Snorkel AI

Director, Research - Human Data Systems

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Director

Sponsorship not specified$300k-$400kDetected 22 days ago

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About the role

The Research-to-Product Bridge: Act as the primary link between Research, Product, and Engineering.
You will oversee the development of experimental POCs to improve workflow efficiencies and ensure these innovations are successfully hardened and integrated into the platform

the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems.
We work with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before.
Anticipate the next bottlenecks in the AI data (e.g., automated RLHF, agentic evaluation, or specialized model alignment) and pivot the team to develop the programmatic solutions that address them
Partner with the Operations team to validate research-driven workflows in real-world production environments, ensuring they scale across diverse and complex domain-specific tasks.
Strategic Roadmapping: Anticipate the next bottlenecks in the AI data (e.g., automated RLHF, agentic evaluation, or specialized model alignment) and pivot the team to develop the programmatic solutions that address them
Operational Excellence: Partner with the Operations team to validate research-driven workflows in real-world production environments, ensuring they scale across diverse and complex domain-specific tasks.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

A proven track record of thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, comfortable managing competing priorities across cross-functional stakeholders

Experience with data annotation workflows and/or building internal tooling for them
As a member of our team, you'll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success.
Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
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We are looking for a Director of Research to lead a team focused on data-centric research.
Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly-offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth.

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