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The Foundation Model for Human Psychology
  • B2B
  • Growth Stage
    Expanding market presence
  • Recently funded
    Raised funding in the past six months

Member of Technical Staff

Posted: 4 months ago
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Hiring contact

Daniel Cahn

About the job

We're a team of machine learning engineers training task-specific generative models for psychology. Our goal is to build an AI therapist to help people change their mind and their lives in the ways that they want to. We partner with organizations around the globe and power use cases, including AI-assisted crisis text response, while securing best-in-class datasets to power our models.

Success to us means every human being in need of support having somewhere to go. We're a well-funded, seed-stage startup backed by top-tier tech investors involved in Huggingface, ElevenLabs, Replit, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and others

We're building a powerful team by empowering our engineers with the autonomy, flexibility, and resources to do their best work. We dream big and iterate fast. If that sounds like home, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

As Member of Technical Staff, you’ll work with our founding team across ML research and product development. You may work on data collection, curation, continued pre-training, ablation studies, evals, creation of hand-crafted supervised fine-tuning data, preference optimization, and state-of-the-art reinforcement learning research. You'll also contribute to our end-user product, improving user experience through your work on our models and model orchestration. You’ll be able to work at a faster pace than almost anywhere else while writing high-quality code and producing meaningful scientific insights.

You’ll be primarily working with 70B parameter models as well as fine-tuning GPT-4o, through our partnership with OpenAI. You will be responsible for reading papers and identifying state-of-the-art techniques for us to learn from. Our application backend is written in Kotlin and our ML stack (PyTorch) utilizes modern tooling in the ML space, including some that we’ve developed in-house. We write high-quality, typed, Zen code.

About you:

Note: We expect our MTS to be highly autonomous and intelligent individuals who may not fit our exact mould. Feel free to apply even if you don't exactly have the right experience.

  • 5+ years developing deep learning models in PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX, include 3+ years in a production environment.

  • Experience fine-tuning language models, like Llama.

  • Experience with software engineering on a product, e.g. React, Swift, Kotlin, Java, etc., including a strong understanding of modern software architectures.

  • You're fast-paced and pragmatic. You'd rather prove out an idea through quick MVP code than present a slide deck to explain it.

  • You can explain complex ideas to non-technical people

  • You understand why deep learning is magic.

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation (90th percentile)

  • Hybrid environment, highly collaborative, fast-paced culture

  • Work with a crazy passionate team that cares deeply about the impact of our work on mental health, especially in a post-AGI world

About the company

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The Foundation Model for Human Psychology11-50 Employees
Company Size
11-50
Company Type
Artificial Intelligence
Company Industries
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • B2B
  • Growth Stage
    Expanding market presence
  • Recently funded
    Raised funding in the past six months
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Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$6M
FUNDED OVER
1 round
Round
S
$6,000,000
Seed - May 2022

Perks

Healthcare benefits
Retirement benefits
Equity benefits
Remote friendly
Company meals
We cover lunch daily!
Pet-friendly office
Professional development
Company events

Founders

Daniel Cahn
CEO • 3 years
New York City
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