DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, Inflection
Member of Technical Staff
$150-300k
Office located in Palo Alto, California
Human-AI interaction development
Job no longer available
Human-AI interaction development
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-300k
Office located in Palo Alto, California
21-100 employees
Company mission
To fundamentally redefine human-machine interaction.
Role
Who you are
- As an expert in reliability engineering and developer operations, you have an outstanding track record of deploying, running and monitoring systems at scale, with a high degree of autonomy
- You demonstrated the ability to do so based on a high-level description of problems while collaborating with a range of stakeholders
- You are excited to help build innovative products that allow people to interact with the latest-generation AI
- This is a good role for you if you have significant experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS), continuous integration and deployment
- We do not require a specific university degree or years of experience, instead we’re excited to see what you’ve been building. Please send us examples of your best work!
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- Interview: Interviews at Inflection proceed in two stages. When possible, we strive to do interviews in person
- First, you will have an initial conversation with the Hiring Contact or a Recruiter
- Following that, you will do up to 5 interviews with the team. Technical roles will do at least 2 deep technical screens, which comprise programming exercises, AI exercises, and general technical interviews. We might also invite you to do a take-home exercise or give a presentation. For a non-technical role, please prepare for a role-specific interview such as a portfolio review
- Decision: We strive to get back to you within one week from your final interview
Our take
Inflection AI is a young AI research company exploring the ways that humans and machines interact. Founded by DeepMind and LinkedIn co-founders, Inflection aims to eliminate the need for humans to simplify their instructions to machines, focussing on the complex and evolving LLM (Large Language Model) of AI development.
With substantial venture capital awarded in 2022 despite a noticeable drop in AI funding across the board, Inflection AI’s huge boost may come as a surprise to some. With the level of experience from both its founders and its Google and Meta-poached team, Inflection AI is embarking upon an area of research that is simultaneously lucrative and costly. LLM research uses a lot of power, but can be applied to many sectors, which is why Greylock Capital has been such a vital partner.
With calls from leading voices on the subject pleading for AI research to be stalled on account of the threats it poses, there may be more governmental red tape enforced around AI development over the next few years. As Inflection AI is at the forefront of LLM development, this would cost the well-funded company greatly.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2022
$225m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mustafa Suleyman
(CEO)Currently Venture Partner at Greylock. Previously VP of AI Product Management at Google, Co-Founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind, Co-Founder at Reos Partners.
Reid Hoffman
(Board Member)Currently Partner at Greylock and Board Member at Microsoft, Aurora, and Joby Aviation. Previously founded LinkedIn and Executive Vice President for PayPal.
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