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VP, Research

As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale is dedicated to advancing the progress of generative AI, with a focus around frontier evaluations, the science of data around posttraining, agentic applications, tr

Company

Scale AI

Location

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-01T20:25:00+00:00

Scale AI is hiring a VP of Research to lead its ML Research function, spanning evaluation, agents, post-training, reasoning, and the safety and alignment of frontier systems. The role covers roadmap and delivery ownership, building a global research team, working directly with Fortune 100 customers and go-to-market colleagues, and representing research in headcount and budget planning. The posting asks for a record of leading ML research teams in high-growth settings, comfort making technical and business tradeoffs, and credibility in product engineering, infrastructure or agent systems.