Head of AI Research

The role

You will define the research agenda and lead research across agentic systems, memory architectures, retrieval mechanisms, and evaluation frameworks. Your work will deploy to production systems used by top financial institutions.

What you will do

• Define the research agenda
• Pioneer agentic architectures
• Advance memory and retrieval
• Build evaluation frameworks
• Ship research to production
• Build and lead the research team
• Publish and represent Kepler
• Collaborate with leadership

Required qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field
• 5+ years in AI/ML research with focus on LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, or memory architectures
• Strong track record at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL)
• Shipped research to real systems with real users
• Expertise in transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation, or memory-augmented systems
• Experience building and leading research teams in high-stakes environments
• Ability to identify problems that are both technically interesting and practically important
• Strong communicator who can translate complex research into clear implications for product and business

Nice to have

• Intellectually humble

Benefits

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
• HSA maxed by the company to the IRS limit
• Automatic coverage for life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Daily lunch in office
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Development environment budget
• Build anything budget
• Learning budget
• Open publication policy
• Dedicated GPU capacity
• Conference budget
• Academic partnerships

About the company

Kepler is an agent harness and infrastructure layer that makes AI outputs reliable, traceable, and verifiable. The founding team includes former Palantir and Meta engineers.