Snorkel AI

Technology

Director,Research-Evaluation&Training

$220–330k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Director, Research - Evaluation & Training at Snorkel AI. Skills: Data-centric research, Model evaluation, Data valuation. Own multi-quarter roadmap. Synthesize trends from model-failure analysis”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Error analysis; Model failure analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years in applied AI, ML, or research, 4+ years managing technical teams, SQL proficiency

Nice to Have

Familiarity with data valuation or data attribution research, Experience working with frontier labs, Experience with public benchmarks, Experience with commercial AI data/eval products

What You'll Do.

Own multi-quarter roadmap

Synthesize trends from model-failure analysis

Share trends into recommendations

Quantify how Snorkel data improves model performance

Lead and grow team of researchers

Set high bar for quality

Set high bar for rigor

Set high bar for speed of execution

Act as bridge between findings and Product

Act as bridge between findings and GTM

Act as bridge between findings and customers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Bridge findings to Product; Bridge findings to GTM; Bridge findings to customers

Communication Scope

Make technical results legible; Make technical results persuasive

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! Snorkel AI came out of the Stanford AI lab and is built on the principle that data development is the core of AI. For years, we have pioneered data-centric methods that power the world’s most sophisticated AI implementations from top enterprises to frontier AI labs. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Research to lead a team focused on data-centric research. About the Role We're looking for a manager to lead a team of researchers to focus on data evaluation, error analysis and data valuation methods to predict model performance. This team is responsible for showcasing the value and quality of Snorkel’s data for model training and evaluation, understanding where today's frontier models fall short, and turning that understanding into a point of view on what benchmarks and datasets these models will benefit from. You and your team will be responsible for Snorkel’s data design flywheel by analyzing model failures, finding capability and skill gaps in current models, suggesting the next benchmarks to invest in and then proving the value of this data for our customers. Main Responsibilities Own a multi-quarter roadmap centered on novel evaluation, error analysis,

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