Duties: Develop strategic AI initiatives at the foundation; Provide thoughtful business leadership and work collaboratively to develop and advance short and long-term goals, priorities, and strategies for the AI initiatives; Provide subject matter expertise, strategic counsel and operational insights to the AI and LLM efforts across the foundation; Establish trusted relationships with internal/external entities, such as academic institutions and industry, to drive discussions and provide strategic guidance related to their AI business objectives; Collaborate with topic experts, field partners, and in-country policy makers to build the right solutions to their most important problems
Requirements: PhD in machine learning, natural language processing, or computational linguistics, with 15 years of professional experience; Recognized as an expert within and outside of the organization in the field of artificial intelligence; Demonstrable strong ties to industry applications, including technology startups, established affiliate positions within corporation such as Microsoft Research, Nvidia, Amazon, or Google; Track record of scientific, peer-reviewed publications including publications in a top-tier ML/NLP conference (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML), and/or patented inventions; Strong ability to think of projects at the multi-year scale, while also engaging with rapidly moving projects and flexible explorations; Proficiency in writing code for DL/ML/AI applications, i.e., Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Java, JAX, etc