AI Researcher

7 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Sahara Full time

About Us

Sahara AI is a decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes AI sovereignty and provenance, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users.

Our platform is backed by top investors in AI and crypto, including Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, Matrix Partners, and many more.

We are trusted by 35+ leading tech innovators and research institutions, such as Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson Group, and Snap.

Sahara Labs, the driving force behind Sahara AI, is an AI and blockchain infrastructure company led by USC Professor and AI veteran Sean Ren and former Binance Labs investment director Tyler Zhou.

We envision a future where AI is equitable, transparent, ethical, and accessible to all through AI asset sovereignty and open technology.


Our Mission

To empower everyone to own and shape the future of AI through building a decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes AI sovereignty, equity, and accessibility.


Our Principles

  • Trust & Security: We utilize blockchain technology to ensure secure, private data ownership.
  • Innovation: We develop AI-driven solutions for innovative knowledge utilization and monetization.
  • Fairness & Diversity: We provide fair and universal access to global knowledge for every human.


Fields of Research

Pioneering Research:

Collaborate with USC INK lab and embark on exploratory research areas like Human-in-the-loop machine learning, Model Explanatory, Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning, Collective Intelligence, and Human-machine integration.


Business-Oriented Machine Learning:

Build deep learning models for multi-modal understanding and recommendation to shape our unique services like our task distribution platform which connects AI demands with data labelers.

Our clientele includes tech giants and star startups.


AI Co-pilots Development:

Dive into the tide of LLM/Agent & AIGC applications.

With our business closely related to the trailblazers in AI, you'll keep track of the AI industry's trend and optimize accordingly by providing handy workflow assistance AI.


Minimum Qualifications

Undergraduate or graduate students in Computer Science, Data Science, Math or related fields, as well as degree holders.

Inquisitive Mind:

An enthusiasm to learn and explore the uncharted territories of AI, ML, and related fields.

Problem-solving mindset with a passion for innovation and experimentation.

Can commit to an internship period of more than 4 months (depends on proficiency).


Bonus

Proficiency in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar.

Be familiar with one of the following field (or any related)

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Computer Vision (CV)

Recommender system

Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models


What We Offer

Shape the future of AI and Blockchain

Work closely with pioneering AI companies and startups.

Highly competitive compensation.

Support for career and professional development.


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