Tech Lead, Imbue
$200-450k
+ $10,000–$2,500,000 in equity
Training AI in reasoning
Open for applications
Training AI in reasoning
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-450k
+ $10,000–$2,500,000 in equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To rekindle the dream of the personal computer—by creating practical AI agents that can accomplish larger goals and safely work for us in the real world.
Role
Who you are
- Someone who loves to code. This is a hands-on position and is not suitable for those who want to simply oversee projects.'
- Knowledgable and eager to keep up-to-date with best engineering practices
- Passionate about people, mentorship, and teaching, as a primary responsibility of yours is to help other engineers grow their technical skills
- Very proficient with Python
- Knowledgeable about machine learning. You don’t need to be a world-famous published researcher, but you should be comfortable with training deep neural networks and much of the latest machine learning theory and practice
What the job involves
- We are looking for a technical leader who can lead a strong team of versatile engineers both through direct guidance and by example
- You will provide guidance to team members on their technical projects, from pair programming and code reviews to empowering them to make higher-level decisions
- As an IC as well as a leader and mentor, you will play a key role in determining our technical strategy
- Code, a lot, as an IC to our technical roadmap
- Mentor and pair program with other engineers to help them develop their practical skills
- Perform code reviews and provide feedback so that other engineers can continually hone and improve their craft
- Help establish best practices and standards in our codebase to improve the quality of our systems
Application process
- We try to reply either way within a week or two at most (usually much sooner)
Our take
Since the widened attention placed on generative AIs such as Chat GPT, it seems that investors have intensified their interest in general intelligence. Imbue is one of the most recent AI research and training companies to step into the limelight after it achieved unicorn status in a $200 million Series B funding round in 2023.
With competition including the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, Imbue researches and improves the reasoning of AI models. Its focus on foundational AI means that its training has a wide range of lucrative applications. Using a full-stack approach (essentially building its tech from scratch) enables the creation of feedback loops that gradually develop even better AI models.
Imbue’s approach indicates an evolving sector that is benefiting from increased funding. A newcomer to the unicorn stage, it’ll be interesting to see if the company can match up to its competitors now it has been bolstered by impressive funding.
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Company benefits
- Equity options
- Yearly budget for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc
- Actively co-create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture
- Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work
- Frequent team events, dinners, off-sites, and hanging out
Company values
- We value in-person discourse, collaboration, and bonding
- We treat people like creative agents, not fixed assets
- We help you uncover and develop latent superpowers
- We value freedom, autonomy, and self-direction
- We provide context without adding to your todo list
- We care about craftsmanship and quality code
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Kanjun Qiu
(CEO)Current General Partner at Outset Capital and Sequoia Capital Scout. Previously CEO and Co-Founder at Sourceress and Member at South Park Commons.
Josh Albrecht
(CTO)Current General Partner at Outset Capital. Previous CTO at Sourceress, Member at South Park Commons, and Public Data Lead at Addepar.
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