Director, Forward-Deployed AI Research & Solutions

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to recruit, hire, and develop the forward deployed research team, coaching on technical quality, customer engagement, and career growth.

You will set the technical bar for specs and evaluation frameworks, own capacity planning, partner with AE leadership on deal strategy and pipeline forecasting, and establish team processes and playbooks for discovery and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in applied ML, AI solutions engineering, or research‑facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and develop the forward deployed research team, coaching the team on technical quality, customer engagement, and career growth.
• Set and maintain the technical bar for specifications, evaluation frameworks, and customer deliverables.
• Own SE capacity planning and account coverage; partner with AE leadership on deal strategy, engagement prioritization, and pipeline forecasting.
• Establish team processes and playbooks for discovery, spec development, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead technical conversations on select strategic accounts, including scoping, solution design, and partnership with frontier AI research teams.
• Serve as escalation point for technically complex or high-stakes customer situations.

Skills

Applied Machine Learning

Frontier AI Concepts

Technical Presales Management

Team Development

Revenue Pipeline Goals

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

B.S. in Machine Learning

Tools

Large Language Models

Training Data Pipelines

Evaluation Methodologies

Post-Training Techniques

Reinforcement Learning

Coding Agents

Multimodal Models

Reasoning

Solution Design

Capacity Planning

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to recruit, hire, and develop the forward deployed research team, coaching on technical quality, customer engagement, and career growth.

You will set the technical bar for specs and evaluation frameworks, own capacity planning, partner with AE leadership on deal strategy and pipeline forecasting, and establish team processes and playbooks for discovery and knowledge sharing.