Strategic Projects Lead

Salary: $200,000 – $250,000 USD + founding equity Location: New York City preferred (flexible for exceptional candidates) Morpheus are partnered with an early-stage, frontier-lab-connected startup building the evaluation and training infrastructure for autonomous healthcare AI — high-fidelity RL training gyms and environments that make agents reliable on real clinical, operational, and administrative workflows. They're commercially live and already working with frontier labs. They're hiring an exceptional Founding Strategic Project Lead to own lab-facing delivery and expansion across their existing frontier lab relationships — turning early engagements into shipped RL environments, gym artifacts, and post-training datasets that convert into larger contracts. What you'll do: Own end-to-end execution across lab engagements: scoping, timelines, milestones, risk, and delivery of RL environments and post-training data artifacts Be the customer-facing lead for frontier lab stakeholders — running cadence, aligning on environment specs and acceptance criteria Translate ambiguous lab asks into concrete workstreams: environment/gym spec, reward and verifier design, task library plan, QC plan, delivery roadmap Drive "quick-hit" pilots that prove fit and de-risk full delivery Coordinate across ML/RL researchers, environment engineers, and domain experts to ship complex projects at frontier-lab quality Build and enforce delivery quality systems — definition-of-done checklists, QC gates, auditability, versioning, postmortems Help convert successful deliveries into expanded scopes and longer-term contracts What they're looking for: A track record delivering complex technical projects directly to frontier AI labs — ideally involving RL environments, evals, or post-training deliverables Working understanding of RL environments: reward design, verifiers, environment/task construction Hands-on familiarity with post-training data pipelines (annotation workflows, RLHF/RLAIF-style processes or similar) Exceptional ability to turn ambiguity into structure — clear goals, tight scope, crisp milestones High agency and comfort operating in a small startup with limited process to lean on Experience in regulated domains (healthcare, fintech, security) is a plus Experience converting early customer demand into expanded contracts is a plus #J-18808-Ljbffr Morpheus Talent Solutions