As AI Research Manager, you will own the operating health and execution of Nubank's ML research agenda. This is a dedicated people-management role for a small, high-talent-density team of world-class researchers, partnering closely with senior technical leads who drive the scientific direction
The team works on a portfolio of research bets on a one-to-four-quarter horizon. This work compounds into the production capabilities Nubank will depend on. Current and upcoming bets include
Next-generation nuFormer architectures: proprietary transformers that learn from raw transaction sequences and power key production credit decisions
Multitask and multi-target modeling: single models serving many high-impact prediction tasks at once
Training and inference efficiency: distillation, quantization, sparsity, and parallelism to run state-of-the-art models economically at our scale
Causal modeling and policy optimization: moving beyond prediction to the decisions and policies those predictions should drive
World models: open-ended models that reason about a customer's full financial life
Recommendation systems: extending the backbone to app events, engagement, and personalization signals
Embeddings and representation learning: semantic IDs, contrastive learning, and reusable representations used across the bank
Real-time and continual learning: low-latency inference and models that adapt over time
Your job is to make exceptional science happen: build the conditions, focus, and operating rhythm that researchers do great work
Location: Palo Alto, US
YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Lead, mentor, and advocate for a team of world-class ML researchers, fostering an environment of psychological safety, high ambition, and rigorous scientific inquiry
Own the operating health of the team, including performance, career growth, hiring, and compensation cycles for elite individual contributors who often operate at staff-and-above technical depth
Attract and retain top-tier research talent in a competitive market, and build a reputation for the team as a place the best researchers want to be