Omnifold
Head of Research
San Francisco HQ · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified; first-line or second-line management experience required. The role is to scale a team from 5–20 researchers.
- Education
- PhD in CS theory, statistics, econometrics, operations research / systems engineering, math, or theoretical physics
About the job
Lead Omnifold’s research team in building forecasting, optimization, and control systems focused on supply chain use cases.
What they ask for
- Background in ML foundations, such as a PhD in CS theory, statistics, econometrics, operations research / systems engineering, math, or theoretical physics
- Hands-on experience training and deploying production ML models
- First-line or second-line management experience
Nice to have
- Experience with LLM infrastructure, including inference, fine-tuning, or RL
- Success in environments with quantitative models, such as quant research funds, ranking, or ads
Tools
ML, LLM
AI focus
Train frontier models and build systems for prediction, optimization, and control, with a focus on supply chain use cases.
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