Director, Research - Human Data Systems

Snorkel AI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 250,000 - 320,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving","Mentoring"]

Lead a team of applied researchers focused on data-centric AI research, bridging frontier academic work with production-ready AI at scale. Manage recruitment, set strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive data-centric techniques for foundation models while hands-on coding and client-facing engagements.

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6 months ago

Director, Research - Human Data Systems

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Job Summary

Lead a team of applied researchers focused on data-centric AI research, bridging frontier academic work with production-ready AI at scale. Manage recruitment, set strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive data-centric techniques for foundation models while hands-on coding and client-facing engagements.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Team Building & Leadership: Recruit for and lead a team of applied researchers, setting the team’s culture and setting a high standard for quality and velocity
  • •Frontier Data Research: Collaborate with academic and industry-leading AI labs to define the data-centric techniques that will help power the next generation of foundation models
  • •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 Go-to-Market, Operations and Product teams to enhance current state and drive the roadmap for what the company will focus on next

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 320,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in applied AI, research or machine learning roles, with at least 4+ years of experience managing technical teams
  • •A player coach who is willing to be hands-on with coding, research, customer-facing engagements
  • •A proven track record of thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, comfortable managing competing priorities across cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and GTM
  • •Enjoys solving real-world problems in the data space and bridging research and production
  • •Strong, practical experience working with LLMs, agentic workflow
Experience:5+ yearsAIMachine learningResearch
Skills:LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLMsAgentic workflowData annotationPythonAPIs

Company Brief

Snorkel AI
Develops a programmatic data labeling platform and tools to accelerate machine learning by enabling teams to generate, manage, and maintain training datasets through weak supervision and automations.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Founded: 2019
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