Senior Backend Engineer - Materia

← About Materia

Materia is a well funded early stage startup, building AI powered software to help augment a wide range of tasks and improve productivity for professionals at large accounting firms.

Role

We are looking for someone for a talented backend engineer with an infra focus to join our growing engineering team. We have many difficult technical challenges to solve around data security, software scalability, and working with LLMs. Note: backend engineers come in many flavors and so don’t feel like you need to match this profile exactly! Feel free to reach out to us and tell us why you would be a great fit for our startup.

Breakdown: 50% infrastructure, devops, security; 50% contributing to our core LLM based codebase.

Impact

• Shape Materia's infrastructure architecture and security systems, and be a core contributor to innovative LLM based algorithms and AI-driven tools.
• As part of a small but growing team, your contributions will directly influence our product development and company trajectory.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Proven experience leading projects and building scalable, robust, and secure systems
• Proficiency in backend software development and cloud based infrastructure, ideally with AWS, python, and RDBMS like postgres
• At least 5 years in backend software engineering with a focus on infrastructure
• A flexible and adaptable mindset. Early stage startups are inherently always evolving! How we handle uncertainty is how we make progress as a company.
• Bonus:
• Previous early stage startup experience
• Experience working with sensitive data
• Experience with with LLMs, ML, AI

Tech Stack

At Materia we use:

• Frontend: NextJS (App Router), Typescript, Tailwind, Zustand
• Design: Figma, Storybook
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, OpenAI/Anthropic/Cohere/open source models, Docker, AWS (CDK), a bit of Azure and GCP

← About Materia

Materia is a well funded early stage startup, building AI powered software to help augment a wide range of tasks and improve productivity for professionals at large accounting firms.

Role

As a Front End Engineer at Materia, you will lead the design and implementation of our product and be a core contributor to the direction of our company. We are looking for someone to own the front end development and be a part of our growing engineering team.

Breakdown: 10-20% on product and UI/UX design, with the remaining 80-90% on web development using React/NextJS, Tailwind, and Typescript.

Impact

• Shape Materia's AI-driven UI/UX and product direction.
• As part of a small but growing team, your contributions will directly influence our product development and company trajectory.
• Lead the development of innovative AI-powered accounting tools.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Proven experience leading projects and building beautiful & slick user interfaces
• Proficiency in frontend software development, especially with React, Typescript, and Tailwind.
• A strong familiarity with UI/UX and product design.
• At least 5 years in software engineering with a focus on frontend product development.
• A flexible and adaptable mindset. Early stage startups are inherently always evolving! How we handle uncertainty is how we make progress as a company.
• Bonus:
• Previous early stage startup experience
• Experience with with LLMs or in the Accounting Industry

Tech Stack

At Materia we use:

• Frontend: NextJS (App Router), Typescript, Tailwind, Zustand
• Design: Figma, Storybook
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, OpenAI/Anthropic/Cohere/open source models, Docker, AWS (CDK), a bit of Azure and GCP

About OctAI: OctAI stands at the cutting edge of AI-driven music creation, merging the realms of artificial intelligence with the boundless world of music. We aim to revolutionize how music is crafted, providing tools that blend traditional artistry with modern technology.

Position Overview: As a Full-Stack Engineer at OctAI, you'll be at the heart of our mission, developing robust, scalable, and user-friendly applications that empower users to harness the power of AI in music creation. Your expertise will bridge the gap between the back-end and front-end, ensuring a seamless experience for our users.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Application Development:
• Design, implement, and maintain the front-end and back-end components of our AI music creation applications.
• Collaborate with our AI and product teams to integrate music generation models into user-facing products.
• Ensure the scalability, performance, and resilience of our applications.
2. User Experience Enhancement:
• Work closely with the design team to implement and iterate on user interfaces, ensuring they are intuitive and responsive.
• Gather feedback from users to continually refine and improve the application experience.
3. Testing and Deployment:
• Implement robust testing protocols for all developed features, ensuring reliability and functionality.
• Continuously integrate and deploy updates, collaborating with the DevOps team for smooth rollouts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a full-stack developer, preferably with projects in the music or AI domain.
• Strong proficiency in modern web technologies such as JavaScript (React, Vue, Angular), Node.js, and associated frameworks.
• Experience with back-end development, including but not limited to Python, Django, Flask, or other relevant technologies.
• Familiarity with AI integration, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), and database management.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a passion for creating high-quality user experiences.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule and remote work options.
• An opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking team and create a huge impact in the AI music world
• Work on a daily basis with the founding team and world-class mentors from AI2

To apply, please send your resume and relevant documents to yihaoch@octaimusic.com

OctAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About OctAI: OctAI stands at the cutting edge of AI-driven music creation, merging the realms of artificial intelligence with the boundless world of music. We aim to revolutionize how music is crafted, providing tools that blend traditional artistry with modern technology.

Position Overview: We’re seeking a talented and passionate Music/Audio AI Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will contribute to developing state-of-the-art AI algorithms and models geared towards music generation, sound design, and audio processing. If you're eager to push the boundaries of what AI can achieve in the realm of music, we’d love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities:

1. AI Model Development:
• Design, implement, and optimize AI models for music generation, audio processing, and sound design.
• Work closely with the product and engineering teams to integrate AI technologies into user-facing applications.
2. Research and Innovation:
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, music theory, and audio signal processing.
• Innovate and experiment with novel approaches and technologies to enhance the quality and creativity of AI-generated music.
3. Data Management:
• Collaborate with the data acquisition team to identify, curate, and preprocess datasets for model training and evaluation.
• Enhance data augmentation and preprocessing techniques to improve model performance.
4. Evaluation and Optimization:
• Evaluate the performance of AI models, implementing improvements and optimizations to enhance creativity, realism, and user experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user feedback into technical enhancements.

Qualifications:

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Music Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in AI/ML, with a focus on music or audio processing.
• Proficiency in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar AI/ML framework.
• A strong foundation in digital audio processing, NLP, music theory, and/or sound design.
• Creative problem-solving skills, innovation mindset, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with a diverse team.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule and remote work options.
• An opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking team and create a huge impact in the AI music world
• Work on a daily basis with the founding team and world-class mentors from AI2

To apply, please send your resume and relevant documents to yihaoch@octaimusic.com

OctAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Imagine a world in which people build websites or products without Splunk, Mixpanel, or Datadog. That would be hard. Yet, for engineers working on modern robotics systems (such as self-driving cars or drones), that’s an analogous reality. These engineers often struggle to make informed decisions about their robots when things aren’t working correctly, and have to hack together solutions in-house.

We're building a platform to ingest, search and analyze the vast amounts of data produced by robots. Our platform ingests data from a wide range of devices (such as cameras, lidars, radars, batteries, motors, and more), and then allows engineers to analyze and transform it. It’s AI. It's robotics. It’s autonomous systems. It’s the future. And it’s going to be huge. Join us!

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our founding team. In this role, you will be responsible for creating groundbreaking new user experiences that use AI to power the search, analysis and visualization of sensor data. We expect you to be deeply familiar with modern web technologies and have prior experience building products at high growth startups.

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• At least 4 years of full-time experience building web applications
• Expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript and React
• Experience building scalable web applications with cross-browser support
• Experience working closely with designers, product managers and backend engineers
• Experience creating designs with HTML/CSS and modern frameworks (e.g. MUI)
• Experience with visualization frameworks (e.g. WebGL, Three.js) and charting libraries
• Experience building developer tools, data analytics or visualization products
• Experience optimizing performance and state management in complex applications
• Experience building desktop applications with Electron (a plus)
• Experience with other programming languages such as Python (a plus)
• Experience with the latest web technologies including Web Assembly/wasm (a plus)

ABOUT US

We are a small but mighty (and growing) group with a mission to help the industry build better robots and bring them to market faster. Our founding team is made up of experts in robotics, machine learning, computer vision and more. In past lives—we were founding engineers on the Amazon Prime Air team, led autonomy and simulation initiatives at Amazon Robotics, and implemented machine learning solutions from AWS into numerous Fortune 500 companies. We also count the Paul Allen Institute for AI as a co-founder, one of the world’s leading A.I. research institutions. We recently raised seed funding from some incredible investors, and we’re now moving fast to build for our customers.

WHY JOIN

BCG forecasts that the global robotics market will climb from $25 billion in 2021 to upwards of $260 billion by 2030. McKinsey forecasts that the global shared autonomous-driving market alone will be roughly $1.6 trillion by 2030. By any measure—the robotics industry is going to be huge—with the majority of that growth coming in the next 5-10 years. But what's clear is that the industry doesn’t have the tools to facilitate that growth.

As a seed-funded startup, we also have several unique benefits that you can’t really get anywhere else:

• Personal impact — The opportunity to build something from the ground up and define a new product.
• Founding title — You will be one of our first hires. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction.
• Early stage equity — Early stage risk comes with early stage equity for you. And none of us would be here if we didn’t think that our company will create tremendous value over time.
• Access to unique learning opportunities — With the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) as a co-founder, our team gets access to numerous talks by leading AI researchers/paper authors, access to knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers that work for AI2 companies, and much more.

Base salary range: $150,000 - $175,000

Total compensation, which includes equity, determined based on experience

About Us

We are an early-stage, deep-tech startup that is revolutionizing the way people write with the help of large language models. We are a team of experienced world-class natural language processing (NLP) researchers, who are at the very forefront of generative models of text, and are passionate about creating innovative solutions to help people communicate more effectively. We believe with the right tools and support, writing does not have to be tedious and time consuming, and that's why we're building writing assistants that leverage the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

If you're passionate about leveraging advances in AI for making users more productive, join our innovative team on our journey!

We have recently spun out of the Incubator at the Allen Institute for AI, a world-class, top-tier research organization in artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Who you are:

We are looking for our first full-time engineer at our startup. You are a person who can take ownership of the backend, including design, implementation, deployment, maintenance, and scaling. Fronting experience is desirable, but not required. You are comfortable working in the fast-changing environment of startups. You are familiar with the best engineering practices and have long experience building cloud-based systems from scratch and taking them from 0 to 1, then scaling them. You can find the right balance between simple non-scalable solutions vs. complicated long-term solutions based on the stage of the project. You pay attention to details, and easy to work with, and have some leadership experience.

What you’ll do in this role:

As the founding engineer for our startup, you will have a crucial role in shaping the direction of our engineering efforts. Here are some key responsibilities that you will undertake:

• Design backend architecture, weighing between simplicity vs. scalability
• Build our backend infrastructure on Google Cloud
• Evolve the project plan based on rapidly changing requirements
• Scale the backend as the number of users increases
• Setup logging, monitoring, error reporting and recovery, alerts .. etc
• Setup engineering processes for the backend development, including testing, documentation, issue tracking, and sprint planning
• Optimize the response time of the backend to user queries
• Dealing with services that have different computational requirements, ranging from milli-seconds on CPU to long GPU hours
• Ensuring the backend is secure and safe for the user data
• Work closely with the frontend developers and with the ML team
• Help with recruiting and mentoring future engineering hires

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience building cloud-based applications, ideally on Google Cloud
• Strong experience with backend technologies and languages like Node, Next, and typescript
• Strong experience building all backend components from scratch including databases, data storage, logging, caching, queuing, authentication, continuous integration, deployment, autoscaling, infra-as-code, serverless deployment, …
• Strong communication, planning, and organizational skills

Some experiences that will be very helpful but not required

• Experience with python development
• Experience with resource scheduling
• Experience deploying machine learning models
• Frontend technologies like React, Javascript, HTML/CSS

Best candidates do not always match all criteria of the job description; we encourage you to apply if you think you would be a good fit for the role and are inspired by our mission.

Why you will love working with us:

• Impact — You'll have the chance to make a real impact on a large base of users. Our mission is to make people more productive and save them time by improving their writing experience, and you'll be an integral part of that effort. You'll be able to see the direct results of your work and know that you're making a difference in people's lives.
• Unique Learning Opportunities: You'll have the opportunity to work alongside deep technical founders who are experts in generative AI and NLP. You'll have access to an unparalleled level of expertise and knowledge in this exploding landscape of generative AI. Our team also has deep strong connections to the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and many of the top research institutions in AI, along with access to knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers that work for ai2incubator.com companies.
• “Founding” title, employee #1 — As our first hire and holding the "founding" title, you'll always have the bragging rights of being our Employee #1, no matter how many thousands of people join after you. This achievement is not only an incredible distinction, it'll also look great on your resume.
• Early stage equity —We are offering early stage equity as part of our job opportunity, which comes with inherent risk. However, we strongly believe that our company has the potential to create tremendous value over time, and this is a belief shared by both our founders and the Allen Institute for AI. Joining us at this stage means you have the chance to be a part of something groundbreaking and grow with the company.
• Flexible location and hours – As a distributed team, we offer the opportunity to work from anywhere (with sufficient overlap with pacific time), with a slight preference for Seattle or Southern California. This means you'll have the freedom to work from a location that suits you best, and have control over your work hours. We understand that everyone has different needs and responsibilities, and we want to support a healthy work-life balance for all team members.

Co-Founder/CTO Posting

About the Company

We envision a world where communication flows freely, and language barriers no longer exist. Imagine improved quality of care for low-English proficiency patients at the hospital or ordering the best ramen in the world from a small town in Japan while conversing with the owner and sharing stories. Employees can finally be evaluated on their skills rather than their language abilities, allowing them to access more job opportunities and be their full selves around their coworkers.

We’re building software at the forefront of text and speech translation and bringing it to surfaces where communication happens today and 20 years from now. Communication via language is at the heart of what makes us human.

Our founder has launched semantic search and NLP features at one of the largest tech companies in the world and also launched zero-to-one products at enterprise SaaS startups. As part of AI2, our team has access to the brightest AI talent in the world and an unparalleled network of advisors who have been building AI-first solutions for the past decades. Join us in increasing human connectedness by allowing people to communicate with anyone, anywhere.

Co Founder Job Description

The Role

As the Cofounder/CTO, you believe in the power of AI to enhance human connection, especially in helping people communicate with anyone in the world through removing language barriers. You will be responsible for the technical vision and execution as well as building a team of world-class engineers and research scientists to scale our vision.

What You’ll Do

• Own the architecture, design, development, and productionization of the entire tech stack, from video conference extensions and web applications to NLP models
• Recognize and act on opportunities to integrate the latest AI research and related technologies to better serve our customers
• Build and lead our engineering and research organizations
• Work with customers to understand pain points in cross-lingual communication and develop state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to solve them
• Contribute to novel research on translation/interpretation in NLP and represent our work in the broader research community

Who You Are

• You’ve either…
• worked on challenging engineering problems, preferably from zero-to-one. You’ve built and evolved production systems to meet production SLAs at scale, and love to tinker on projects in your free time.
• worked across the AI/ML development lifecycle, from data ingestion to model deployment and production. Bonus: You’ve developed and shipped machine translation / interpretation systems in industry and/or hold a PhD in AI/ML
• You’re comfortable with a modern AI infrastructure stack including data pipelines, ML frameworks, ML cloud infrastructure, and model deployment.
• You crave ownership and get restless when not being challenged.
• You enjoy coaching and mentoring other engineers and researchers, but are also excited to roll up your sleeves and write code.
• You prioritize co-finding and executing on the best ideas, even if they’re not your own. You’re not ideological about technology; rather, you match your decisions about which technology to use based on the situation at hand.
• Bonus: You’re a language nerd and either speak multiple languages, are learning a new language, or love talking about languages!

Additionally

• We strongly believe in co-location of the founding team. Our current team is based in NYC.
• We uphold a writing-based culture, with the goal of minimizing meetings through documenting decisions, writing memos, and sharing knowledge broadly within the company.

Semiconductor chips are the driving force behind the modern technology-driven world. They power everything from cars to rockets, sensors to servers, and have a crucial role to play in several major industries, making the $1T semiconductor industry a vital component of the global economy. However, designing modern semiconductor chips is a costly, engineering-intensive process, further worsened with archaic tools. With the rising complexity of chips, time and cost to market continues to rise.

To address this, we're reimagining how chips are designed using modern advancements in AI to reduce time/cost to market dramatically. With a growing number of organizations designing their own chips and the rising consumption of semiconductors in day-to-day life, the work you will do will significantly impact the lives of many. We are super excited about what we are building; come join us!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an exceptional Applied Research Engineer to join our founding team and contribute to improving our in-house large language models (LLMs). In this role, you will apply cutting-edge techniques to fine-tune LLMs and implement novel ways to improve their performance on our target applications.

This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of LLMs while surrounded by exceptional researchers and builders at AI2. As a founding member of a rapidly growing startup, you will significantly impact the product and shape its future. We offer competitive pay, benefits, and equity, and believe this position will be fulfilling for you.

Ideal Candidate

Several years of full-time experience in applied ML roles, preferably in a fast-paced environment like early-stage startups.

Non-negotiable

• Deep passion for technology. Self-driven individual with a sense of urgency
• Detail oriented and a strong desire to build high-quality customer-focused products

Requirements

• Prior experience in fine-tuning large language models required
• Experience in building diverse and high-quality datasets
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Exposure to or active participation in the latest research and advancements in NLP

Preferences

• Experience in code generation with LLMs
• Experience setting up infrastructure for training large deep-learning models

Not Necessary

• Experience in chip design is NOT necessary

ABOUT US

We are a small but passionate group with a mission to dramatically reduce the time, cost, and engineering effort needed to build complex silicon chips. Our founding team comprises of experts in chip design, AI, and modern software stacks. In past lives—we were researchers, engineers, and leaders at major chip design/AI companies like Qualcomm, Nvidia, Facebook, Google, etc. We also count the Paul Allen Institute for AI as a co-founder, one of the world’s leading A.I. research institutions. We recently raised a pre-seed funding round and are moving fast to build for our customers.

WHY JOIN

As a funded startup, we also have several unique benefits that you can’t really get anywhere else:

• Personal impact — The opportunity to build something from the ground up and define a new product for an industry that is at the core of the modern technological revolution.
• Access to unique learning opportunities — With the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) as a co-founder, our team gets access to numerous talks by leading AI researchers/paper authors, knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers working for AI2 companies, and much more. As a part of the multi-disciplinary team, you get to interact with people from very different backgrounds (from chip design to AI to software engineers).
• Founding title — You will be one of our first hires. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction.
• Early-stage equity — Early-stage risk comes with early-stage equity for you. And none of us would be here if we didn’t think our company would create tremendous value over time.
• Benefits — In spite of being an early-stage company, taking care of our team is a priority for us. From health insurance to catered lunches, we continue to add unique benefits.

Semiconductor chips are the driving force behind the modern technology-driven world. They power everything from cars to rockets, sensors to servers, and have a crucial role to play in several major industries, making the $1T semiconductor industry a vital component of the global economy. However, designing modern semiconductor chips is a costly, engineering-intensive process, further worsened with archaic tools. With the rising complexity of chips, time and cost to market continues to rise.

To address this, we're reimagining how chips are designed using modern advancements in AI to reduce time/cost to market dramatically. With a growing number of organizations designing their own chips and the rising consumption of semiconductors in day-to-day life, the work you will do will significantly impact the lives of many. We are super excited about what we are building; come join us!

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our founding team. We are seeking a generalist with the ability to switch between frontend/backend infrastructures as needed. The role will initially initial focus on the frontend to create elegant, intuitive, and smooth user experiences. The successful candidate will be involved in all parts of the company and influence the product’s trajectory significantly.

Ideal Candidate

Several years of full-time experience building web applications, preferably in fast-paced environments like early-stage startups. Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python is required. Experience in developing IDE plugins (e.g., VSCode) is a big plus.

Non-negotiable

• Deep passion for technology. Self-driven individual with a sense of urgency
• Detail oriented and a strong desire to build high-quality customer-focused products

Requirements

• Strong engineering skills with experience shipping real-world web applications
• Experience creating designs with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and modern frameworks (e.g., MUI)
• Deep understanding of cloud services and exposure to designing and deploying REST API-based containerized microservices

Preferences

• Experience building tooling for developer productivity
• Experience in developing IDE plugins (e.g., VSCode)
• Serving deep learning models and building scalable backends

Not Necessary

• Experience in chip design is NOT necessary

ABOUT US

We are a small but passionate group with a mission to dramatically reduce the time, cost, and engineering effort needed to build complex silicon chips. Our founding team comprises of experts in chip design, AI, and modern software stacks. In past lives—we were researchers, engineers, and leaders at major chip design/AI companies like Qualcomm, Nvidia, Facebook, Google, etc. We also count the Paul Allen Institute for AI as a co-founder, one of the world’s leading A.I. research institutions. We recently raised a pre-seed funding round and are moving fast to build for our customers.

WHY JOIN

As a funded startup, we also have several unique benefits that you can’t really get anywhere else:

• Personal impact — The opportunity to build something from the ground up and define a new product for an industry that is at the core of the modern technological revolution.
• Access to unique learning opportunities — With the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) as a co-founder, our team gets access to numerous talks by leading AI researchers/paper authors, knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers working for AI2 companies, and much more. As a part of the multi-disciplinary team, you get to interact with people from very different backgrounds (from chip design to AI to software engineers).
• Founding title — You will be one of our first hires. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction.
• Early-stage equity — Early-stage risk comes with early-stage equity for you. And none of us would be here if we didn’t think our company would create tremendous value over time.
• Benefits — In spite of being an early-stage company, taking care of our team is a priority for us. From health insurance to catered lunches, we continue to add unique benefits.

Founding Principal Engineer Posting

About the Company

We envision a world where communication flows freely, and language barriers no longer exist. Imagine improved quality of care for low-English proficiency patients at the hospital or ordering the best ramen in the world from a small town in Japan while conversing with the owner and sharing stories. Employees can finally be evaluated on their skills rather than their language abilities, allowing them to access more job opportunities and be their full selves around their coworkers.

We’re building software at the forefront of text and speech translation and bringing it to surfaces where communication happens today and 20 years from now. Communication via language is at the heart of what makes us human.

Our founder has launched semantic search and NLP features at one of the largest tech companies in the world and also launched zero-to-one products at enterprise SaaS startups. As part of AI2, our team has access to the brightest AI talent in the world and an unparalleled network of advisors who have been building AI-first solutions for the past decades. Join us in increasing human connectedness by allowing people to communicate with anyone, anywhere.

Co Founder Job Description

The Role

As a principal engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that supports the entire suite of communication tools within our company. As part of AI2, you’ll be surrounded by world-class engineers and researchers as we work together to break down language barriers and scale our vision.

What You’ll Do

• Design and architect major product features, leveraging the latest in AI research to build the best communication tools available
• Lead product initiatives to deliver magical user experiences in service of our customers
• Anticipate and prevent bottlenecks by proactively rearchitecting our system
• Develop engineering processes that encourage the entire team to ship quality code and hold the codebase to a high standard
• Work with leadership and customers to understand pain points in cross-lingual communication and develop solutions to solve them

Who You Are

• You’ve either…
• worked on challenging engineering problems, preferably from zero-to-one. You’ve built and evolved production systems to meet production SLAs at scale, and love to tinker on projects in your free time.
• worked across the AI/ML development lifecycle, from data ingestion to model deployment and production
• You’re comfortable with a modern AI infrastructure stack including data pipelines, ML frameworks, ML cloud infrastructure, and model deployment.
• You’re willing to flex up and down the stack in order to take projects across the finish line
• You thrive in environments with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity
• You prioritize co-finding and executing on the best ideas, even if they’re not your own. You’re not ideological about technology; rather, you match your decisions about which technology to use based on the situation at hand.
• Bonus: You’re a language nerd and either speak multiple languages, are learning a new language, or love talking about languages!

Additionally

• We strongly believe in co-location of the founding team. Our current team is based in NYC.
• We uphold a writing-based culture, with the goal of minimizing meetings through documenting decisions, writing memos, and sharing knowledge broadly within the company.

Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? We don’t expect every candidate to have done everything listed above, and we're excited to work with candidates who are eager to grow and develop their skills.

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning — WellSaid

Who We Are: WellSaid Labs

We’re creating Voice for everyone.

At WellSaid Labs, we enable creatives around the globe by putting high-tech, human parity technology into their hands, giving them the ability to add voice-over to any project and iterate with ease. Creative teams use WellSaid Lab’s Voice Studio to create compelling employee training, design unique digital experiences, and narrate audiobooks. We believe deeply in AI for Good, and that technology should be empowering, engaging, and fair to all people.

Who You Are: A People-First Engineering Leader

An experienced and collaborative engineering manager, you are an empathetic leader, and a strong communicator. You thrive in a startup environment, have experience building up engineering teams to productize research, and have prior experience managing machine learning teams. You are passionate about pushing the state-of-the-art in deep learning ethically.

How You’ll Contribute:

As an Engineering Manager in Machine learning, you will work closely with our Engineering Leadership to instill best practices, execute on complex pioneering deep learning efforts, and mentor our team mates. You will lead our team in improving our state-of-the-art text-to-speech models alongside content moderation. You will be leading both our data engineers and software engineering in maturing our platform and applying our research.

In your day-to-day, you'll work on:

• Build out our machine learning team from 5 to 10 through thoughtful planning and onboarding.
• Roadmap machine learning initiatives, and keep people up-to-date. Break down big initiatives into smaller tasks.
• Ensure that complex projects be planned, executed, and successfully delivered according to common cross-team standards.
• Manage multiple machine learning projects simultaneously, leading backlog grooming and sprint planning, and generally ensuring that deliverables are met on time.
• Work one-on-one with team members to meet their needs, giving team members regular and constructive feedback. You’ll show concern and success for the well-being of others and do what you can to support people.
• Work side-by-side with the team to demonstrate your knowledge and keep your skills current.
• Conduct design and code reviews with the team.
• Adapt and train the team in best practices for machine learning and software engineering. This includes adhering to the scientific process for research. And various engineering philosophies including testing, documentation, readability, defensibility, etc.
• Help build customer empathy by introducing, discussing and reviewing customer use-cases.
• Surface and lead discussions on the ethics and social impact of the team's work.
• All together you’ll foster an inclusive team culture and working environment.

What We’re Looking For

To thrive in this role, you ideally have experience developing and extending difficult deep learning models in PyTorch, an aesthetic for crafting readable delightful code, and a genuine care for employees as people.

Ideally, you also have some combination of the following:

• Experience leading the development of a mature production machine-learning service.
• 2+ years of experience using Pytorch professionally.
• You have built and deployed ML models for a non-technical audience, clearly communicating usage guidelines and best practices.
• You deeply understand deep learning RND workflows, practices, and techniques.
• 2+ years of experience managing a software engineering team.
• You are proficient in software development practices, including specing, documenting, testing, reviewing, deploying, and monitoring, and are passionate about writing clean, defensible code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• You are flexible and capable of working with a diverse team with various communication styles and needs. You are empathic and supportive.
• You create equitable processes across the entire employee lifecycle. You are particularly mindful of addressing the needs of marginalized people.

To join our team you must also:

• Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• pass a pre-employment background check

What We Offer

WSL is proud to support an inclusive work environment that emphasizes each team member’s personal and professional growth. Our team is fully distributed throughout the U.S., and we support flexible schedules - work where and when you work best. You’ll have teammates just a Slack message or video call away if you ever need help solving an exciting challenge, or even if you just have a funny story to tell.

Other perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Generous vacation policy/paid time off
• Parental leave
• Learning & development stipend
• Home office stipend

As a startup, we strive to be externally competitive with companies at a similar size and stage, and internally fair in our pay practices. The hiring salary range for this role is $180,000 - $210,000 and represents the target offer range given the scope and experience expectations for this role.

What to Expect From Us

We strongly encourage you to apply! If we feel your skills, experience, and values match, we’ll reach out about meeting with the team.

During the interview stage, you can expect:

• An introductory interview with the hiring manager (50 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team.
• An Interview loop with 5-6 interviews (1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with, 2 of which will incorporate coding elements.

All interviews will be remote via Google Meets; we are happy to make accommodations you might need to feel comfortable and set up for success in our process.

WellSaid Labs is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We realize that by bringing together teams rich in diverse thoughts and experiences, our people, company, and customers are free to flourish. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status; or any other protected classifications or characteristics under applicable local laws.

Our Values

• Building with Intent: We build with intent and consider the impacts of what we are building and who we serve.
• Collaborate at Work: We work collaboratively and transparently with out team, customers, and voice actors, and the community.
• We are Accountable: We hold ourselves accountable for our technology, the biases in our processes, and trust in us.
• A Company That Lasts: We are building a lasting company by valuing people and resources, in pursuit of AI for Good.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: This job post is managed by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). AI2's job posts may include open roles for third parties, where applications are coordinated with the hiring party. By submitting your application, you hereby consent to AI2 processing your information as described in its Privacy Policy. You further consent to AI2's disclosure of your information and application materials to AI2 Incubator Inc. or AI2 Incubator startup companies.

Who We Are: WellSaid Labs

We’re creating a Voice for everyone.

At WellSaid Labs, we enable creatives around the globe by putting high-tech, human parity technology into their hands, giving them the ability to add voice-over to any project and iterate with ease. Creative teams use WellSaid Lab’s Voice Studio to create compelling employee training, design unique digital experiences, and narrate audiobooks. We believe deeply in AI for Good, and that technology should be empowering, engaging, and fair to all people

The WellSaid Labs Applied Machine Learning Team works with stakeholders to identify, refine, and solve problems at the intersection of machine learning and customer needs. This team understands customer needs through quantitative and qualitative research and they work across WSL teams to understand how machine learning is utilized and how it can be improved.

How You’ll Contribute:

As Senior Software Engineer on the ML Platform Team, you will work alongside the CTO to elevate our machine learning platform and extend our state-of-the-art text-to-speech models. This work includes optimizing our training pipeline, automating data processing, and redesigning abstraction layers.

You would be joining a pioneering team with years of experience being the industry leader in text-to-speech.

In your day-to-day, you'll work on:

• Iteratively and incrementally improving our TTS service's ease of use, reliability, and performance.
• Building automated training and data processing services.
• Extending our data structures for better loading, processing, and validating tens of thousands of hours of text and speech data.
• Improving the performance and scalability of our machine learning training pipeline by integrating tools like DeepSpeed, PyTorch AMP, PyTorch JIT, and PyTorch Profiler.
• Researching techniques for better fine tuning and quantizing our models.
• Building confidence in our software through mature testing, reviewing, and deployment practices.
• Being mindful and conscientious of AI ethics and the social impact of your work at WellSaid Labs.
• Open-source reusable libraries and tooling.

What We’re Looking For

To thrive in this role, you ideally have experience developing and extending difficult deep learning models in PyTorch, experience deploying models into production, and an understanding of the key elements to a good developer experience.

Ideally, you also have some combination of the following:

• Experience in iteratively and incrementally developing a mature machine-learning service.
• 2+ years experience using Pytorch professionally.
• You have built and deployed ML models for use by a non-technical audience, clearly communicating usage guidelines and best practices.
• Great attention to detail.
• Attention to creating modular, secure, and well-tested code.
• Experience building reusable tools to increase workflow efficiencies.
• A background using data structures and algorithms to process large amounts of data.
• Experience implementing automating model training and data processing.
• Experience implementing various tooling for speeding up training.
• (Bonus) Experience building highly optimized layers (with C++, CUDA, etc.)
• (Bonus) Experience profiling and optimizing deep neural network performance.
• (Bonus) Experience scaling models past a billion parameters.

To join our team you must also:

• Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• pass a pre-employment background check

What We Offer

WSL is proud to support an inclusive work environment that emphasizes each team member’s personal and professional growth. Our team is fully distributed throughout the U.S., and we support flexible schedules - work where and when you work best. You’ll have teammates just a Slack message or video call away if you ever need help solving an exciting challenge, or even if you just have a funny story to tell.

Other perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Generous vacation policy/paid time off
• Parental leave
• Learning & development stipend
• Home office stipend

As a startup, we strive to be externally competitive with companies at a similar size and stage, and internally fair in our pay practices. The hiring salary range for this role is $155,000 - $175,000 and represents the target offer range given the scope and experience expectations for this role.

What to Expect From Us

We strongly encourage you to apply! If we feel your skills, experience, and values match, we’ll reach out about meeting with the team.

During the interview stage, you can expect:

• An introductory interview with the hiring manager (50 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team.
• A take-home assessment which involves implementing small suggested improvements from research papers in PyTorch
• An Interview loop with 3-4 interviews (1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with

All interviews will be remote via Google Meets; we are happy to make accommodations you might need to feel comfortable and set up for success in our process.

WellSaid Labs is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We realize that by bringing together teams rich in diverse thoughts and experiences, our people, company, and customers are free to flourish. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status; or any other protected classifications or characteristics under applicable local laws.

Our Values

• Building with Intent: We build with intent and consider the impacts of what we are building and who we serve.
• Collaborate at Work: We work collaboratively and transparently with out team, customers, and voice actors, and the community.
• We are Accountable: We hold ourselves accountable for our technology, the biases in our processes, and trust in us.
• A Company That Lasts: We are building a lasting company by valuing people and resources, in pursuit of AI for Good.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: This job post is managed by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). AI2's job posts may include open roles for third parties, where applications are coordinated with the hiring party. By submitting your application, you hereby consent to AI2 processing your information as described in its Privacy Policy. You further consent to AI2's disclosure of your information and application materials to AI2 Incubator Inc. or AI2 Incubator startup companies.

Who We Are: WellSaid Labs

We’re creating a Voice for everyone.

At WellSaid Labs, we enable creatives around the globe by putting high-tech, human parity technology into their hands, giving them the ability to add voice-over to any project and iterate with ease. Creative teams use WellSaid Lab’s Voice Studio to create compelling employee training, design unique digital experiences, and narrate audiobooks. We believe deeply in AI for Good, and that technology should be empowering, engaging, and fair to all people

How You’ll Contribute:

As Staff Software Engineer on the ML Platform Team, you will work with the CTO to elevate our machine learning platform and extend our state-of-the-art text-to-speech models. This work includes optimizing our training pipeline, automating data processing, and redesigning abstraction layers.

You would be joining and leading a pioneering team with years of experience being the industry leader in text-to-speech.

In your day-today, you'll work on:

• Iteratively and incrementally improving our TTS service's ease of use, reliability, and performance.
• Building automated training and data processing services.
• Scaling our platform to load, process and validate tens of thousands of hours of text and speech data.
• Improving the performance and scalability of our machine learning training pipeline by integrating tools like DeepSpeed, PyTorch AMP, PyTorch JIT, and PyTorch Profiler.
• Researching techniques for better fine tuning and quantizing our models.
• Implementing processes to build confidence in our platform and services.
• Surfacing and leading discussions on the AI ethics and the social impact of your work at WellSaid Labs.
• Fostering and inclusive team culture and working environment.
• Open-source reusable libraries and tooling.

What We’re Looking For

To thrive in this role, you ideally have developed complex PyTorch models, experience deploying and monitoring models in production, and an deep understanding of scaling machine learning services. You ideally have led significant deep learning projects to address customer problems.

Ideally, you also have some combination of the following:

• Experience leading the development of a mature production machine-learning service.
• Has deployed deep learning models with Pytorch in the past 2 years.
• You have built and deployed ML models for use by a non-technical audience, clearly communicating usage guidelines and best practices.
• Great attention to detail.
• Affinity for creating modular, scalable, secure, and well-tested code.
• You deeply understand deep learning RND workflows, practices, and techniques.
• A background using data structures and algorithms to process large amounts of data.
• Experience implementing automating model training and data processing.
• Experience implementing various tooling for speeding up training.
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills.
• An agile, iterative mentality and approach to problem-solving.
• (Bonus) Experience building highly optimized layers (with C++, CUDA, etc.)
• (Bonus) Experience profiling and optimizing deep neural network performance.
• (Bonus) Experience scaling models past a billion parameters.

To join our team you must also:

• be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• pass a pre-employment background check

What We Offer

WSL is proud to support an inclusive work environment that emphasizes each team member’s personal and professional growth. Our team is fully distributed throughout the U.S., and we support flexible schedules - work where and when you work best. You’ll have teammates just a Slack message or video call away if you ever need help solving an exciting challenge, or even if you just have a funny story to tell.

Other perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Generous vacation policy/paid time off
• Parental leave
• Learning & development stipend
• Home office stipend

As a startup, we strive to be externally competitive with companies at a similar size and stage, and internally fair in our pay practices. The hiring salary range for this role is $180-210k and represents the target offer range given the scope and experience expectations for this role.

What to Expect From Us

We strongly encourage you to apply! If we feel your skills, experience, and values match, we’ll reach out about meeting with the team.

During the interview stage, you can expect:

• An introductory interview with the hiring manager (50 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team.
• A take-home assessment which involves implementing small suggested improvements from research papers in PyTorch
• An Interview loop with 3-4 interviews (1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with

All interviews will be remote via Google Meets; we are happy to make accommodations you might need to feel comfortable and set up for success in our process.

WellSaid Labs is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We realize that by bringing together teams rich in diverse thoughts and experiences, our people, company, and customers are free to flourish. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status; or any other protected classifications or characteristics under applicable local laws.

Our Values

• Building with Intent: We build with intent and consider the impacts of what we are building and who we serve.
• Collaborate at Work: We work collaboratively and transparently with out team, customers, and voice actors, and the community.
• We are Accountable: We hold ourselves accountable for our technology, the biases in our processes, and trust in us.
• A Company That Lasts: We are building a lasting company by valuing people and resources, in pursuit of AI for Good.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: This job post is managed by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). AI2's job posts may include open roles for third parties, where applications are coordinated with the hiring party. By submitting your application, you hereby consent to AI2 processing your information as described in its Privacy Policy. You further consent to AI2's disclosure of your information and application materials to AI2 Incubator Inc. or AI2 Incubator startup companies.

About Us: OctAI stands at the cutting edge of AI-driven music creation, merging the realms of artificial intelligence with the boundless world of music. We aim to revolutionize how music is crafted, providing tools that blend traditional artistry with modern technology.

Position Overview: The Business Development Manager will be instrumental in steering our company's growth. This role demands a keen understanding of the advertising world and the burgeoning content creation economy. You'll spearhead efforts to identify opportunities, cultivate partnerships, and reinforce OctAI’s reputation as the go-to solution for AI-driven music in these sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Business Growth in Advertising and Content Creation:
• Identify and evaluate new business opportunities within the advertising and content creation sectors.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to penetrate these industries, catering to their unique needs and challenges.
• Collaborate with internal teams to adapt and position our products and services for maximum relevance and appeal.
2. Partnership Development:
• Establish and nurture relationships with advertising agencies, content platforms, influencers, and other industry stakeholders.
• Negotiate partnership agreements, ensuring alignment with company objectives and the specific needs of the advertising and content creation communities.
• Continuously assess and refine existing partnerships for sustained growth and mutual benefit.
3. Revenue Enhancement:
• Pinpoint avenues for revenue growth, focusing on the unique monetization strategies and pain points of advertisers and content creators.
• Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to design initiatives that resonate with these target audiences.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging platforms, and competitor activities to inform business strategies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Advertising, or a related field.
• Solid experience in business development, with a focus on the advertising or content creation industries.
• Comprehensive understanding of the advertising landscape, content creation economy, and their evolving dynamics.
• Proven negotiation skills with a history of forging impactful deals and partnerships.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ambition and drive to thrive in a dynamic, innovative startup environment.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule and remote work options.
• An opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking team and create a huge impact in the AI music world
• Work on a daily basis with the founding team and world-class mentors from AI2

To apply, please send your resume and relevant documents to yihaoch@octaimusic.com

OctAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About Us: OctAI stands at the cutting edge of AI-driven music creation, merging the realms of artificial intelligence with the boundless world of music. We aim to revolutionize how music is crafted, providing tools that blend traditional artistry with modern technology.

Position Overview: The Data Acquisition Specialist will play a critical role in sourcing, negotiating, and managing the datasets that fuel our cutting-edge music generation AI. This role demands a deep understanding of data sourcing, management, and the intricacies of the music industry, especially in terms of data rights and licensing.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Sourcing and Negotiation:
• Identify potential data sources relevant to our AI music generation objectives.
• Negotiate terms, conditions, and costs associated with acquiring datasets.
• Build and maintain relationships with data providers, ensuring a steady flow of relevant datasets.
2. Data Management and Annotation:
• Oversee the data collection, validation, and preprocessing to ensure its quality and relevance.
• Coordinate the annotation process, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Manage, train, and evaluate annotators, providing feedback and ensuring high-quality annotations.
3. Collaboration and Reporting:
• Collaborate with AI and engineering teams to ensure data needs are met and integrated efficiently.
• Provide regular updates on data acquisition efforts, challenges, and opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Music, Business, or a related field.
• Proven experience in data acquisition, management, or a similar role.
• Familiarity with machine learning and AI basics, music datasets, licensing, and intellectual property rights.
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment, juggling multiple responsibilities.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule and remote work options.
• An opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking team and create a huge impact in the AI music world
• Work on a daily basis with the founding team and world-class mentors from AI2

To apply, please send your resume and relevant documents to yihaoch@octaimusic.com

OctAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About the company:

We are revolutionizing the AI Infrastructure landscape by enabling ultra-fast, scalable and cost-efficient AI inference on commodity hardware. Our solution is designed to meet the ever-increasing demand for AI applications, ensuring optimal performance without the exorbitant costs associated with traditional solutions. We believe in a future where businesses, irrespective of their size or industry, can leverage the full potential of AI without constraints. By transforming the way AI models are deployed and run, we are taking a giant leap towards that future. Join us in shaping this frontier.

About the role:

As a Co-Founder and CTO, you will play a pivotal role in building technology that redefine boundaries and achieve unparalleled efficiency. Your expertise will revolve around crafting, implementing, and refining cutting-edge AI algorithms, ensuring the code for machine learning is flawless (a task easier said than done!), and contributing to the science that powers our proprietary algorithms. Every project you embark on has a singular mission - to advance the domain of AI.

We are committed to creating an intuitive solution and compiler tailored that scales across different model architectures and downstream hardware. Our vision is to establish a new standard in inference that can run with higher efficiency than traditional tools like CUDA.

Our journey thrives on collaboration. If your passions lie at the crossroads of research tools, compilers, inference optimization and trailblazing AI frameworks, this is your calling. We're on the hunt for a co-founder who revels in identifying and tackling the most impactful challenges to propel our research to new heights and democratize access to AI.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Master’s or PHD in Compiler, Compute, Deep Learning or Inference related field; advanced degrees preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in software development in Deep Learning Compilers, Inference acceleration or related field
• Demonstrated experience in AI/ML technologies, with a specific focus on AI inference, optimizations, and compiler techniques.
• Define, and develop critical compiler modules including front-end graph optimizations, additional hardware-aware optimizations, back-end code generators and low-level library (kernel) development.
• Use performance-driven methodologies to define a comprehensive set of compiler optimizations needed to enable high-performance AI inference solutions.
• Create and optimize end-to-end performant AI solutions.
• Create SDKs to interface custom compiler stack with popular AI models
• Adept at high-level architectural design and hands-on code development.
• Experience in building, leading, and mentoring engineering teams.
• Exceptional communication abilities and stakeholder management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degrees (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related area with a focus on AI/ML Compute/Inference technologies.
• Hands-on experience in deploying AI models on GPU
• Proficiency in optimizing AI inference for performance and cost.
• Experience in working with or developing AI acceleration tools or platforms.
• Published research or contributions to open-source projects in the AI domain.
• Familiarity with contemporary development tools, languages, and frameworks.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, with a track record of innovating and executing new ideas.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the CEO and the founding team to define the company's technological vision and strategy.
• Lead the development and implementation of the core AI inference acceleration platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage an exceptional engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Stay abreast of advancements in AI, machine learning, and hardware technologies, steering the company towards strategic technological advantages.
• Serve as the primary technical spokesperson for the company, interacting with partners, investors, and clients.
• Ensure that the company’s technology strategy aligns with its business goals.
• Oversee IP strategy, ensuring the protection of technology innovations.

Join us at AI2 and play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of AI infrastructure. We offer a dynamic, challenging, and rewarding environment, giving you the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the future of AI.

ABOUT US

US health systems spend billions annually on clinical and administrative workflows that can be optimized with AI. These workflows cover a wide range of tasks including quality reporting, claims processing and clinical informatics. Completing these tasks often requires clinical experience so clinicians spend hundreds of hours per year on tasks that have no direct impact on patient care. Yet these tasks and the resulting data are vital for operations and long-term care quality improvement.

We use generative AI to assist clinicians with the data access, transformation and clinical inference steps that are key to health system operations. Tools like large language models allow flexibility when dealing with health data and can avoid the need for extensive dataset gathering and retraining. We believe that the application of AI to healthcare requires both high accuracy results as well as the production of supporting evidence.

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THIS ROLE

We are looking for a business development leader to build partnerships and shape the direction of our product. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in healthcare SaaS sales and experience establishing pilot relationships with health systems directly or through their innovation centers.

As a founding member of our team you will:

• Conduct customer discovery interviews to shape the short and long term visions for our product, including working alongside the founders to define the initial customer profile.
• Build our pipeline of customers, including development partnerships to pilot our product, through outreach and our advisors.
• Work closely with users to ensure product success and uncover additional business opportunities.
• Develop distribution and marketing strategies.
• Help direct the development of customer-facing software and experiences.

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

The best candidates do not always match the limited criteria mentioned in the job description. If you are excited about the potential of generative AI to help health systems and feel that you could be a valuable asset to our team, please apply.

What we look for:

• Minimum of 5 years of healthcare SaaS sales or startup business development experience.
• Ability to understand the product you are selling as an expert.
• Well organized, and you know how to qualify, prioritize, and multi-task effectively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong drive to win deals and create happy customers.
• Enthusiasm about and exposure to generative AI systems like ChatGPT.
• Desired: Experience with healthcare quality reporting or informatics software.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US

As an early stage startup, we also have several unique benefits that you can’t really get anywhere else:

• Impact — This is an opportunity to build something from the ground up, define a new product, and lead a team over time.
• Early employee impact — As a member of the very early team, you will play a pivotal role in helping shape our product, team, and culture.
• Early stage equity — None of us (neither our founders nor our investors) would be here if we didn’t think that our company will create tremendous value over time.
• Salary — We are a startup. Salary range of $100-$150k. You can expect salary raises that bring you closer to market rates as we grow. Plus, you’ll have the energy and excitement of a startup and the unique benefits and learning opportunities of taking an early risk.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: This job post is managed by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). AI2's job posts may include open roles for third parties, where applications are coordinated with the hiring party. By submitting your application, you hereby consent to AI2 processing your information as described in its Privacy Policy. You further consent to AI2's disclosure of your information and application materials to AI2 Incubator Inc. or AI2 Incubator startup companies.

Electrical Engineering Co-Founder, Stealth AI+EDA Tools Startup

Montréal or remote in Canada or U.S.

Electronics are pervasive in modern life and foundational for the global economy. As a result, the electronics services industry responsible for design of electronic devices is a $274Bn industry with tooling growing at an impressive 9.5% CAGR. However, the tools and processes for design and test of circuit boards are stuck in the past. They’re outdated, ineffective, and ripe for disruption as engineers are pushed to do more with less.

We’re reinventing how engineers approach designing with modern, AI-powered tools that work for the engineer – not the other way around. We imagine tooling that fundamentally understands what engineers are building with the mission of making electronics design more accessible and correct from the first print.

Join us as we democratize zero-respins for all engineers.

What are we doing?

We are making electronics design accessible and correct from the first print by blending generative AI, ML, and classical approaches to electronics simulation and validation. By giving every engineer intelligent and automated access to the most advanced validation tools we believe we can eliminate respins – helping engineers of all levels deliver their designs faster, cheaper, and with less waste.

Are you the right fit?

We are seeking an exceptional and visionary Co-Founder to join our founding team to revolutionize electronics design automation (EDA) tools. You might be the right fit if you have deep experience in electronics, semiconductors, or EDA tooling and get excited by the idea of building amazing tools to serve others. You have strong domain knowledge coupled with knowledge of the industry and its players, processes, and norms. You have an established network and are driven to connect with engineers and decision-makers alike to ensure we’re solving their problems.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of the electrical engineer (our customer) within the company. You’ll translate and represent their needs and how they think within the company.
• Represent the product and company – owning customer relationships and working with them to ensure they are successful.
• Guide the team in identifying and understanding customer pain points with existing tools.
• Bring your experience in electrical engineering to bear internally to ensure the products and features we put out work and make sense to an EE.
• Contribute to strategic planning and shape our future direction and culture.
• Manage strategic relationships with technical partners.
• Help design your role, the team, and the company to deliver the most impact to our customers.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience and motivation in technical business development, sales, or marketing.
• Experience in designing electronics, working in applications, and/or managing the design of electrical systems.
• An established network of industry connections at all levels.
• Proven experience in capturing and conveying customer design and purchasing criteria.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on learning, understanding, and conveying feedback from customers.
• Creative mindset with a passion for innovation and curiosity to explore new approaches to old problems.
• Strong working proficiency in English as you will work with customers across North America and beyond.

It’s not required, but is a bonus if you are:

• Experienced with test and verification of electrical systems before manufacturing.
• Knowledgeable of EDA tools, software, or product development.
• Experienced with AI tools, developments, or technologies.
• Strong working proficiency in English.

We recognize that the best candidates do not always match the limited criteria mentioned in the job description but if you are excited about our vision and feel that you could be a valuable member of our team, please don't hesitate to apply.

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Impact – You’ll have the chance to make a significant impact now only for our customers, but on how the industry as a whole approaches test and validation.
• Care – we believe strongly in caring for each other. We encourage our people to bring their whole selves to work, support each other, and ensure they are happy in and out of the workplace.
• Unique Learning Opportunities – You'll have access to an unparalleled level of expertise and knowledge in this exploding landscape of generative AI. We count AI2 as a co-founder so have deep strong connections to the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence - a top research institution in AI, along with access to knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers that work for ai2incubator.com companies.
• “Co-Founder” title – you will hold the "co-founder" title, you'll always have the bragging rights, no matter how many thousands of people join after you. This achievement is not only an incredible distinction, it'll also look great on your resume.
• Early-stage equity —We are offering early-stage equity as part of this opportunity, which comes with inherent risk. We strongly believe that we have the potential to create tremendous value over time, and this is a belief shared by both the founders and the Allen Institute for AI. Joining us at this stage means you have the chance to be a part of something groundbreaking and grow with the company.

All are Welcome.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment. We are actively working to create an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our founders and employees are critical to the success of our company.

Technical Co-Founder / CTO at Stealth Legal Tech Startup

ABOUT US

We are an early-stage startup transforming immigration services to empower immigrants to fulfill their dreams. Born from a vision to reshape the realm of immigration, we harness artificial intelligence to simplify, streamline, and humanize the journey immigrants embark upon.

WHO WE ARE

We are a collective who have devoted significant portions of our lives to simplify lives by harnessing the power of technology. Profound expertise in Natural Language Processing and a commitment to revolutionize the immigration landscape forms the core of our team. Our founder has been democratizing state-of-the-art NLP solutions ensuring that they reach customers at a grand scale for over a decade.

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THIS ROLE

We are on the hunt for a founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who believes in our mission and will play a foundational role in shaping our AI-driven product. You will define our technological vision and:

• Work as part of the founding team to conceptualize, iterate, and refine our product roadmap.
• Influence and execute our product vision, ensuring our platform stands out as a leader in transforming immigration services.
• Engage actively with our user base, incorporating their feedback to ensure our platform remains relevant, user-friendly, and effective in addressing real-world needs.
• Lead the charge in recruiting and nurturing a top-tier engineering team, thus laying the foundation for our startup’s sustained growth and innovation.

Your expertise and vision will be instrumental in bringing our dream to fruition, ensuring that our platform is not just another tool, but a game-changer in the realm of immigration technology.

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

We firmly believe that the most exceptional candidates can't be boxed into traditional criteria. If our vision resonates with you or you are looking for a challenge, we urge you to reach out. This role demands a thorough expertise in building scalable AI systems, but more critically, a fervor for rapid adaptation and learning.

Tech Skills

• Proficiency in designing, developing, and deploying scalable systems using languages and platforms such as Python, Node.js, and cloud services.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration tools.
• Excitement about the latest developments in AI and machine learning, and an eagerness to apply them in novel ways to disrupt the immigration domain.
• Desired: Experience with large-scale data storage and processing using cloud platforms

Experience

• A deep sense of empathy for users, reflecting a genuine understanding of the challenges and needs in the immigration journey.
• Prior experience in a leadership tech role at a technology-driven startup or company.
• Proficiency in AI-based tech solutions, familiar with prevalent tools, languages, and frameworks.
• Hands-on experience in shaping product specifications, streamlining workflows, and designing rigorous testing frameworks.
• While we don't bind candidates to a strict number of years or degree requirements, a demonstrated comprehension of end-to-end AI application in real-world scenarios is crucial.
• Desired: Ideally, you've spearheaded a tech, AI, or computational division or project in a startup or recognized company.

Approach

• Unwavering focus on customer needs.
• A flexible mindset, ready to pivot directions swiftly based on product or market dynamics.
• Comfort in both team collaborations and autonomous work settings.
• Stellar communication abilities and an enthusiasm to be an integral member of a compact, dedicated team.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

Our founders have strong reputations as thoughtful, forward-thinking colleagues and mentors who cultivate talent. We’ll think intentionally and collaboratively about your career and how we build our team. Our founders’ experiences in workforce development and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our approach.

• Impact — Our platform will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and therapy development to advance human health. The opportunity to build something from the ground up, define a new product, and lead a team over time in a space that has a real, positive impact.
• Early employee impact —. As a member of the very early team, you will play a pivotal role in helping shape our product, team, and culture. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction. It looks great on a resume, too.
• Early stage equity — A benefit of joining early. None of us (not our founders, nor the Allen Institute for AI Incubator) would be here if we didn’t think that our company will create tremendous value over time.
• Access to unique learning opportunities — With the Allen Institute for AI Incubator as a cofounder, our team gets access to talks by leading AI researchers/paper authors, access to knowledge sharing amongst the community of hundreds of engineers that work for ai2incubator.com companies, and much more.
• Salary — We are a pre-seed startup and salaries will be modest, and comparative to other pre-seed startups, until we raise. You can expect salary raises that bring you closer to market as we raise money and grow. Plus, you’ll have the energy and excitement of a startup and the unique benefits and learning opportunities of taking an early risk.
• Flexible location and hours – We are whole people with whole lives and expect that you are, too. We’ll trust each other to make progress as a team, in times and places that work for everyone. Preference for Seattle area. Travel to Seattle will be required from time to time – it’s a beautiful city!
• Visa support - We can provide visa support.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

About OctAI: OctAI stands at the cutting edge of AI-driven music creation, merging the realms of artificial intelligence with the boundless world of music. We aim to revolutionize how music is crafted, providing tools that blend traditional artistry with modern technology.

Position Overview: As a Product Manager at OctAI, you'll be at the epicenter of our innovation, leading the conceptualization, development, and optimization of our AI-driven music generation products. Your insights, leadership, and collaboration will be pivotal in translating complex AI technology into accessible, intuitive, and valuable tools for our users.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy and Vision:
• Develop a comprehensive product strategy aligned with the company's objectives, market trends, and user needs.
• Create and prioritize the product roadmap, ensuring a balance between short-term deliverables and long-term vision.
2. Product Development:
• Collaborate with engineering, AI, and design teams to develop new features, enhancements, and products.
• Define product requirements and specifications, ensuring clarity and alignment across all development stages.
3. User Experience:
• Gather and analyze user feedback to inform product improvements and innovations.
• Work closely with the design and engineering teams to ensure products are user-friendly, intuitive, and provide significant value.
4. Market Analysis:
• Stay abreast of market trends, competitor products, and emerging technologies to inform product decisions and strategies.
• Identify opportunities for product differentiation and innovation.
5. Product Launch and Optimization:
• Oversee the product launch process, coordinating with marketing, sales, and support teams for seamless execution.
• Analyze product performance metrics and use insights for continuous optimization.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Music Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a product manager, ideally in the tech, AI, or music industry.
• Strong understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, with the ability to translate technical complexities into user-friendly experiences.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Passion for music and technology, with a vision for how they can intersect to create unprecedented value for users.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule and remote work options.
• An opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking team and create a huge impact in the AI music world
• Work on a daily basis with the founding team and world-class mentors from AI2

To apply, please send your resume and relevant documents to yihaoch@octaimusic.com

OctAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Growth Hacker wanted for challenging opportunity. Unconventional path, uncertain outcome, relentless dedication required. Success not guaranteed. The potential to build a household brand and significant equity upside awaits.

We are building the future of how consumers shop online through a helpful AI assistant that works for the consumer, understands their needs and delivers personalized, unbiased recommendations to help them buy confidently.

We recently spun out of the AI2 Incubator (partners of the Allen Institute for AI), a world-class, top-tier research organization in artificial intelligence and raised a seed round from a legendary Tier 1 VC to pursue this mission.

Who you are:

We are looking for a highly motivated and relentless Growth Hacker to join our team. You are passionate about hacking growth and have a deep understanding of the latest marketing techniques and technologies. You are full of creative ideas for finding, reaching and acquiring users. You are all gas and no breaks. You have a strong analytical mindset and love to experiment with new ideas to drive user acquisition and retention. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment and are excited to work with a world-class team of AI entrepreneurs and builders.

What you’ll do in this role:

As our founding growth hacker, you’ll wake up every day thinking about how to acquire more users. You will work closely with our founding team to identify and execute growth opportunities. Specifically, you will:

• Ideate, develop and execute growth marketing strategies to acquire and retain users
• Experiment with various channels and techniques to discover the most efficient growth paths
• Identify and understand users that love our product and acquire more of them
• Conduct data analysis and A/B testing to optimize user conversion rates and retention
• Develop and manage relationships with key partners and influencers to drive brand awareness and user acquisition
• Monitor and analyze key performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and growth
• Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing trends and technologies, and identify new opportunities to drive growth
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, marketing, and engineering to align growth initiatives.
• Build and manage digital marketing campaigns across various channels, including social media, search engines, email, etc.

What we’re looking for:

• An unwavering determination to succeed
• 2+ years of experience in growth marketing or a related field
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data analysis and A/B testing
• Experience with digital marketing channels such as social media, email marketing, and search engine marketing
• Knowledge of various growth-hacking tools, such as automation and campaign monitoring
• Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Passion for learning

It will be especially relevant if you have experience in:

• Consumer eCommerce or B2C customer acquisition

If you are a creative thinker who loves to experiment and has a track record of driving growth in a startup environment, we want to hear from you! Best candidates do not always match all criteria of the job description; we encourage you to apply if you think you would be a good fit for the role and are inspired by our mission.

Compensation

• Competitive salary and equity
• Opportunity to work with a world-class founding team
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Flexibility to work remotely or relocate to San Diego, CA

NOTE: PLEASE APPLY ANYTIME! WE DO NOT HAVE DEADLINES OR COHORTS. WE ALSO WORK WITH TEAMS, NOT JUST SOLO EIRs.

Few periods in history have been more exciting to start a company than now. It's time to bet on yourself and control your own destiny. Let's invent the future, together!

THE GOAL:

You will become the founder of a startup and we will help you build your vision, extensively augmented with our own experience and with customer feedback. All of our support is designed to help you achieve three critical things in the first year (or sooner):

• Create/position the best product
• Build the best team possible
• Raise millions of dollars in venture funding to scale

WHO WE HELP:

(Learn more at ai2incubator.com/whowehelp)

We’ve now helped dozens of entrepreneurs succeed, who hail from all different backgrounds, and we can almost certainly help you as well. Both first time founders and experienced entrepreneurs alike are encouraged to reach out to us. That said, there are four types of entrepreneurs that most commonly succeed here:

AI Researchers

• Has a background in A.I. research and feels a calling/desire to commercialize their work, or the work of others in their related field.
• Is interested in the startup career path, as an alternative to BigCo or academia.

Software Engineers

• Works for top tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, etc.
• Or, works for a deep tech startup, and is ready to be the founder themselves.
• Or, is a senior, principal, or distinguished engineer.
• Or more junior engineers who have been rapidly promoted in the last few years as a sign of strong technical skills.

Scientists (Life, Bio, Physical, Health, Climate, Etc.)

• Has a background in life science, medicine, physical science, or engineering and feels a calling/desire to commercialize their work, or the work of others in their related field.

Product Leaders (Business, Design, PM, TPM, Etc.)

• Has the wherewithal to go from zero to something.
• Has clear leadership qualities, product vision, and the magnetism to attract talent.
• Experience taking an idea and turning it into a product that people love.

Small Existing Teams/Startups

In addition to working with individual founders, we also work with small teams that may already have an early product/prototype and even a pilot customer. It is absolutely fantastic to have a bit of momentum. But you are still in the 1st or 2nd inning of a 75-inning game and it’s still a long way until you achieve success. We can still be very helpful. Note: If you have a team, you can submit just one application for one person in the group. Just mention in your comments below that you are part of a team.

• Can be technical themselves or not.
• Can have AI expertise or not.
• Can have business/product expertise or not.
• Can be incorporated or not.
• Can have pilot customers or not.
• Can have raised some angel funding or not.

HOW WE HELP:

(Learn more at ai2incubator.com/howwehelp)

As your cofounder, we are with you every step of the way—from your initial idea, to your Series A, and beyond. Below is a typical flow, but please know that not every entrepreneur needs to go through every phase. Each founder’s journey with us is unique and can range from 4 to 18 months.

Phase 1: Validation (can be accomplished in as little as 30 days)

The first phase is about validating your idea and testing it with your market.

• Up To $90,000 Investment on Day #1
• UX/UI Mockups of your MVP
• Customer Discovery Research Support

Phase 2: Development (can be accomplished in as little as 60 days)

Once you have confidence in what to build, now it’s time to get serious.

• Co-founder Matching
• Up to $500,000 Pre-Seed Investment
• Up to $450,000 Cloud Credits
• Access to Stability/OpenAI Models
• Foundation Model Credits
• In-House Shared GPUs
• Access to AI2 Incubator FM Stack
• Applied AI Product Development Support
• Access to AI Researchers
• Significant Recruiting Help
• Access to AI Talks, Knowledge Sharing
• Product Strategy Guidance
• UX/UI Product Design Support
• Potential Pilot Customer Intros
• Private AI Founder Community Access
• Corporate Counsel Intros
• Visas & Immigration Support
• Coworking Desks in Seattle

Phase 3: Fundraising (can be accomplished in as little as 30 days)

Great products need an engine around them to scale properly and that engine needs capital.

• Business Model & Market Strategy Guidance
• Intellectual Property Strategy Guidance
• Seed Fundraising Process Execution
• Pitch Deck Design/Storytelling Help
• Pitch Deck Presentation Practice
• Endorsement & Credibility (w/ Investors)

SUCCESS/TRACTION TO DATE:

(Learn more at ai2incubator.com/companies)

In just a few short years, we have now helped to create 25+ startups that have raised $170M+ in funding. This small group has now achieved a collective valuation of $900M+ and counting, with 5 companies raising Series A and counting, and one company raising Series B (a remarkably high breakout rate). Further, these startups have now created over 700+ jobs, and at least two have exited. Read more about some of our track record here:

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/apple-buys-edge-based-ai-startup-xnor-ai-for-a-reported-200m/
• https://www.geekwire.com/2021/silicon-valley-firm-khosla-ventures-makes-rare-seattle-investment-leading-11m-round-lexion/
• https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-vets-land-10m-whylabs-seattle-startup-monitors-machine-learning-models/
• https://www.geekwire.com/2021/wellsaid-labs-raises-10-million-boost-synthetic-voice-business-fueled-ai/
• https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/inno/stories/fundings/2022/07/31/ozette-series-a-madrona.html
• https://www.geekwire.com/2022/seattle-ai-startup-that-helps-professionals-improve-public-speaking-by-analyzing-speech-raises-6m/
• https://www.geekwire.com/2022/napster-co-founder-leads-secretive-seattle-startup-that-just-raised-3-5m-to-supercharge-productivity/
• https://www.geekwire.com/2022/stealthy-digital-health-startup-measure-labs-raising-cash-for-remote-care-tech/

OUR UNIQUE ADVANTAGES:

(Learn more at ai2incubator.com)

1) Strategic Relationship with AI2: The Allen Institute for AI (AI2)—the birthplace of the AI2 Incubator—is a world-renowned institute that conducts research in key areas of AI: language, vision, machine learning, and commonsense reasoning. Annually, AI2 receives $100 million dollars in funding from the Paul Allen estate and other major donors. Known as inventors of seminal works in the field of artificial intelligence such as Yolo and ELMo, AI2 is a magnet for top technical talent, with 10,000+ people from around the world applying for jobs at AI2 each year. We are proud of our strategic relationship with AI2 that allows us to lean into the expertise of 200+ researchers, engineers, professors, and staff who have collectively published nearly 1,000+ research papers at premier AI conferences, with 30+ best paper awards. Further, the AI2 Incubator’s Technical Director Oren Etzioni founded and led AI2 as CEO for 9 years. Vu Ha was a founding member of AI2 and led the development of Semantic Scholar from an idea to its public launch. And more.

2) Private Community of AI-First Founders: We have a vibrant group of dozens of active founders and successful alumni in our community. We gather together on a regular basis in our office, our Slack workspace, and at events that we host on a monthly basis. These amazing people may become your coaches, friends, knowledge-sharing partners, and more, all working together to help each other succeed.

3) Applied Foundation Models Expertise: Large-scale foundation models such as GPT and DALL-E have taken the world of AI by storm. Previous AI tasks—from text categorization to object detection—can now be accomplished with much less curated labeled data. This is huge for many companies building AI solutions using prior technologies. However, the new and even more exciting frontier is the exploration of using foundation models to generate things from email prose to software code, from design artifacts to visual arts. Companies such as Hugging Face and Stability AI continue to make steady progress making foundation models easily accessible, and the cost of training and running these types of models continues to decrease rapidly. We have a ton of experience in turning these important technological advances into impactful products and companies.

4) And Much More: Once you have capital and early customer usage, now it's time to scale your business. But there are lots of ways to do this, and each has its own pros and cons: Expand your customer base? Expand your product offering? Expand your geographical reach? Expand your team? How do you prioritize? How do you know if you’re making the right decisions? We’ve been there multiple times and we can help you work through them to success. Who knows what the future will hold for your startup, or for the world of AI. Perhaps it will fulfill its promise and usher in a new era of prosperity and enlightenment, or maybe it will just usher in a new era of low-quality cat videos. Only time will tell. Regardless, you will face many challenges. But whatever they are, we’ll tackle them together. We’re your cofounder, every step of the way.

DIVERSITY:

At the AI2 Incubator, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in our wider entrepreneurship community. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal entrepreneurial support opportunities are available to all founders without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our founders is critical to the success of our incubator and our spin-outs, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Invitation to our incubator program is decided purely on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Please complete the form below! If you'd like to check out open roles at our startups as well, you can see those and apply here: https://jobs.ai2incubator.com/jobs.

Important note: If you have a team, you can submit just one application for one person in the group. Just mention in your comments below that you are part of a team.

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ABOUT US

We are an early stage startup using generative AI to fundamentally change life sciences research and accelerate the pace of biomedical discovery.

Genomic data are at the heart of most modern molecular studies and tools, from basic research to clinical decision support, but these data are hard to work with. Genomic data require expensive laboratories, sophisticated computational infrastructure, and big teams to produce and analyze. Generating and analyzing genomic data takes weeks or months. We’re building generative AI models to cut that time down to minutes or hours.

Our platform addresses a huge need in the large and rapidly growing use of genomics in research, from basic science to therapeutic development. mRNA therapeutics alone - a subset of the overall market we serve - is projected to be a $100 billion market by 2026. This is an opportunity to be part of a mission to transform life sciences R&D by dramatically accelerating the pace of discovery.

WHO WE ARE

Our team has dedicated their careers to moving the needle in biomedical research and education and has a deep understanding of how to build a transformative product in this space. Our founders each have ~20 years of experience in life sciences, genomic data generation and analysis, and AI/ML and data science. Our team has leading experts in the design, execution, collection, and application of AI/ML methods to large biological studies; has previously led and scaled startups; and are experts in scientific training and enablement. We have lived the problem and are ready to solve it!

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THIS ROLE

We are looking for a founding bioinformatician who wants to join our mission and be an early part of building our AI-powered platform at the intersection of machine learning and life sciences discovery.

You will help to set and build out our data and bioinformatics platform architecture and long-term technical vision:

• Be part of the founding team to develop and iterate roadmap for data and bioinformatics platform development
• Lead feature prioritization for bioinformatics product vision – to make genomic data analysis easy
• Collaborate with ML experts to design generative AI models
• Apply experiences and insights on the challenges and bottlenecks within current approaches/tools used in genomic data analytics to our vision that reimagines how biologists and bioinformaticians gain biological insights
• Work closely with customers to ensure customer focus and incorporate feedback into platform infrastructure and product
• Recruit and build out our data and bioinformatics team

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

The best candidates do not always match the limited criteria mentioned in the job description. If you are excited about our vision and feel that you could be a valuable asset to our team, please apply.

This role requires experience with analyzing genomic sequencing data; the exact types of data and analyses can vary, but a desire and ability to learn quickly is essential. An interest in applying your skills to our mission is the key ingredient.

Tech skills

• Fluency with data manipulation and processing in R and/or Python (e.g., dplyr and pandas)
• Experience quantifying gene expression from bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data, including QC, expression estimation, normalization, etc.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Singularity) and workflow managers (Nextflow, WDL, CWL, etc.)
• Experience with high-throughput sequencing, Ilumina sequencing protocols, library generation
• Excitement about generative AI and interest in employing AI to change how science happens
• Desired: Experience managing and working with large datasets in the cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Experience

• Experience and perspective that empathizes with and represents the voices of life sciences customers
• Capability and/or experience in common genomic data analysis workflows, including use of standard tools, languages, and packages (e.g., Seurat, Scanpy, kallisto, etc.)
• Experience in bioinformatics/computational role at a commercial biotech company
• Experience with creating product specifications, workflows, and testing frameworks
• No minimum number of years or degree requirements, provided demonstrated understanding of the range of approaches and tools used in end-to-end genomic data analysis
• Desired: Ideally, you have led an informatics, data science, or computational group or project at a commercial biotech company

Approach

• Customer-focused
• Open-minded and adaptable; willing to change focus and direction quickly in response to product/market demands
• Comfortable working both independently and in close collaboration with your own team as well as other teams with complementary expertise
• Strong communication and desire to be a key player
• Focused on identifying, developing, and mentoring junior team members

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US

Our founders have strong reputations as thoughtful, forward-thinking colleagues and mentors who cultivate talent. We’ll think intentionally and collaboratively about your career and how we build our team. Our founders’ experiences in workforce development and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our approach.

• Impact — Our platform will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and therapy development to advance human health. This is an opportunity to build something from the ground up, define a new product, and lead a team over time in a space that has a real, positive impact.
• Early employee impact — As a member of the very early team, you will play a pivotal role in helping shape our product, team, and culture. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction. It looks great on a resume, too.
• Early stage equity — A benefit of joining early. None of us (neither our founders nor our investors) would be here if we didn’t think that our company will create tremendous value over time.
• Salary — We are a startup. You can expect salary raises that bring you closer to market rates as we grow. Plus, you’ll have the energy and excitement of a startup and the unique benefits and learning opportunities of taking an early risk.
• Flexible location and hours – We are whole people with whole lives and expect that you are, too. We’ll trust each other to make progress as a team, in times and places that work for everyone. Preference for Seattle area. Travel to Seattle will be required from time to time – it’s a beautiful city!
• Visa support - We cannot provide visa support at this time.

About the AI2 Incubator

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: This job post is managed by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). AI2's job posts may include open roles for third parties, where applications are coordinated with the hiring party. By submitting your application, you hereby consent to AI2 processing your information as described in its Privacy Policy. You further consent to AI2's disclosure of your information and application materials to AI2 Incubator Inc. or AI2 Incubator startup companies.

ABOUT US

We are an early stage startup using generative AI to fundamentally change life sciences research and accelerate the pace of biomedical discovery.

Genomic data are at the heart of most modern molecular studies and tools, from basic research to clinical decision support, but these data are hard to work with. Genomic data require expensive laboratories, sophisticated computational infrastructure, and big teams to produce and analyze. Generating and analyzing genomic data takes weeks or months. We’re building generative AI models to cut that time down to minutes or hours.

Our platform addresses a huge need in the large and rapidly growing use of genomics in research, from basic science to therapeutic development. mRNA therapeutics alone - a subset of the overall market we serve - is projected to be a $100 billion market by 2026. This is an opportunity to be part of a mission to transform life sciences R&D by dramatically accelerating the pace of discovery.

WHO WE ARE

Our team has dedicated their careers to moving the needle in biomedical research and education and has a deep understanding of how to build a transformative product in this space. Our founders each have ~20 years of experience in life sciences, genomic data generation and analysis, and AI/ML and data science. Our team has leading experts in the design, execution, collection, and application of AI/ML methods to large biological studies; has previously led and scaled startups; and are experts in scientific training and enablement. We have lived the problem and are ready to solve it!

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THIS ROLE

We are looking for a head of machine learning who wants to join our mission and be an early part of building our AI-powered platform at the intersection of machine learning and life sciences discovery.

You will help to set and build out our machine learning program and long-term technical vision:

• Be part of the founding team to develop and iterate roadmap for model development
• Build generative models for experimental biology data
• Develop and implement evaluation framework and metrics for models
• Apply experiences and insights on the challenges to building forward-focused models that can transform how life sciences data are generated, analyzed, and interpreted
• Recruit and build out our machine learning team

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

The best candidates do not always match the limited criteria mentioned in the job description. If you are excited about our vision and feel that you could be a valuable asset to our team, please apply.

This role requires experience with building AI/ML models. The exact types of models can vary, but a desire and ability to learn quickly is essential. An interest in applying your skills to our mission is the key ingredient.

Tech skills

• Experience building generative models using PyTorch, Tensorflow, JAX, or similar
• Knowledge of common generative architectures, including transformer and diffusion models
• Experience training and deploying AI/ML models in production environments
• Knowledge of cloud computing environments and privacy-preserving architectures
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of key MLops, including model training, hosted inference options, and both batch and stream processing.

Experience

• Creating ML teams and models from scratch
• Experience in model development and deployment at scale in either large tech or growth- stage startup companies
• Building models that are relevant to highly technical scientific domains
• No minimum number of years or degree requirements, provided demonstrated understanding of the range of approaches needed (e.g., model architectures, cloud infrastructure, etc.)
• Desired: Ideally, you have recruited, managed, and led a machine learning team
• Desired: Ideally, you have some exposure to or interest in learning about genomic measurement technologies and life sciences research

Approach

• Innovation-focused
• Open-minded and adaptable; willing to change focus and direction quickly in response to product/market demands
• Comfortable working both independently and in close collaboration with your own team as well as other teams with complementary expertise
• Strong communication and desire to be a key player
• Focused on identifying, developing, and mentoring junior team members

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US

Our founders have strong reputations as thoughtful, forward-thinking colleagues and mentors who cultivate talent. We’ll think intentionally and collaboratively about your career and how we build our team. Our founders’ experiences in workforce development and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our approach.

• Impact — Our platform will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and therapy development to advance human health. This is an opportunity to build something from the ground up, define a new product, and lead a team over time in a space that has a real, positive impact.
• Early employee impact — As a member of the very early team, you will play a pivotal role in helping shape our product, team, and culture. For the rest of our days, no matter how many thousands of people join after you, you will always have that honor and distinction. It looks great on a resume, too.
• Early stage equity — A benefit of joining early. None of us (neither our founders nor our investors) would be here if we didn’t think that our company will create tremendous value over time.
• Salary — We are a startup. You can expect salary raises that bring you closer to market rates as we grow. Plus, you’ll have the energy and excitement of a startup and the unique benefits and learning opportunities of taking an early risk.
• Flexible location and hours – We are whole people with whole lives and expect that you are, too. We’ll trust each other to make progress as a team, in times and places that work for everyone. Preference for Seattle area. Travel to Seattle will be required from time to time – it’s a beautiful city!
• Visa support - We cannot provide visa support at this time.

About the AI2 Incubator:

The AI2 Incubator helps entrepreneurs come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, refine their product, work with research paper authors to incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding. They have a strategic relationship with the Allen Institute for A.I.—a world-leading research institute with over 200 A.I. PhDs, researchers, engineers, and support staff—allowing them to dive deep into the latest tech and access one of the most talented groups of researchers.

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