Head of Research

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$111,944 U.S. median for this role

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+13.7% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Head of Research San Francisco | OnSite ABOUT TRAVERSE Traverse is a research data lab building reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI labs. We focus on the non-deterministic, taste-dependent work that makes up most of the economy and that nobody else has figured out how to train models on. We work directly with the labs building the most capable models on earth as a thought partner. Backed by Y Combinator. ABOUT THE ROLE As Head of Research, you will own the entire research function at Traverse, from setting the agenda and publishing papers to building benchmarks and leading the team that figures out how to train AI on the hardest problems in the world. The core challenge is that most of the economy runs on work where "good" is subjective, feedback is delayed, and expertise takes decades to develop. Medicine, law, negotiation, engineering: none of these domains have neat reward signals, and figuring out how to encode what mastery looks like in these fields and turn that into RL environments that actually make models better is an open research problem. You'll be the person solving it. You'll work directly with the frontier labs we partner with, understand their post-training pipelines, and co-design environments that reflect real hypotheses about how intelligence develops in a given domain. You'll publish novel work that establishes Traverse as a research institution, not just a data vendor. We're looking for someone with serious research depth in ML and a track record of publishing at top venues,

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