Head of Research (AI)
About Avra
Avra is building relational foundation models for enterprise decision-making in Brazil.
Our work focuses on graph-native models for structured, high-stakes prediction problems: credit, fraud, growth, monitoring, and other decisions where entities cannot be understood in isolation. We model companies, people, and the relationships between them as evolving networks, then adapt those representations to customer-specific prediction tasks that plug into existing decisioning systems.
We work with internationally recognized research advisors, and we care about research that becomes useful in production.
The role
This is a leadership role for a hands-on "player-coach" who will own and elevate our research function. Your mission is to scale the scientific vision for our Foundation Models for Relational Data (e.g., graphs, databases). You will raise the technical bar for the entire team, and bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and production-grade capabilities that move our clients' most important metrics. You will partner deeply with our Data teams (graph & data pipelines), Product Engineering & MLOps to transform ambitious ideas into the core of Avra's platform.
