Member of Technical Staff
Thesis (YC F25) · San Francisco, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Who You Are
- You have trained real ML models
- You have hands-on experience training machine learning models, whether in deep learning, reinforcement learning, evolutionary search, optimization, or related areas.
- You are strong at systems
- You have built reliable backend, cloud, distributed, or infrastructure systems.
- You can reason about scalability, fault tolerance, orchestration, observability, and performance.
- You have research taste
- You have research experience in CS, ML, AI, or a related field.
- Publishations at top conferences like ICLR, NeurIPS, or ICML are a plus, but we care more about your ability to reason from first principles, run good experiments, and make progress on hard problems.
What You’ll Work On
- Autonomous R&D systems
- Design workflows for hypothesis generation, experiment planning, model training, evaluation, debugging, and iteration.
- The hill-climbing engine
- Build systems that search large spaces of architectures, hyperparameters, datasets, losses, and training procedures, using each result to improve the next experiment.
- Frontier AI infrastructure
- Engine the APIs, schedulers, queues, storage, and observability that run many experiments reliably in parallel across models, datasets, and GPUs.
- Recursive improvement loops
- Create systems where better models produce better experiments, and better experiments produce better models.