Staff Engineer, Frontier AI Research & Data (Flexible PTO)

Abundant

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 9,000 - 11,000

Full time

14 days+
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Health benefits
Flexible PTO

Job summary

Abundant in San Francisco seeks a Member of Technical Staff to architect the next generation of model reasoning and intelligence. You will lead at the frontier where research and production collide, co-designing strategies with top researchers to push SOTA boundaries.

This is a role for an engineers who is already contributing frontier research. We expect exceptional depth in CS/ML/NLP research, a proven ability to productize research, and strong ethical leadership guiding AI safety and

Qualifications

  • Research expertise in CS/ML/NLP with conference publications.
  • Ability to productize research into scalable features.
  • Experience guiding AI safety and governance discussions are a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and execute a core research agenda from concept to live deployment.
  • Design, engineer, and iterate on large-scale data and benchmarking for alignment and safety.
  • Identify and scope long-running research projects critical to scaling data for AGI/ASI.
  • Collaborate with engineering on data pipelines and high-performance DL implementations.

Skills

Research depth
Strategic thinking
Ethical leadership
Project management

Education

CS/ML/NLP degree

Tools

PyTorch
TensorFlow

Job description

Abundant in San Francisco seeks a Member of Technical Staff to architect the next generation of model reasoning and intelligence. You will lead at the frontier where research and production collide, co-designing strategies with top researchers to push SOTA boundaries.

This is a role for an engineers who is already contributing frontier research. We expect exceptional depth in CS/ML/NLP research, a proven ability to productize research, and strong ethical leadership guiding AI safety and

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