Remote Frontier AI Research Director

EPAM Systems; San Francisco (CA); A distancia; USD 250.000 - 325.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical Insurance

401(k) Match

Paid Time Off

LinkedIn Learning

Descripción de la vacante

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Director for Frontier AI Research to bridge research and delivery across evaluations, RL environments, and training data. The role blends research, architecture, and technical sales while staying technically hands-on during early pilots.

You will translate research goals into concrete specifications, design rigorous evaluation strategies, and collaborate with researchers and customers to craft credible, scalable solutions.

Formación

• Significant experience in machine learning, AI research, or research engineering.
• Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks, LLM APIs, and evaluation tooling.
• Ability to translate research goals into structured experiments and delivery plans.

Responsabilidades

• Engage with researchers, engineers, and leaders to understand objectives in model training, post-training, and evaluation.
• Translate research goals into explicit target capabilities, failure modes, and success criteria for customers and teams.
• Design evaluation approaches, task taxonomies, benchmarks, rubrics, and graders; analyze outputs for improvements.
• Architect RL environments, reward functions, and verifiers with robust signals and mitigations.
• Create training data programs (SFT, RLHF) with clear distributions and quality standards.
• Convert customer needs into repeatable Frontier AI offerings and assets.
• Support sellers with technical SME input from discovery to solution design.
• Translate requirements into clear specifications for delivery teams.

Conocimientos

ML/AI research

Python

LLM APIs

Evaluation tooling

Technical communication

Educación

Advanced degree in CS/ML/AI or equivalent

Herramientas

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLM APIs

Descripción del empleo

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Director for Frontier AI Research to bridge research and delivery across evaluations, RL environments, and training data. The role blends research, architecture, and technical sales while staying technically hands-on during early pilots.

You will translate research goals into concrete specifications, design rigorous evaluation strategies, and collaborate with researchers and customers to craft credible, scalable solutions.