Head of Research

Raydar is recruiting for an early-stage AI company building reinforcement learning environments and trajectory datasets for training frontier models. The Head of Research will set the applied research roadmap, grow and lead the research team, work with customer research teams, and conduct hands-on research to improve model capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Set research priorities, allocate resources and own the applied research roadmap
• Hire and grow the research team, with at least four additional researchers planned
• Work directly with customer labs on reinforcement learning and post-training problems
• Run hands-on experiments and improve environments, datasets and trajectories
• Partner with engineering, delivery and go-to-market teams to turn research into production-ready deliverables