Senior AI/ML Engineer Job at Avy, Remote

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  • Avy
  • Remote

Job Description

Founding Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer

Company Overview

Avy is a well-funded stealth-stage startup that is revolutionizing how people work with each other and their computers. Our vision is to create a future where humans and computers work together side-by-side in seamless collaboration. We believe in the power of teamwork, trust, and the potential for humans and computers to enhance each other's capabilities. With this vision in mind, we are building innovative software solutions that empower individuals and teams to achieve their best work.

What You Will Do

As a Founding Senior AI / ML Engineer at Avy, you will play a central role in bringing our product vision to life and have exceptional prospects for growth in a fast-paced environment. This is a hands-on role where you will have the chance to wear multiple hats and build high-quality software that bridges the gap between humans and computers. Your work will involve:

  • Foundational Development: Establish the core of Avy's AI and machine learning systems, as the product scales to include local, on-device and privacy-sensitive processing combined with judicious use of cloud-hosted services operated by us and others.
  • Innovative Implementation: Bring your ideas to life in a dynamic team setting, embracing various roles in the early stages.
  • Guide the development of new datasets for model training and improvement; this could include generating synthetic data, designing a strategy for remotely collected telemetry, and implementing privacy-preserving techniques.
  • Leverage both proprietary and open source software, models, and datasets, potentially with modification or fine-tuning
  • System Enhancement: Fine-tune our search, retrieval, and knowledge graph systems for optimal performance.
  • Technological Exploration: Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and ML, assessing their applicability to our products and future directions.

Skills You Will Need

  • Intellectual curiosity combined with a pragmatic, results-driven approach.
  • Ability to select appropriate technological solutions, balancing innovation with practicality.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of collaborating with a diverse team whose strengths are in engineering, product, design, and business, not only AI or math.
  • Knowledge of and experience selecting and working with various AI and ML model architectures, especially for NLP, image, and audio processing. Able to explain how a Transformer model works.
  • Experience with LLMs, both open-weight and commercial
  • Experience improving models running in production settings, using data, telemetry, and feedback.
  • Skilled in common data science programming with languages like Python

Ideal Candidate Skills

  • Experience fine-tuning open-weight LLMs and other models
  • Knowledge of typed languages (C, C++, Swift, Go)
  • Familiarity with knowledge graphs, search, and information retrieval.
  • An advanced degree in computer science, math, physics, statistics, neuroscience, data science, or other technical fields is desired but not required

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary complemented by meaningful equity incentives.
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including 401K with company match, HSA, health, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance.
  • Paid time off.
  • Developer-worthy equipment and tools are provided to ensure you have all you need to excel.
  • Nearly endless opportunities for growth and advancement as the company succeeds and meets its objectives.
  • Avy follows a 'pragmatic hybrid' work approach, combining the benefits of remote work with the undeniable value of occasionally scheduled in-person collaboration. While you can be based anywhere in the USA, there will be occasional travel to our offices in Utah and future locations, such as New York City.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion, creating a welcoming environment for all.

Additional Information

  • Avy only accepts candidates who reside and are authorized to work in the U.S.

Join us at Avy and be part of a team founded by industry experts with a track record of success at companies like Apple, Microsoft, Bose, Amazon, and high-growth startups. Together, let's build a future where humans and computers work together in harmony.

Apply now with your resume and a cover letter that showcases your passion and fit for this role.

Job Tags

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