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Research Manager - Toronto

@ Skyfall AI

Toronto, Ontario

HybridFull-time7+ years experience
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Overview

Skyfall AI is hiring a Research Manager in Toronto to lead a team of research scientists on agentic AI, including agent planning, reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems. The role sets research strategy, tracks the state of the art and represents Skyfall in the external AI community. Candidates need a PhD or 7+ years of research experience, and experience managing research scientists and engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Guide research scientists in reinforcement learning, generative models and multi-agent systems
  • Develop and execute the overall research strategy
  • Keep up to date on state of the art research
  • Build relationships with the external AI community

Requirements summary:

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP or related field, or 7+ years industry research experience
  • Experience leading research projects
  • Experience managing research scientists and engineers
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and transformer-based generative AI
  • Active member of the AI research community

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Job details

SeniorityManager
Experience7+ years
Manages peopleYes
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
EducationDoctorate (preferred)
Fields of studyComputer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

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Job description

Research Manager at Skyfall AI

Job Overview:

Skyfall AI is seeking a Research Manager to join our team to work on our journey towards an autonomous enterprise. As a Research Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing the state of the art in models for Agentic AI, and will help guide the research team in areas such as agent planning, reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems.

Research Manager Responsibilities:

  • Guide a team of research scientists in areas such as reinforcement learning, generative models (LLM, Diffusion etc) and multi agent systems

  • Help develop and execute the overall research strategy which aligns with Skyfall’s mission

  • Keep up to date on the state of the art in the areas of research relevant to the organization

  • Grow and maintain relationships with the external AI community in order to project Skyfall as a leader in the field

Minimum Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP or related field (preferred) or at least 7+ years industry experience in a research capacity

  • Experience in leading research projects

  • Experience managing teams of both research scientists and engineers

  • Hands on experience with Large Language Models and other transformer based generative AI methods

  • An active member of the AI research community

  • Proven leadership in the AI community

Location - Toronto

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