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Founding Engineer in USA

  • San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

  • Develop a foundational model from the ground up using a novel architecture.
  • Work across model architecture, training, and reinforcement learning.
  • Establish the engineering foundations for an early-stage AI team.
  • Partner closely with the founding team as the first engineer.
  • Contribute as a hands-on individual engineer rather than primarily in a management role.

Requirements

  • PhD required.
  • Experience at a frontier AI lab required.
  • Hands-on individual-contributor engineering experience required.
  • Experience spanning foundational model architecture, training, and reinforcement learning required.

Benefits

  • Base salary up to $400,000 plus equity.
  • On-site work in San Jose, California.

Salary: $400k - $400k/yr

Clera

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