We are seeking an experienced AI research engineer to join our team, building
a state-of-the-art sales assistant. You'll work alongside other talented
research, ML, data, and software engineers to ship innovative agentic systems.
This is an in-person role at our San Francisco office (FIDI). Please be aware
that due to the low success rate of the H1B visa lottery, we are unable to
sponsor new visa applications.
**Responsibilities**
* Leverage state of the art research to improve our AI sales assistant
* Contribute new experiment ideas to the team
* Lead dataset collection/generation efforts
* Model/inference optimization
* Collaborate with ML and Data engineers on distributed training scripts
**Requirements**
* 3 years experience working with production AI systems
* At least 1 publication as first author
* Strong understanding of LLMs - should be able to build GPT-1 in NumPy and work out backpropagation by hand for transformer blocks.
* Strong understanding of ML fundamentals
* Experience with distributed training
* Some exposure to production inference
* Experience with PyTorch
**Bonus:**
* Experience building Agentic systems with task-specific models.
* Experience iterating AI products based on customer feedback. **We Offer:**
* An amazing team to work with
* Competitive pay & significant equity
* Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
* Unlimited Time Off
* Flexible Work Hours
* Top of the line workstation
* A supportive, caring and learning environment
* Connectly is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace that is distributed around the world.
Equity for this position depends on experience and the amount of equity may be
larger for this role then for other IC roles on the team.
We're looking to cultivate a highly creative, motivating, and collaborative
environment as we aim to move fast and build quickly. Talk to us if you are
interested!
