Head of Research (AI)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Research (AI) based in Brazil.

• This is a hands-on scientific leadership role focused on advancing foundation models for relational and graph-structured data.
• You will define the research vision, raise the technical bar, and lead work that turns cutting-edge AI research into production-ready capabilities.
• The role spans graph learning, representation learning, self-supervised methods, large-scale modeling, and temporal generalization.
• You will combine deep technical expertise with people leadership, mentoring research scientists and engineers while shaping a rigorous research culture.
• Your work will directly support high-stakes enterprise applications where relationships between entities are critical to accurate decision-making.
• You will collaborate closely with data, engineering, MLOps, product, and commercial teams to move research from hypotheses and prototypes into measurable business impact.
• The environment values scientific rigor, experimentation, technical ownership, reproducibility, and research that delivers meaningful results in production.