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Christian & Timbers · 22 hours ago

VP AI

California, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

Christian & Timbers is a company that develops artificial intelligence platforms serving as the computational backbone for innovation. They are seeking a Senior Vice President of AI to direct global strategy and oversee research execution and cross-functional AI programs, ensuring that breakthroughs in research translate into commercial and industrial outcomes.

B2BBusiness DevelopmentConsulting

Responsibilities

Guide the design of new model architectures focused on multimodality, reasoning, and memory efficiency

Direct benchmark initiatives in model interpretability, low-latency inference, and agentic orchestration

Maintain alignment between applied research and the company’s long-term AI roadmap

Collaborate with infrastructure leaders to optimize large-scale model training through data pipeline design, distributed compute planning, and hardware utilization metrics

Establish frameworks that balance performance, cost, and environmental sustainability

Oversee the deployment of AI systems into enterprise and government solutions across cybersecurity, automation, and analytics

Build cross-functional collaboration between AI research and product delivery teams to ensure reliability and scalability

Develop an international research network connecting academic partnerships, internal labs, and external research alliances

Recruit and mentor high-impact scientists and engineers specializing in large-scale AI systems

Define principles for responsible AI development, focusing on transparency, bias mitigation, and interpretability

Engage with policy and standards organizations to advance global AI governance frameworks

Qualification

AI strategy developmentModel architecture designDistributed training optimizationCross-functional team leadershipLarge-scale AI systemsModel evaluation pipelinesData pipeline designMentoring scientistsInternational research collaborationResponsible AI principles