About the Role
A1 is building a proactive AI chat app for everyday users to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows. Unlike traditional chat-based applications, our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. The system must handle multi-step reasoning, interact with external tools, and remain reliable despite non-deterministic model behavior.
You will own the research and intelligence direction of this system. Your role is to define how AI reasons, evaluates, and improves in a product used with high frequency.
What You'll Do Set and evolve the research direction for A1's core intelligence, including context representation, memory, reasoning, planning, and orchestration. Decide when to design new model architectures versus adapting or leveraging frontier open-source or commercial models. Define evaluation frameworks that measure real-world usefulness, robustness, sa...