Head of Artificial Intelligence

Samson Rose has been exclusively engaged by a well-funded AI mental health company to help them find a Head of AI to lead their AI efforts. This role is crucial to the business, and the person they hire will lead the building of the first clinically integrated therapy LLMs! The product/service is impactful and is making mental healthcare accessible and convenient to the masses. The LLM will treat patients under the supervision and instructions of a clinician, allowing for superior clinical outcomes than a clinician alone could deliver. Seasoned AI and healthcare entrepreneurs with a track record of creating and leading unicorns to successful exits founded the company, and they have the who-is-who of psychology also involved.

Are you fascinated by the nexus of AI research and practical application? Do you harbor a deep-seated passion for mental health innovation? If you answered yes to these questions then this is the role for you.

We're inviting passionate AI leaders who stand at the dynamic intersection of research and application and have a fervent desire to make an impact in mental health. Ideal candidates bring a deep understanding and practical experience with modern LLM architectures, training, fine-tuning, and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies, as well as experience with fundamental ML methods and software engineering. This role is a perfect fit for those comfortable navigating both research-oriented and hands-on engineering.

In this role, you will need to lead, motivate, and build the right multi-disciplinary processes with data scientists, software/ML engineers, data curators, product managers, and psychologists.

The person we are looking for has:

• Rapid Prototyping Skills: Experience quickly developing new models through supervised fine-tuning or equivalent methodologies. As the team is small, you must be highly effective in a hands-on capacity (for now).
• RLHF & Feedback Expertise: In addition to core ML & Stats & engineering fundamentals, some experience with RLHF and related methodologies and automatic and red-teaming efforts.
• Data Engineering and Production: Responsibility for deploying models into production and professional software development standards.
• Leadership: Ability to lead and influence complex multidisciplinary processes at the intersection of RLHF/feedback mechanisms, red-teaming, psychology, data curation, and data infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Development: Drive the creation of LLMs, collaborating with software and product teams to bring innovative solutions to market.
• Model Fine-Tuning: Enhance model performance through cutting-edge fine-tuning techniques to improve accuracy, empathy, and therapeutic efficacy and, when necessary, train models from scratch.
• Feedback-Process Creation: You will be in charge of creating the best processes around AI development, including how we red-team and give human feedback, how these get incorporated into models, how we structure data, and more.
• Collaboration with Healthcare Professionals: Ensure their AI aligns with psychotherapeutic best practices through direct collaboration with the field's experts.
• Ethics and Privacy: Commit to the highest ethical standards, championing privacy and bias-elimination in our AI models.

Please apply if this seems of interest and you meet the requirements. Unfortunately, the client is not in a position to sponsor visas at this time due to their early stage.