You.com is hiring a Staff AI Research Engineer to lead the development of AI across both LLM and Search. This role is dedicated to pushing the state-of-the-art in what is capable for LLMs and Search.
Architect and build data pipelines for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating LLMs.
Optimize LLM inference for speed and quality.
Augment and manage the core infrastructure of you.com LLMs and the surrounding model management and orchestration.
Strong experience training, fine-tuning, improving, and maintaining large-scale LLMs.
Excellent programming and systems understanding
Independently driven and holds themselves to very high standards
PhD/MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
Experience building distributed systems for search, crawling the web, and data pipelines.
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.
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.
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