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Christian & Timbers · 1 week ago

SVP AI

California, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

Christian & Timbers is a company that develops artificial intelligence platforms serving various sectors. They are seeking a Senior Vice President of AI to direct global strategy, research execution, and cross-functional AI programs, ensuring the integration of research breakthroughs into commercial and industrial applications.

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 optimizationLarge-scale AI systemsCross-functional team leadershipPhD in computer scienceApplied mathematicsMachine learning researchModel evaluation pipelinesAI governance principles