Head of Research & Development (R&D)
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About this role
Head of Research & Development (R&D)
Location: Global (Remote)
Reports to: CEO
Employment Type: Full-time
MISSION AT RWAZI
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.
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