lab director - AI Infrastructure

European Tech Recruit; Les Ulis; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruiting firm is hiring a Lab Director to oversee an AI Infrastructure R&D Lab in Paris. The role involves defining R&D strategies, mentoring a technical team, and driving AI initiatives. Candidates should have proven leadership experience and a background in scalable AI systems. Fluency in English is required, and French is a plus. This full-time position in the engineering and research domain offers opportunities to impact the future of AI.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of technical teams (10+ members).
• Experience in AI startups or research institutes.
• Fluent in English; French is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define the R&D strategy for AI infrastructure.
• Lead projects in distributed parallelism and numerical computing.
• Build and mentor a high-performing research team.

Skills

Leadership of high-impact technical teams

Scalable AI platform delivery or research contributions

Fluent in English

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a visionary Lab Director to lead a world-class AI Infrastructure R&D Lab in Paris, focused on large-scale model training and inference systems. You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers and engineers, collaborate across global R&D hubs, and influence the future of scalable AI systems at industrial and academic levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the R&D strategy and long-term innovation roadmap for large-scale AI infrastructure.
• Lead cutting-edge projects in distributed parallelism, numerical computing, and automatic graph scheduling.
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing technical research team.
• Represent the lab at top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, MLSys, OSDI, SC).
• Drive open-source initiatives and contribute to global AI standardisation efforts.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of high-impact technical teams (10+ members).
• Track record in scalable AI platform delivery or research contributions in LLM systems.
• Experience in industry-leading tech companies, AI startups, or research institutes.
• Fluent in English; French is advantageous.

Preferred

• Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, OSDI, SOSP, MLSys, or TPDS.
• Leadership experience in open-source or industrial-scale LLM projects.
• Familiarity with GPU/NPU co-design and heterogeneous system optimisation.

In accordance with local employment laws, applicants must have current, valid authorisation to work in Germany at the time of application. We are unable to sponsor employment visas for this role. Applications from individuals without existing work authorisation for Germany cannot be considered.

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Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Research

Industries

• Telecommunications and Semiconductor Manufacturing

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