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VP of Research, Machine Learning
Posted: 07/17/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 32121
Job Location: Remote
Industry: SOFT - Software Companies
Job Description
Job Title: VP of Research, Machine Learning
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire VP of Research, Machine Learning with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire VP of Research, Machine Learning with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
- You will own the research and intelligence direction of this system. Your role is to define how AI reasons, evaluates, and improves in a product used with high frequency.
Job Responsibilities:
- Set and evolve the research direction for our client’s core intelligence, including context representation, memory, reasoning, planning, and orchestration.
- Decide when to design new model architectures versus adapting or leveraging frontier open-source or commercial models.
- Define evaluation frameworks that measure real-world usefulness, robustness, safety, and long-term behavior – not benchmark vanity.
- Own alignment, safety, and guardrail strategy as first-class product concerns
- Guide exploration of frontier techniques such as:
- retrieval-augmented training
- mixture-of-experts
- distillation
- multi-agent orchestration
- multimodal systems
- Shape early product intelligence direction in close partnership with product and application engineering.
- Set the technical bar for research rigor, judgment, and taste across the organization.
Job Qualifications:
- Deep experience building or evolving real machine learning systems used in production.
- Strong technical judgment around model behavior, failure modes, and long-horizon trade-offs.
- A builder’s mindset: you care about systems that work in the real world, not just ideas.
- Comfortable making irreversible or high-impact decisions with incomplete information.
- Obsession with evaluation, correctness, and how systems behave over time.
- High ownership mentality — you operate as a founder, not a manager.
- Python
- PyTorch / JAX
- GPU-based training and inference system
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Pay Range: Market Rate
- Location: Fully Remote.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.