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Christian & Timbers · 2 weeks ago

Chief AI Officer (CAIO)

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

12+ years exp

Christian & Timbers is a global AI company advancing foundational models, reinforcement learning, and multimodal architectures at enterprise scale. The Chief AI Officer (CAIO) will lead scientific direction, oversee model research, and shape global standards for AI safety and governance.

B2BBusiness DevelopmentConsulting

Responsibilities

Foundation Model Research : Advance transformer-based architectures, LLM pre-training and fine-tuning, multimodal AI, and agent-driven frameworks

Reinforcement Learning : Scale RLHF and optimization strategies to improve robustness, alignment, and system reliability

Infrastructure Leadership : Architect distributed training pipelines and optimize large-scale compute environments using GPUs, TPUs, and emerging accelerators

AI Safety & Compliance : Develop frameworks for interpretability, adversarial robustness, bias detection, and alignment with global regulation

Scientific Leadership : Publish in leading AI conferences, represent the company in international forums, and establish it as a thought leader in global AI

Qualification

PhD in MLAI research experienceTransformer architecturesDistributed optimizationReinforcement learningLarge-scale data pipelinesAI safety frameworksPublication recordTeam buildingLeadership skills