Kepler AI
Head of AI Research
$400K–$700K
New York City · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years in AI/ML research; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
About the job
Leads Kepler’s AI research agenda, developing reliable agentic systems and research capabilities that ship into financial research workflows.
What you'll do
- Set research priorities and develop agent orchestration, planning, memory, retrieval, and evaluation approaches.
- Deploy research into production and build and lead the research team.
- Publish and represent Kepler, and collaborate with leadership on technical strategy and product direction.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.
- 5+ years in AI/ML research focused on LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, or memory architectures.
- Strong publication record at top venues and experience shipping research to real systems with users.
- Expertise in transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation, or memory-augmented systems; experience leading research teams in high-stakes environments.
Pay
$400K – $700K (base salary not specified); equity offered, amount not stated.
Tools
LLMs, transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation
AI focus
Research and production development of trustworthy agentic AI, including orchestration, planning, memory, retrieval, and evaluation for high-stakes financial research.
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