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title: "Founding AI Research Lead - Agentic AI Lab"
company: "Fabrion"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/fabrion"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/fabrion-founding-ai-research-lead-agentic-ai-lab-c7ea7d0e-69ee-4679-9acc-522093d98a40"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fabrion/69051a5b-0368-4640-8e9e-1a09a5b233a2"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco Bay Area"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["pytorch"]
date_posted: 2026-09-06T19:51:48.350Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-19T22:07:57.448Z
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# Founding AI Research Lead - Agentic AI Lab

**Fabrion** · San Francisco Bay Area

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fabrion/69051a5b-0368-4640-8e9e-1a09a5b233a2

## About Fabrion

Transform complex industrial value chains with AI. Fabrion accelerates AI adoption across multi-tier value chains for industrial manufacturers, delivering step-change gains in operating speed and resilience.

## About the role

**Founding AI Research Lead - Agentic AI Lab**

*San Francisco Bay Area | Full time*

Backed by 8VC, we are building a world-class team to tackle one of industry's most critical problems: trusted AI for enterprise operations.

**About the Role**

Fabrion is designing the future of enterprise AI infrastructure, grounded in agents, knowledge graphs, and multi-tenant governance. We are working on research inside the Agentic AI Lab to train and evaluate specialized models for mission-critical enterprise work.

The direction is specific and ambitious. We share the full thesis under NDA during the interview process. What we can say here: the program has committed design partners with production data access, dedicated compute, a benchmark-first plan with clear go and no-go gates, and a platform team that has already built the governance and serving layer your models will run behind.

This is full-cycle research: problem formulation, data, training, evaluation, and deployment, with your name on the results.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Own the research agenda: model and training design, evaluation protocol, and the publication plan

- Take models from public benchmark results to live customer shadow deployments, with gates you define and defend

- Set the benchmark discipline: strong baselines first, published comparables cited, results that survive scrutiny

- Lead and grow a small team (ML engineer, data engineer, contractors) and pair closely with the founders and platform team

- Write technical plans internally and papers externally when results warrant it**Desired Experience**

- Hands-on experience training sequence models, owning the tokenizer, the training loop, and the evaluation, not only fine-tuning through APIs

- Strong background in at least two of: reinforcement learning (especially offline and imitation settings), sequence decision modeling, structured or constrained generation, learning from event and log data

- A track record of shipping research into a product or landing a rigorous benchmark result

- PhD in machine learning or a closely related field, or an equivalent research record

- Preferred Tech Stack

- PyTorch, the Hugging Face ecosystem, experiment tracking and reproducible training pipelines, modern cloud data warehouses, evaluation harness engineering**Soft Skills & Mindset**

- Comfortable as the most senior researcher in the room: setting direction under ambiguity and writing decisions down

- Rigor over hype: you distrust your own results until the baselines agree

- A teacher's instinct: part of this role is turning strong engineers into researchers**Why This Role Matters**

We believe specialized models built on governed enterprise data can run real, multi-billion-dollar workflows. Your work will not be buried in research reports. It will be benchmarked in public, deployed to real customers, and activated by hundreds of thousands of decisions.

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