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.