Hiring: Founding AI Research Lead - Agentic AI Lab Company: Fabrion Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 17:59:19 Employment Type: Full time Target Skills & Keywords: Agentic AI, Sequence Models, Reinforcement Learning, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Knowledge Graphs, Multi-Tenant Governance, Benchmarking, Evaluation Harness, Enterprise AI Experience: - Hands-on experience training sequence models, owning the tokenizer, the training loop, and the evaluation, not only fine-tuning through APIs - Strong background in at least two of: reinforcement learning (especially offline and imitation settings), sequence decision modeling, structured or constrained generation, learning from event and log data - A track record of shipping research into a product or landing a rigorous benchmark result - PhD in machine learning or a closely related field, or an equivalent research record Required Skills: - Full-cycle research: problem formulation, data, training, evaluation, and deployment - Model and training design, evaluation protocol, and publication planning - Taking models from public benchmark results to live customer shadow deployments - Setting benchmark discipline: strong baselines, published comparables, results that survive scrutiny - Leading and growing a small team (ML engineer, data engineer, contractors) - Writing technical plans internally and papers externally - PyTorch, Hugging Face ecosystem, experiment tracking, reproducible training pipelines, modern cloud data warehouses, evaluation harness engineering Qualifications: - Comfortable as the most senior researcher in the room: setting direction under ambiguity and writing decisions down - Rigor over hype: distrusts own results until baselines agree - A teacher's instinct: turning strong engineers into researchers - Backed by 8VC, building trusted AI for enterprise operations - Committed design partners with production data access, dedicated compute, benchmark-first plan with clear go/no-go gates Compensation: Not specified Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!