Senior/Staff AI Engineer

About the Role:

You.com is hiring a Senior/Staff AI Engineer to lead the development of AI across both Generative AI (e.g. LLMs) and Search. This role is dedicated to researching, building, and deploying new product experiences using the latest advances in AI that push the boundaries of what AI assistants can do.

Responsibilities:

• Augment and manage the core you.com LLM & AI infra as well as surrounding backend infrastructure.

• Drive the development of new projects from ideation to deployment. This includes deep expertise in areas such as early ideation & prototyping, research, infrastructure, scalability, monitoring, and evaluation of AI systems.

• Ability to quickly iterate on a product based on user feedback in a rapidly changing environment.

Qualifications:

• Excellent programming and systems understanding

• Independently driven and holds themselves to very high standards

Nice-to-have:

• BS/PhD/MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas

• Strong experience shipping and scaling AI products to a large number of users

• Ability and a deep desire to do both research and core engineering work

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent, and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists, Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for the field of NLP, particularly in the areas of word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.

Our Perks :

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings.

• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge. 

• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered.

• 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US, additional time off is also considered

• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025

• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date

• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals

• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year 

• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research.