Director, Applied Machine Learning (San Francisco)

About the Role As Director of Applied ML, you'll lead the function that sits at the intersection of frontier AI research and enterprise-scale delivery. You'll own three core pillars: post-training and RL environments, scaled post-training infrastructure, and strategic project support across our lab partnerships. You think like an applied researcher, lead like an operator, and move fluidly between technical depth and client‑facing strategy. You'll build and grow a team, set the technical standar…