Nubank
AI Research Manager - Machine Learning
Palo Alto
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 3 days ago
Code ReviewMachine LearningNLPLLMsOKRsCadenceResearchExperimental DesignLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- The team works on a portfolio of research bets on a one-to-four-quarter horizon.
- This work compounds into the production capabilities Nubank will depend on.
- Next-generation nuFormer architectures: proprietary transformers that learn from raw transaction sequences and power key production credit decisions
Responsibilities
- moving beyond prediction to the decisions and policies those predictions should drive
- build the conditions, focus, and operating rhythm that researchers do great work.
- Real-world impact is our primary measure of success, but we actively encourage publishing, open-source contribution, and conference presence that build a reputation reflecting the quality of the work and help attract the best researchers.
- Partner closely with senior technical leads who drive architecture and scientific direction, aligning operational execution with the long-term research roadmap so that scientific and operating decisions reinforce each other.
- model sparsification, quantization, distillation, or parallelism and partitioning design.
- This is a dedicated people-management role for a small, high-talent-density team of world-class researchers, partnering closely with senior technical leads who drive the scientific direction.
- Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration.
- Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence-enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process.
- Lead, mentor, and advocate for a team of world-class ML researchers, fostering an environment of psychological safety, high ambition, and rigorous scientific inquiry.
- Attract and retain top-tier research talent in a competitive market, and build a reputation for the team as a place the best researchers want to be.
Nice to have
- Technical depth: This is a management-first role, but deep conceptual familiarity with at least one of our core research areas is highly valued:
- Foundation models & LLMs: pre-training from scratch, scaling laws, training-optimization frameworks, and large GPU-cluster workflows.
- Communication: Exceptional storytelling skills, with a track record of translating complex technical milestones into business impact for senior and C-level audiences.
- Environment: Experience operating in global, distributed teams and navigating the path from foundational research to scalable, production-grade systems.
- Palo Alto, United States
Skills
- pre-training from scratch, scaling laws, training-optimization frameworks, and large GPU-cluster workflows.
- For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
- Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
Compensation
- Own the operating health of the team, including performance, career growth, hiring, and compensation cycles for elite individual contributors who often operate at staff-and-above technical depth.
Benefits
- Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits.
- Own the operating health of the team, including performance, career growth, hiring, and compensation cycles for elite individual contributors who often operate at staff-and-above technical depth.
- As AI Research Manager, you will own the operating health and execution of Nubank's ML research agenda.
- Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
- Medical Insurance
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance and AD&D
Company info
- building the intelligence layer of one of the world's largest digital banks.
- You'll work alongside strong ML researchers, with the data, compute, and executive backing to pursue genuinely ambitious bets, and to see those bets reach more than 130 million customers.
- Sustaining a long-term agenda in a fast-moving company means deliberately creating the space for rigorous, multi-quarter work, so the team can pursue ambitious bets instead of being fully absorbed by short-term applied demands.
- You lead brilliant, highly autonomous researchers without micromanaging, and you know what it takes to sustain an ambitious, long-horizon research agenda inside a fast-moving company.
- Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
- The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.
- Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers' complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency.
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