Founding AI Engineer AKA Machine Learning / LLM Engineer
Pleasanton, CA (you can work from home 2x/week)
The company is led by industry veterans with leadership experience at top tech companies such as Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn and Microsoft.
The company's b2b2c product will have a positive impact on their customer companies as well as the communities of users of those companies' products.
The company will pay up to $200k plus equity which could be very lucrative.
Job Responsibilities:
- All the work will involve LLMs and NLP, generative modeling.
- Building groundbreaking AI systems, leveraging multiple LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama 2).
- It will be about 35% research and 65% engineering.
- The data you'll work with will be about 80% text, 20% images/voice/video.
- Designing and implementing NLP models to improve the product's functionality.
- Fine tuning open source models, leveraging OpenAI and Anthropic models, working with RAG.
- Staying current with the latest advancements in LLMs, NLP and AI.
Qualifications
- The ability to work as an AI scientist and software engineer.
- Able to build models and ship on your own without the support of a large team.
- Understanding of NLP, AI, OpenAI, GPT4.
- Experience in building/shipping AI products, software engineering capabilities.
- At least 4 years of professional experience.
- Deployed AI models/APIs into production involving LLM (GPT-4, Bert, etc.).
- A Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent expeirence.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
About Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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