Robotics Hardware Engineer, Hugging Face
All employees have company equity as part of their compensation package
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Community-driven platform for ML models
Open for applications
Community-driven platform for ML models
201-500 employees
Open for applications
All employees have company equity as part of their compensation package
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Hugging Face is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.
Role
Who you are
- Mechanical engineering: gears, actuators, material science, strength of materials, longevity testing, CAD modeling, 3D printing, casting, molding, laser cutting, etc
- Control system: PID controllers, modeling and simulation, real-time control systems for low response time, teleoperation, gravity compensation, etc
- Mechatronics: touch sensors, torque feedback, haptic feedback, electric motors, servos, hydraulic, pneumatic systems, tendon-drive, bio-inspired robotics, human-robot interaction, cute robots, safe robots, etc
- Interdisciplinary knowledge: ROS, python, C++, pytorch, neural networks, transformers, reinforcement learning, world-model, etc
- Above all, we are looking for someone who shares our commitment to open-source innovation and is excited about making cutting-edge technologies more accessible worldwide. If you're ready to join a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to advancing AI for robotics, we want to hear from you!
- If you don't tick every box above, we still encourage you to apply! We're building a diverse team whose skills, experiences, and background complement one another. We're happy to consider where you might be able to make the biggest impact
What the job involves
- You will be a core member of a small multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists from various backgrounds. Together, we will push the boundaries of what's possible in robotics and AI, with a focus on long term impact, scalable solutions, rapid iteration, and leveraging the open-source community
- Design, build, create tutorials and maintain open-source and affordable robotic hardware, 3D printed parts, off-the-shelf parts, electronic components
- Collaborate, learn from and share knowledge with a small multidisciplinary team
- Lead, organize and interact with a community of AI and hardware builders
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, research and developments in robotics and AI
- Communicate about your work on social platforms, organize hackathon and attend targeted top tier international conferences
Our take
Large language models, which recognize and generate text, are already being used to auto-complete sentences, power chat bots, moderate content, summarize news articles, and translate text online. However, many of these advances are happening behind closed doors, stifling innovation and raising ethicacy concerns.
To combat this, Hugging Face is building the "GitHub of machine learning". It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories, where developers can create, discover and collaborate on ML models, datasets and ML apps. This work led to the creation of BLOOM in 2022, an open-access LLM with similar architecture to OpenAI’s GPT, but that is multilingual by design.
The company also launched the Hugging Chat Assistant, an open-source tool to create personalised chat assistants, in direct competition to OpenAI's paid service ChatGPT Plus. By continually creating value based on a global community, not just for Microsoft or Google, HuggingFace should be able to carve out its own path for success.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2023
$235m
SERIES D
May 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $395.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Environment
- Health Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Equity
- Growth, Training, & Conferences
- Generous Parental Leave
Company values
- A strong bias for action and impact
- A generalist & diverse mindset
- A decentralized, progressive and nimble approach
- A kind ambition
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
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Leadership
Clem Delangue
(CEO)Created Moodstocks, a startup building machine learning for computer vision acquired by Google. Also built Mention where they were head of Product and CMO until the company was acquired by MyNewsDesk.
Julien Chaumond
(CTO)Former advisor for the Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs in Paris, and Senior engineer for Stupefix app that was acquired by GoPro. Also co-founded and was CTO of Glose.
Thomas Wolf
(CSO)After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique, they worked on laser-plasma interactions at the BELLA Center of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Also worked as a European Patent Attorney for 5 years.
People progressing
Lysandre started as an intern back in 2019 and now leads our Open Source team!
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hugging Face
Emily Witko (DEIB and People Generalist)
- DEIB, at its core, is simply a set of daily practices and behaviors shaped by values that help us understand each other better, respectfully, and with care, despite what we have learned and believe.
- We are a values-driven organization motivated by a shared mission – good ML. To achieve this mission, we must invest in our people. We must foster a diverse and inclusive culture where employees at every level feel empowered to do their best work, are comfortable speaking up and sharing different perspectives, and are met with a strong sense of belonging. A culture where all employees are recognized and valued for their contributions, awarded ample access to opportunity, and are held accountable for how they show up for each other
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