Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research and Model Development

About Tome

You may know Tome from our awesome AI slide generation tool. Now we’re expanding our offering with a platform for sales teams, powered by our own custom LLMs.

Our AI sales assistant is focused on the work that goes on before the presentation can be created: the deep research to understand the customer, what they care about most, and which aspects of the seller’s product can help them succeed.

About the role

Tome's AI/ML team builds the experiences at the core of our product, developing new applications to wow our customers.

Today, the team focused on building a powerful, domain-specific AI that outperforms generic LLMs

We’re inspired by the challenge of creating innovative new AI products for people doing serious work, and we’re looking to grow our AI/ML team to meet that challenge.

What you'll do

• Create and ship magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences that sales teams can’t live without
• Craft Tome's AI/ML strategy in tight collaboration with founders and execs
• Pioneer the training of new models that leverage both historical data and synthetic training data
• Prototype innovative, LLM-powered experiences, and drive their development into robust product features
• Help build a world class AI/ML engineering team by recruiting and mentoring teammates

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of industry experience in NLP, with a strong portfolio of model training
• You have a strong understanding of deep learning AI/ML frameworks or cloud services
• You have hands-on ML Ops experience
• You possess deep expertise in NLP and model training, specifically with LLMs
• Proven experience adapting open-source generative models for specific use cases, demonstrating a deep understanding of its architecture and capabilities

Bonus Points

• Proven track record of leading successful AI/ML research projects in a product environment
• Publications in applied AI/ML scientific journals
• Experience navigating open source/vendor solutions in LLM ops space (Langchain, Llama, Pinecone, etc)

Tome Perks:

💰 Compensation & Equity 

• We offer competitive compensation & equity packages. At Tome we want you to feel ownership over the work you do and capitalize on the upside you create in the company.

🏝 Unlimited PTO 

• Take the time you need to with unlimited vacation days.

🏩 Full Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Coverage

• Choose the coverage that suits you.

🛌 Sick Leave 

• Unlimited. Take the days you need to feel your best and do your best work.

👼 Parental Leave 

• Tome offers 3 months of paid time off for maternity & paternity leave.

💸 Retirement 

• Tome offers a 401k plan through Human Interest

🍱 Weekly Lunch Stipend 

• Weekly UberEats credit to order a favorite meal.

🚎 Commuter Benefits 

• For those in the Bay Area we offer: up to $25/day in parking ($350 for a monthly pass) & Muni/Bart rides (up to $350/month).