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Head of Research & Development (R&D)

Rwazi · Global (Remote) · Remote

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About Rwazi

Rwazi is the Decision AI company built on zero-party data from 5M+ contributors across 190+ countries. Sena is the decision intelligence platform that decides. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

This role ensures Rwazi does not stagnate at feature-level innovation.

What they're looking for

  • Deep systems thinking and formal reasoning ability
  • Experience designing structured decision frameworks
  • Strong understanding of AI systems, modeling logic, or computational reasoning
  • Ability to translate abstract research into usable system components
  • Comfort operating autonomously at high strategic altitude
  • Demonstrated work on complex, ambiguous problems
More about this role

Head of Research & Development (R&D)

Rwazi’s long-term advantage depends on expanding the frontier of what decision systems can reason about.

The Head of R&D owns long-horizon capability development — exploring, prototyping, and formalizing the next generation of decision intelligence that will power future versions of Rwazi’s platform.

This role operates beyond immediate roadmap pressures.

It identifies structural opportunities in reasoning systems, signal modeling, AI-assisted judgment, and decision automation — and transforms them into foundational capabilities.

The Head of R&D defines what Rwazi becomes 3–5 years from now.

Advancing future decision system architectures

Formalizing higher-order reasoning capabilities

Exploring new signal classes and evaluation logic

Identifying structural AI leverage points

Converting research into reusable system primitives

This is a capability-building role, not a feature-delivery function.

Identify unsolved reasoning challenges within Rwazi’s domain

Explore advanced decision frameworks beyond current product constraints

Develop conceptual models for higher-order AI reasoning systems

Investigate new signal environments and structured judgment...

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