Member of Technical Staff, Research/ML Data Engineer
About the Role
You are an experienced engineer who will be instrumental in building the world's best LLMs by collecting and refining the essential training data that powers them. In pursuit of the best language models, your responsibility is twofold:
- First, identify and collect data at the scale required to feed our largest models. This involves managing a diverse set of sources, including structured and unstructured content from text and multimedia formats. Your engineering expertise is crucial in crafting the infrastructure and tools necessary to efficiently collect and manage petabytes of data.
- Second, you will experiment with various methods of extracting a balanced and comprehensive training dataset from the raw data. You will leverage your expertise in data to build datasets reflecting a hypothesis, train models, and evaluate experimental results. Through this experimentation, you will create the training datasets for our largest models.
These are critical steps in the construction of AI. With petabytes of data and numerous design decisions, each step requires careful attention. Expertise in AI is not necessary, but enthusiasm for the space and a track record of adapting to new domains is important.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of production software engineering experience
- Experience building large scale data processing pipelines, with tools like PySpark, Beam, or Flink
- Familiarity with Machine Learning and NLP and willingness to learn more on the job
- Track record of adapting to new domains and a desire to use data to improve products
Nice-to-haves
- ML experience as a ML engineer, Data Scientist, or another similar role
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, or tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform
- Passionate about Conversational AI or large language models
Employee Pay Disclosures
At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. The pay range for this position in California, is estimated to fall in the base range of approximately $150,000 - $250,000. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range.
Where We Work
We have offices in Palo Alto and London. We’re currently hiring into our brand new office in Palo Alto. We’re in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays (and some of us are in five days a week). Inflection believes in building a strong in-person work culture with the flexibility of focus time at home.
We work on a 6 week cycle. Every 7th week, we convene together in person as a company to brainstorm, bond and build.
About Inflection
Inflection was created to give everyone their own personal AI. We are creating a humble, empathetic, kind and very capable AI called Pi. Our mission is to make intelligence and kindness available to every person in the world. This is an era of exponential change. Our name Inflection embraces this moment of transformation, whilst our status as a public benefit corporation provides us with the legal mandate to prioritize the well-being and happiness of our users and wider stakeholders above all else.
Co-founded by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan, we are a team of AI technologists, engineers and designers. Our intention is for Inflection to create personal AIs that amplify the best parts of being human for the benefit of all.
How We Work
We value excellence and ownership. Our organizational structure focuses on individual responsibilities rather than management hierarchies. Everyone is expected to lead by doing. We are big believers in the unreasonable effectiveness of highly talented Individual Contributors who are given all the resources, space and ownership to move fast and deliver outstanding results.
Teamwork and generosity are at our core. Our culture celebrates positive challenges, asking questions, learning and actively supporting one another. This mentality of shared respect and purposeful teamwork is key to our success. We equally value all technical and non-technical contributions.
Constructive disagreement is essential. We appreciate when team members challenge assumptions, put forward new ideas, or encourage us to move faster or slower. Openness, honesty and kindness make us great.
Feedback is our ground truth. We have a tight feedback loop between the user experience and our AI creation process. Quantitative and qualitative data drives our priorities. This goes for internal culture too. Everyone has ownership and visibility into key decisions and progress.
Writing creates accountability. Whether on internal communication tools or in team memos, we are strong communicators with a special focus on the written word.
We deeply value time to reset outside of work. We encourage one another to constantly take time to recharge and always focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Engineering at Inflection
We are a vertically integrated AI studio. This means that our entire technology stack – from large foundational model pre-training to the user interface – is built in-house, with each of the components co-optimized to deliver the best AI experiences. We have built one of the most advanced large language models in the world, based on multiple novel and proprietary innovations.
We believe in scale as the engine of progress in AI, and we are building one of the largest supercomputers in the world to develop and deploy the new generation of AIs.
We wear multiple hats and don’t distinguish between engineering and research. We continuously explore and exploit, creating new and perfecting existing techniques and solutions. User feedback is our North Star.
Our Benefits
We offer generous benefits to ensure a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring work environment for all Inflectioneers.
- Physical office space in Palo Alto and London, along with reimbursements for work from home expenses and co-working spaces
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
- Generous medical, dental and vision plans for US employees
- Compliance with country-specific benefits for non-US employees
- Visa sponsorship for new hires
- Avenues for personal growth such as coaching, conference attendance, or specific trainings
Diversity & Inclusion
We are building personal AIs that we hope will serve everyone. We are deeply committed to representing the full extent of the human experience inside our AI Studio. This means that everyone from any walk of life is welcome if you have the right skills. We populate diverse candidate pools for all open roles.