Data Scientist

1 week ago

Lafayette, United States AE Studio Full time

We are a development, data science and design studio that works closely with founders and executives to create custom software and machine learning solutions.

AE Studio is an LA-based company focused on increasing human agency while maintaining our ineffable culture and whimsy. If the work diminishes agency, we may simply decide to "eff" it after all. In our Venice CA office and our respective domiciles live a team of highly-skilled developers, data scientists, and dubiously-lucid humorists building agency-increasing products you may recall from such sentences as the one in this paragraph. We've worked with Samsung, Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, and other large, important entities you've probably heard of. Our work environment is fantastic for aspiring coders, calculators, and entrepreneurs. Also, we have neither VC, nor PE, nor other acronyms funding us. We have a weird business model where we sell our work for a profit and use those profits to pay people (I told you it was weird).

More specifically, we deploy the proceeds from our consulting work in development and data science and our skunkworks proceeds to support research into cause areas we think are of paramount interest to human beings. We have made a name for ourselves in cutting-edge brain computer interface (BCI) R&D, and now we want to replicate past successes and solve the problem of AI alignment (aligning future powerful systems with human best interests). We want to optimize for human agency, if you feel similarly, please apply to support our research efforts. Data scientists will have the opportunity between client projects to work on important alignment research, with the opportunity to potentially have your research project prioritized if particularly promising.

Do you have strong problem-solving skills? Do you have a disposition suited for self-management? Have you ever composed a Gilbert and Sullivan parody that would offend Victorian sensibilities? If you can say "yes" to two of those three questions, please apply
ABOUT YOU

  • Fluency in Python-used often, derided occasionally, and considered its eponymous reference to the best of British sketch comedy
  • Proven data science experience-primary or equal contributor, multiple smaller projects, management of steak-holders (so projects come out 'well-done')
  • Comfort with the statistics and methods deployed in classification problems-that is, the ability to see the random forest for the trees
  • Familiarity with NLP/NLU-even if this posting's language is a bit unnatural, we suspect you'll understand our process
  • Experience calling machine learning APIs via REST or client libraries - and determining that their responses lack wit, guile, and tact
  • Agile experience (worked with Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming)-or a sound literary understanding of Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," even if you don't speak French
  • Growth mindset - You had better be funnier after the first 90 days...
  • Willingness to learn our systems (wait, we have systems?)
  • Full-time availability-but if you have cool side projects that increase human agency, we totally want you to keep working on it...we'll even help
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently/autonomously
  • Ability to communicate effectively and work exclusively in English. This is a must, our ability to crack jokes in other languages is decidedly de rigeur...
BONUS POINTS FOR
  • Experience with self-managed data science projects-show us your cool side hustles, especially if they increase human agency or include obscure references
  • Software development background - We need help with syntax in English too...
  • Experience working with / building / training deep learning-based computer vision or NLP models or LLMs - extra double-secret bonus points for identifying Schroedinger's cat in a video
  • JavaScript / Node.js experience-require('sense of humor')
  • Clean Code, Unit Tests, Lather, Rinse, Repeat
  • Experience managing clients and client relationships-because, y'know, they pay us...
  • Experience in Startups-because, y'know, we kinda are one, or actually more like several startups all rolled into one
  • You care about AI alignment, and are optimistic in humanity's capacity to problem solve and safely navigate accelerating AI capabilities and have an awesome future
RECRUITING NOTE
  • There are an increasing number of scammers out there that are taking advantage of our company's name to scam people with fake offers that result in you ultimately giving the scammers money. Please make sure anyone who contacts you is contacting you from the domains ae.studio, agencyenterprise.com, agencyenterprisestudio.com (please make sure that the sender really is from those domains). If you have any questions about any interviews or offers you might have received and seem bogus, please contact recruiting-offers@ae.studio.

Equity

Working at AE means receiving equity in some of our client projects and in the Skunkworks projects we incubate. The equity granted is priced at a value of $0 when you receive it. If it were otherwise, you'd be forced to pay taxes. But to be clear, there are no free lunches, only the choice of who pays for your sandwich.

At AE, the equity you receive is not free to AE. We invest millions annually in Skunkworks projects - paying our employees to build technology for which no client pays a bill. We receive equity from certain clients, which means we accept less in terms of our billable rate. We then pass that equity on to our employees. Sure it's priced at $0 on day 1 - a call option on a stock trading at $100 with a strike price of $100 is priced at $0 today for tax purposes, but you'd want to receive that option. If you received that option on a dozen stocks, you'd be fairly confident that some of them would be worth a lot more than $0.

Offering this equity (by investing in Skunkworks or offering clients a lower rate) comes out of AE's margins. Theoretically, we should be lowering salaries to compensate. But we're competitive on that front as well. Over the long-term, we believe AE employees who stick around are likely to fare extremely well monetarily (no legal promises). We think long-term. You should too when you choose your employer.

We are looking to hire people who think long term. People create exponentially more value here in their 3rd or 4th year rather than their 1st or 2nd, and that only increases. The value you create leads to more equity issued every year, and you retain it while you remain at AE or at a Skunkworks co that spins out, in order to free up equity for others, which is how we afford to be generous with the equity.

* Disclaimer: If you leave AE on good terms, you can retain 20% of your equity if you continue to send leads our way, share our core values, etc. If you leave AE for your own AE-incubated Skunkworks project (or someone else's), you retain 100% of your equity. Folks create exponentially more value here in their 3rd and 4th years than their 1st or 2nd - we want folks who think long-term like we do.

Salary range from $120k/year to $220k/year. Not in the range? That's fine, you can still apply and our team may fit you in a more senior position that we're not actively hiring right now, but we are growing fast and may have other openings soon.

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