Founding Machine Learning Engineer

3 weeks ago


New York, United States GPTZero Full time
Who are we?

GPTZero is the world's leading platform for verifying the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. In less than a year, GPTZero has been used by over 5M people around the world and is depended on by thousands of consumer and enterprise customers. We've been covered on the front page of the NYT, BBC, WSJ, WaPo, Fox, NPR, and CNN; and serve >2M unique users per month.

In March 2023, we raised a $3.5M seed round co-led by Uncork Capital and Neo with angel investments by the Altman Fund, the CEOs of Stability.ai and LatticeHQ, as well as the former CEOs of NYT, BBC, and Reuters. We're solving novel, challenging problems in NLP and ML, and deploying cutting-edge solutions to detect the origin and veracity of the information on the web.

We've built a team from Meta, Uber, Microsoft, Affirm, Bloomberg, and Robinhood, as well as AI research labs from Princeton, Vector, MILA, and Caltech. To continue our rapid growth, we're looking for people who are passionate about this mission to join us

What we're looking for

At GPTZero, we ensure that machine learning models are created for the benefit of humanity, not the other way around.

In this role, you'll build the next-gen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. The ideal candidate is someone who has a history of ML research, possesses a great product sense, and is also an excellent software engineer. You'll be working on a fast-paced team of passionate builders to create industry-defining software that has attracted over 2M users globally.

Responsibilities
  • Design, train, and fine-tune state-of-the-art large language models
  • Develop AI agents combined with retrieval-augmented language models
  • Build efficient and scalable ML training and inference systems
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest literature and emerging technologies to solve novel problems
  • Work closely with product and design teams to develop intuitive applications that create societal impact
Qualifications
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
  • Experience pushing the cutting-edge in machine learning
  • Self-starter (pitch, plan, and implement as a project owner in a fast-paced team)
  • Highly motivated to make positive societal impact
  • Ability to wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows
  • Visa for work in Canada or US
  • Bonus:
    • strong open-source portfolio
    • publications at top-tier ML venues
    • experience working in an early-stage startup environment
    • understanding of how machine learning models fail in the wild
Who you'll be joining

Our Team

You will be working directly with
  • Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML
  • George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research.
  • Olivia (our head of design) on translating your research into outputs for millions of users.
  • Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.
Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.

Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity

Our Angels and Advisors
  • Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO)
  • Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive)
  • Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman)
  • Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, co-author of OpenAI's original GPT paper)
  • Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI)
  • Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores)
  • Brad Smith (President of Microsoft)
  • Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital)
  • Ali Partovi (co-founder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb)
  • Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend)
  • Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI)
  • Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation)
Our Perks
  • Health, dental, and mental health benefits
  • Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices
  • Competitive salary
  • Equity (seed round was in March 2023, today, our metrics exceed many series A companies)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Regular company retreats
  • Mentorship opportunities with our world-class advisors and investors
  • Wellness and learning stipend


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