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Not an Afterthought.

TAL Corp is built by researchers who believe safety is the work, engineers who treat reliability as a moral obligation, and advisors who have spent careers asking what AI should be — not just what it can do.

23Team Members
3Founders
12Researchers
4Advisors
Leadership
01

Dr. Elara Voss

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Previously: DeepMind, Oxford Future of Humanity Institute

Elara founded TAL Corp on the thesis that safety and capability are not in tension — they are the same engineering problem stated differently. She leads overall strategy, research direction, and external partnerships. Her prior work on corrigibility in multi-agent systems is the foundation of TAL Corp's Constitutional AI v3 framework.

02

Marcus Osei

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Previously: Google Brain, Carnegie Mellon University

Marcus architects every layer of TAL Corp's training infrastructure — from data pipelines to distributed training clusters to the real-time interpretability dashboards shipped with every model. He holds 14 patents in ML systems and has co-authored three of TAL Corp's six published papers.

03

Dr. Nadia Chren

Chief Safety Officer

Previously: Anthropic, MIT CSAIL

Nadia leads all safety research, red-team programs, and certification processes at TAL Corp. She designed the S-2 certification framework and runs the adversarial evaluation suite that every model must pass before deployment. She is the author of the SAFE-AGENT benchmark.

Research Team

The People Behind the Papers.

Researcher
J. Mercer
Research Lead, Alignment
AreaAlignment
Papers2
Joined2024
Researcher
S. Park
Research Lead, Interpretability
AreaInterpretability
Papers2
Joined2024
Researcher
A. Krishnaswamy
Research Lead, Reasoning
AreaReasoning
Papers2
Joined2025
Researcher
D. Okafor
Research Lead, Agentic Systems
AreaAgentic Systems
Papers2
Joined2025
Researcher
L. Okonkwo
Research Scientist
AreaInterpretability
Papers1
Joined2025
Researcher
R. Vasquez
Research Scientist, Evaluation
AreaEvaluation
Papers2
Joined2025
Engineering
01

Yuki Tanaka

VP of Engineering

Previously: OpenAI, Stripe

Yuki leads the engineering organisation across training infrastructure, API platform, and product. She scaled TAL Corp's compute cluster from 128 to 4,096 GPUs in eight months without a single training run interruption.

02

Tobias Reinholt

Staff Engineer, Training Infrastructure

Previously: Meta AI, ETH Zürich

Tobias owns the distributed training stack — fault tolerance, gradient synchronisation, and the custom FSDP implementation that cuts memory overhead by 34% across TAL Corp's model family.

03

Priya Sundaram

Staff Engineer, API & Developer Platform

Previously: Cloudflare, IIT Bombay

Priya built and operates the TAL API from scratch — zero-downtime deploys, per-token latency SLAs, and the real-time interpretability endpoint that gives every API user token attribution scores at inference time.

04

Emre Kaya

Staff Engineer, Data & RLHF

Previously: Cohere, Boğaziçi University

Emre leads data curation, human preference collection, and the RLHF-C hybrid training pipeline. He manages TAL Corp's network of 3,200 human evaluators across 28 language and cultural contexts.

Advisors

People Who Have Seen This Before.

Strategic Advisor
Prof. Sara Kimani
University of Nairobi — AI Ethics Lab

AI governance, policy frameworks, responsible deployment in emerging markets.

Technical Advisor
Dr. James Calloway
Stanford HAI — Human-Centered AI Institute

Human-AI interaction, value alignment methodology, constitutional constraint design.

Board Advisor
Ingrid Solberg
General Partner, Frontier Capital

Frontier technology investment, go-to-market strategy, enterprise AI adoption.

Research Advisor
Prof. Ryo Matsumoto
Tokyo Institute of Technology — ML Systems Lab

Distributed ML systems, efficient training architectures, OOD robustness.

Join the Team

We Are Hiring.

We are looking for researchers, engineers, and operators who think rigorously, write clearly, and believe that what they build matters. If that is you, we want to hear from you — even if no open role matches exactly.

Open Roles
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Location
Remote-first, US & EU
Response Time
5 business days
Culture
Research-led, no politics

Email us at: careers@texasagilabs.com