Staff AI Research Engineer, you.com
$225-250k
+ Equity and bonus
AI productivity platform
Job no longer available
AI productivity platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$225-250k
+ Equity and bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world’s information useful for everyone through its privacy-first personalized search engine.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience training, fine-tuning, improving, and maintaining large-scale LLMs
- Excellent programming and systems understanding
- Independently driven and holds themselves to very high standards
Desirable
- PhD/MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
- Experience building distributed systems for search, crawling the web, and data pipelines
What the job involves
- You.com is hiring a Staff AI Research Engineer to lead the development of AI across both LLM and Search
- This role is dedicated to pushing the state-of-the-art in what is capable for LLMs and Search
- Architect and build data pipelines for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating LLMs
- Optimize LLM inference for speed and quality
- Augment and manage the core infrastructure of you.com LLMs and the surrounding model management and orchestration
Our take
Google has maintained its status as a household name for online search engines since the '90s. Since then, however, it has become rife with sponsored advertisements, privacy issues, and one-size-fits-all search results, showing a vast area of space for improvement.
You.com provides a privacy-first personalized search engine, allowing users to integrate apps and personal preferences into the browser extension to optimize their search results based on what they are looking for. The search engine also guarantees that search history and cookies will not be logged by the company, in addition to preventing websites and advertisers from tracking browsing habits.
Whilst the company's competition from the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine giants is fierce, You.com shows great potential having served 1B queries and boasting millions of active users. With a 500% increase in ARR since January 2024 and a recent $560M Series B Funding round, the company is rapidly scaling, becoming a rising player in the AI and search space.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$2.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $97.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company values
- Trust: Transparency in sources
- Facts: Citations for everything
- Kindness: Consideration towards all users
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at you.com
- You.com is an equal opportunity employer: your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status don’t matter. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace that is effectively distributed around the world
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