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Research Management

Leaders who manage research teams, set research agendas, and guide scientific strategy.

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Research Science ManagerDirector, Machine Learning Research
22open jobs
10companies hiring
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Building and leading high-performing research teams across multiple disciplines and geographies

95%

Developing research strategy and long-term technical roadmaps aligned with organizational objectives

93%

Managing cross-functional collaboration between research, product, engineering, and business teams

92%

Translating cutting-edge research findings into product requirements and actionable business strategies

90%

Applying machine learning and statistical methods to solve complex scientific and business problems

89%

Designing and implementing novel evaluation methodologies and metrics for measuring model capabilities

88%

Building and optimizing data pipelines, training pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure

85%

Setting research north star goals and developing challenging long-horizon evaluations

82%

Synthesizing diverse datasets to generate and evaluate scientific hypotheses

76%

Managing autonomy and ensuring productive integration of research outputs into production systems

75%

Conducting causal inference and hypothesis testing in non-randomized or observational settings

75%

Designing and executing controlled studies and natural history analyses for drug development

72%

Navigating regulatory landscape and health authority requirements for drug development

68%
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Developing reinforcement learning and post-training techniques for model improvement

80%

Applying generative modeling and neural network interpretation techniques to scientific discovery

78%

Driving innovation in automated and agentic evaluation methodologies

72%

Implementing human-in-the-loop systems and data annotation workflows

70%
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Mentoring and developing the technical and professional growth of research scientists and engineers

91%

Communicating complex technical concepts and research findings to diverse internal and external stakeholders

89%

Establishing high standards for research quality, velocity, and scientific rigor

86%

Identifying research bottlenecks and pivoting strategy to address emerging challenges

80%

Interfacing with academic and industry partners to advance state-of-the-art capabilities

78%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonhigh
Rmoderate
SQLmoderate
SASlow
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PyTorchmoderate
TensorFlowmoderate
JAXlow
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Drug Discovery Platformsmoderate
High-Performance Computingmoderate
Kuberneteslow
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AlphaFoldmoderate
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Foundation Modelsvery high
Evaluation Metricshigh
Generative Modelinghigh
Natural Language Processinghigh
Reinforcement Learninghigh
RLHFhigh
Supervision Learninghigh
Adversarial Trainingmoderate
Bayesian Inferencemoderate
Causal Inferencemoderate
Computer Visionmoderate
Mechanistic Interpretabilitymoderate
MLOpsmoderate
Model Distillationmoderate
Multimodal Learningmoderate
Transfer Learningmoderate
World Modelsmoderate
Data Flywheellow
Graph Neural Networkslow
Roboticslow
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Open Jobs

22 open Research Management jobs across 10 companies.

Isomorphic Labs2d
Head of Chemistry, Drug Design, Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA·Research & Science
Recursion1w
Vice President, Real World Evidence (RWE)
New York, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah·Research & Science
Waymo1w
Director of AI Foundations, Foundation Model Evaluation & Integration
Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA·Research & Science
Goodfire1w
Applied AI Lead
San Francisco, CA & New York, NY·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs2w
Head of Clinical Sciences
Cambridge, MA·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs2w
Head of Clinical Operations
Cambridge, MA·Research & Science
Nebius2w
Director, Machine Learning Research (Product)
Remote - United States·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs3w
Technical CRO Manager, London, Lausanne
Lausanne; London·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs3w
Team Leader, Medicinal Drug Design, London
London·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs3w
Team / Research Leader, Computational Drug Design, London, Lausanne
Lausanne; London·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs3w
Team / Research Leader (Translational Oncology), London, Lausanne
Lausanne; London·Research & Science
Anthropic3w
Research Operations, Economic Research
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science
Anthropic3w
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science
Anthropic3w
Research Lead, Training Insights
Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·Research & Science
Recursion3w
Director, Computational Biology (Neuroscience)
New York, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah·Research & Science
Recursion3w
Head of Early Discovery
Salt Lake City, Utah·Research & Science
Cerebras Systems1mo
Principal ML Investigator
Sunnyvale, CA·Research & Science
OpenAI6mo
Technical Lead, Safety Research
San Francisco·Research & Science
Perplexity8mo
AI Research Lead
San Francisco·Research & Science
Runway10mo
Applied Research Science Lead, Language
Remote·Research & Science