Staff Software Engineer, AI

Summary

Join The Browser Company in building a better way to use the internet by creating a browser that can help users grow, create, and stay curious. As the first AI Engineer, you will work with product engineers to prototype and explore how to build a smarter, more personalized web browser with a focus on privacy-preserving, on-device models.

Requirements

• You have experience developing and productionizing modern machine learning models, especially ones that can run under tight power and performance constraints, in a real-world product environment
• You have experience with fine-tuning, distilling, and improving existing ML models
• You're passionate about prototyping product features and using pragmatic solutions to solve problems, biasing for fast feedback loops
• You’re experienced with Python and modern ML libraries
• You have experience as a technical lead on critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization
• You're pragmatic and can see the bigger picture. You're able to reason about prioritization and scope
• You have a bias for action. We like learning as quickly as possible, so we embrace failing fast to refine our code, systems, and processes rapidly

Responsibilities

• Scope and spearhead projects to fine-tune, distill, or train models for various features within Arc
• Push the boundaries of what on-device and privacy-safe AI and ML can be used for
• Work with Product Engineers, Product Designers, and Design Engineers to understand how we can use heuristics, neural networks, and LLMs to create magical experiences within Arc
• Build infrastructure to collect or generate training data for building or improving models
• Build ways for us to determine and track model performance and accuracy, and improve performance and accuracy over time

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 90% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate