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Cyera is building the security operating model for the age of AI, providing a unified control plane that understands relationships between data, access, and behaviors across humans, systems, and AI. The company works with Fortune 1000 enterprises to secure AI adoption through holistic data and model security.
As AI Research Team Lead, you will manage a talented team of AI researchers and set the strategic vision for research initiatives. You'll mentor team members through technical guidance and career development while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. Your responsibilities include defining team priorities, roadmap, and data science methodologies, and acting as both technical and strategic lead.
You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leadership to translate open-ended data-security challenges into measurable experiments and shipped features. This includes managing the critical balance between research exploration and product delivery, owning the end-to-end lifecycle from problem framing and data strategy through evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
Key technical focus areas include developing deep learning and NLP solutions for sensitive data classification, designing and architecting production-grade agentic workflows, and establishing rigorous evaluation pipelines to benchmark agent accuracy, latency, and cost. You'll implement ML models across the research process—clustering, text extraction, document analysis, and tabular data classification.
You'll work within a full-stack AI group including research engineers, machine learning engineers, data operations specialists, and security researchers, accelerating the path from research to production while ensuring results are both quick and precise. You'll manage team performance, resource allocation, and timely project delivery in an agile environment.
