Director of Research, Agentic AI
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
DigitalOcean is building the Agentic Inference Cloud — anchored by Inference Engine, our model-serving platform — to help fast-growing AI-native companies start, scale, and optimize agentic workloads. Applied Research is the layer that generates the proprietary science that compounds across that platform: routing that learns instead of following static rules, memory that improves recall and personalization, observability that explains why agents succeed or get stuck, and reinforcement learning that closes the loop between production signals and model behavior.
We're hiring a Director of Research to build and lead this function: set the research agenda, grow the team, and make sure the science this group produces ships into real product outcomes — better model selection and routing, more reliable agents, lower cost and latency, and higher task-success rates for the develope
