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R&D - Humans & Machines Lab

Lab Leads & university-partner collaborators

A lab's agenda and the partnership with a launch university.

Office-first9 cities

About the role

You set a lab's agenda and run the partnership with one of our launch universities. Half research leadership, half institution-building: choosing problems worth years, growing the people working on them, and keeping a genuine two-way relationship with the university rather than a logo on a slide.

What we need to see

  • Research leadership: you have set an agenda others worked to and grown the people doing it
  • Real collaboration experience across academia and industry
  • You choose problems that matter and can defend the choice
  • You will make sure the work lands in the product rather than only in a paper

Nice to have

  • Existing ties to Stony Brook, Purdue, or the IITs
  • You have run a funded research program
  • A record of students or researchers who went on to do notable work

What winning looks like

  • Research output and talent developed
  • Joint projects with university partners
  • Impact landed in the product

Where and how we work

In the office together five days a week, in any of these cities. Remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time.