Executive Director, Frontier AI

Scorpion Therapeutics; United States; On-site; USD 304,000 - 411,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Bonus/incentive

Stock-based incentives

Flexible work

Time off

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in the United States seeks an Executive Director, Frontier AI to lead the strategy and roadmap for frontier AI initiatives across R&D, operations, and commercial functions. You will partner with CDT and other teams to translate cutting-edge research into scalable capabilities.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and the development of enterprise roadmaps, with a focus on practical impact, collaboration with academic partners, and delivering measurable

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree with frontier AI experience or Master’s degree with extensive frontier AI background.
• 6 years managerial experience leading teams and programs.

Responsibilities

• Define frontier AI strategy and roadmap aligned to business, scientific, and technology priorities.
• Drive scalable frontier AI capabilities with measurable impact across priority use cases.
• Govern frontier AI activities with security, privacy, regulatory, model-risk governance.
• Build enterprise roadmap translating AI research into scalable capabilities for R&D and operations.
• Oversee PoC, pilot, and production pathways with governance and lifecycle management.

Skills

Frontier AI leadership

Strategy development

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Regulatory and governance knowledge

Education

Doctorate degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree in a relevant field

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Executive Director, Frontier AI

Responsibilities

• Lead frontier AI strategy and roadmap aligned to business, scientific, and technology priorities.
• Drive scalable frontier AI capabilities with measurable impact across priority use cases.
• Prioritize portfolio and investment recommendations across reinforcement learning, multi-modal AI, model architectures, academic partnerships, and quantum AI/ML.
• Govern frontier AI activities (responsible AI, privacy, regulatory, model-risk) in partnership with CDT for security, adversarial resilience, model assurance, and high-risk deployment governance.
• Build and maintain an enterprise roadmap translating emerging AI research into scalable capabilities for R&D, Operations, Commercial, and corporate functions.
• Lead development and application of frontier AI capabilities (foundation models, multi-modal systems, simulation-based learning, reinforcement learning).
• Identify and prioritize high-impact use cases to improve scientific discovery, decision-making, productivity, and operational performance.
• Establish technical standards for model evaluation, experimentation, benchmarking, validation, and production readiness.
• Oversee PoC, pilot, and production pathways with appropriate governance, monitoring, lifecycle management, and joint reviews with CDT.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 6 years frontier AI experience OR Master’s degree and 10 years OR Bachelor’s degree and 12 years.
• 6 years managerial experience managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams/projects/programs/resource allocation.

Preferred

• Define/lead frontier AI strategy; build enterprise roadmap; lead frontier AI development; identify high-impact use cases.
• Partner across AI platform, data engineering, architecture, product, domain teams, and CDT.
• Develop external academic research partnership strategy.
• Evaluate quantum AI/ML opportunities; communicate strategy/progress/risks; build frontier AI organization.

Benefits

• Expected U.S. annual salary range (excluding Puerto Rico): $303,534–$410,664.
• Total Rewards Plan (health/welfare, retirement savings, bonus/incentive, stock-based long-term incentives, time-off, flexible work where possible).