VP of AI Research and Development

Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Trilogy. Have you got what it takes?

Become the World's Leading Expert in Bleeding-Edge AI

Tired of producing AI strategies that never see real implementation? We're seeking technical pioneers to shape how 150+ enterprise software companies harness frontier AI technologies. Report directly to our technical founder/CEO, with unlimited freedom to explore and experiment. No management overhead. No bureaucracy. Just pure technical innovation.

Your mission: conduct groundbreaking AI research that transforms how enterprises build software. Working independently, you'll explore areas like:

• Analyzing AI-enabled IDEs for CRUD application code generation
• Benchmarking code generation capabilities across frontier models
• Implementing and analyzing RAG strategies for optimal document retrieval
• Evaluating vector embeddings and distance algorithms across multi-modal documents
• Conducting performance analysis of vector datastores for scale, accuracy, and latency
  
  

Build in public through daily blog posts and Twitter updates, sharing your experiments, results, and insights in real-time. Your controversial, differentiated viewpoints won't just be tolerated – they'll be celebrated.

If you're passionate about pushing AI boundaries through rigorous technical experimentation and eager to share your discoveries openly with the community – we want to talk to you.

Apply now to help shape the future of enterprise AI implementation.

What You Will Be Doing

• Executing sophisticated experiments on bleeding-edge AI tools
• Creating detailed research documents with actionable implementation guidance
• Sharing your work publicly, contributing to the collective knowledge of AI advancement
• Guiding portfolio companies in revolutionizing their AI approach
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Managing infrastructure or operations
• Overseeing teams or roadmaps
• Creating high-level reports that gather dust
• Working on team projects - you operate independently
  
  

Basic Requirements

VP of AI Research and Development key responsibilities

• Strong computer science foundations with expertise in software architecture and systems design
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute sophisticated AI/LLM benchmarks and evaluation tests
• Experience with prompt engineering and systematic model evaluation
• Track record of building complex multi-modal AI agents with judgment engines
• Exceptional written communication skills
• Proven ability to rapidly master new technologies
• Comfort with public technical discourse and knowledge sharing
• Self-directed with strong experimental design skills
  
  

About Trilogy

Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely new moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today's modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with Crossover

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

What To Expect Next

• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
• Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
  
  

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
• Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
• Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
  
  

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5472-CA-Mississa-VPofAIResearch1.001