Head of Data & AI — Education Innovation Leader

Advanced Education Research & Development Fund; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and comprehensiveメリ

Mission-driven culture

Inclusive and diverse workplace

Job summary

AugmentED, an AERDF-supported AI and education initiative, seeks a Head of Data + AI to lead the strategy and technical foundations powering our research and products. Build reusable data models, infrastructure, and AI frameworks, and lead collaborations with university partners.

This hands-on technical leader role requires deep AI/data science expertise, a history of turning research into reusable technologies, and a passion for expanding educational opportunity through scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a data scientist or applied AI/ML leader who has designed and deployed data models, algorithms, and AI systems that power real-world products.
• Hands-on contributor and technical leader guiding a distributed network of researchers, engineers, and technical contributors.
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, AI, statistics, and modern data infrastructure, with experience designing extensible data architectures and technical foundations for future growth.
• Experience partnering with software engineering teams to productionize AI and data science work, ensuring models integrate into scalable, reliable user-facing products.
• Experience building and maintaining technical foundations that enable collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams, including defining requirements, communicating technical constraints, and aligning stakeholders around a shared technical vision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of reusable data modeling approaches and robust technical infrastructure.
• Build out the shared libraries, models, and open-source frameworks upon which our educational prototypes are built.
• Transform bespoke or lab-based implementations into generalizable solutions across multiple products.
• Identify new technical approaches that de-risk innovation and accelerate the R&D process.
• Ensure data science initiatives accelerate our shared goals and technical consistency across the AugmentED ecosystem.
• Partner closely with the engineering team to integrate research-grade models into the core AugmentED platform.
• Ensure modular and deployable data modeling within the platform infrastructure.

Skills

Data science leadership

AI deployment

Data modeling

Collaboration across teams

Productionizing ML

Strategic thinking

Job description

AugmentED, an AERDF-supported AI and education initiative, seeks a Head of Data + AI to lead the strategy and technical foundations powering our research and products. Build reusable data models, infrastructure, and AI frameworks, and lead collaborations with university partners.

This hands-on technical leader role requires deep AI/data science expertise, a history of turning research into reusable technologies, and a passion for expanding educational opportunity through scalable platforms.