Machine Learning Lead (LLM)

The role

You will lead a small team of senior data scientists building LLM-powered research and analysis tools. You will own the roadmap, develop the team, and build evaluation infrastructure and optimization systems for AI products.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of senior data scientists
• Own the team roadmap with senior leadership
• Set the bar for AI systems and build evaluation infrastructure
• Lead the training and calibration of judge models
• Build systems to automatically optimize context, prompts, retrieval, and agent workflows
• Guide decisions on using off-the-shelf models or fine-tuning open-weight models
• Partner with engineering and political strategists to connect model work to the product
• Balance rigor with pragmatism regarding deadlines and users
• Communicate results and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in ML, data science, or applied statistics
• 1+ years leading a team as a manager or tech lead
• Shipped ML or LLM-powered features to production
• Strong grounding in applied statistics
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or similar)
• Comfortable with cloud and production tooling

Nice to have

• Good product instincts
• Energized by ambiguous problems

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401k match
• 20 weeks paid parental leave
• fertility and family-building support through Maven Clinic
• unlimited PTO

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States

About the company

Blue Rose Research builds data and AI tools that help Democrats win elections and advance progressive causes. They are a small, mission-driven team of engineers, data scientists, and political strategists.