Research Team Lead

Serve AI is building a deterministic enterprise intelligence platform that provides fast, traceable, and auditable answers for regulated, security-conscious, and mission-critical environments. The Research Team Lead will lead applied research in schema discovery, semantic alignment, query understanding, and reliable artifact generation while establishing research discipline, growing the team, and translating validated methods into production capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain a research roadmap tied to product risks and measurable platform outcomes
• Lead work on schema matching, ontology alignment, entity resolution, query intent, confidence calibration, and human in the loop review
• Establish evaluation protocols, baselines, ablations, decision criteria, and reproducibility standards before major experiments begin
• Separate model quality from compiler, data quality, and product failures so each problem reaches the right owner
• Partner with engineering to convert validated methods into versioned, observable production components
• Preserve Serve AI's governance model: AI can recommend mappings or artifacts, but administrative state changes require explicit approval through the control plane
• Recruit, coach, and manage a focused team that may include research engineers, scientists, and student researchers
• Communicate results candidly, including negative findings, limitations, and decisions to stop work