Remote AI Research Engineer

Summary

Connectly is seeking an experienced AI Research Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The role involves improving the company's AI sales assistant, contributing new experiment ideas, leading dataset collection efforts, and collaborating with ML and Data engineers. The position offers competitive pay, significant equity, remote work, health insurance, unlimited time off, flexible hours, a supportive environment, and more.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Agentic systems with task-specific models
• Experience iterating AI products based on customer feedback

Benefits

• An amazing team to work with
• Competitive pay & significant equity
• Remote role
• 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