Head of AI/ML R&D & Evaluation

Xplor; Oregon; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplor in Oregon seeks a Head of AI/ML R&D to determine, with evidence, how AI systems perform, for whom, and at what cost. You come from data science and ML, building today with AI-native tools and agentic development.

The role is hands-on (≥50% modeling, evals and experiments) and leads a small team, setting methods, reviewing work, and ensuring models are measurable, affordable and trustworthy.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Evaluation science for every agent, set enterprise eval methodology, manage quality signals in telemetry contract, catch regressions before customers.
• Predictive and decision models behind the shared agents, build churn/retention uplift, payment-recovery propensity, demand forecasting, later fraud risk, select appropriate tool per task.
• Model economics, justify routing accuracy and cost per task, drive cost per successful task down through optimization.

Job description

Xplor in Oregon seeks a Head of AI/ML R&D to determine, with evidence, how AI systems perform, for whom, and at what cost. You come from data science and ML, building today with AI-native tools and agentic development.

The role is hands-on (≥50% modeling, evals and experiments) and leads a small team, setting methods, reviewing work, and ensuring models are measurable, affordable and trustworthy.