Member of Technical Staff, Contextual AI

Research

$150-300k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain view, CA

Context engineering platform for production-grade AI

Open for applications

Context engineering platform for production-grade AI

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseDeep TechSaaS

Open for applications

$150-300k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain view, CA

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseDeep TechSaaS

Company mission

To change the way the world works through AI.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Master's or PhD preferred
Strong software engineering fundamentals and proven track record of building complex systems
Strong understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts, and practical experience in language modeling, retrieval, large-scale training, or evaluation
Research experience (academic or industry) is a strong plus, including familiarity with experimental design, analysis, and research methodology
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced research environment

What the job involves

As a Member of Technical Staff specializing in Research, you will work on cutting-edge AI research projects, contributing to advancements in Contextual RAG pipelines, including retrieval systems and language models, alignment and end-to-end training methods
Drive research projects in areas such as language modeling, retrieval, alignment, retrieval augmented generation, end-to-end training, evaluation, etc
Design and implement scalable infrastructure and tooling to enable efficient and effective research and development of models and systems
Read and stay up to date with literature, latest advancements, and best practices
Contribute to the full research pipeline from ideation to experimentation, analysis, and deployment
Publish research papers with novel contributions to state-of-the-art research

Our take

Founded by former Facebook research scientists, Contextual AI is building customizable, scalable and trustworthy Large Language Models for use by enterprises. Its main product is a tool to improve model performance so that users can build production-grade AI systems.

The backbone of this product is a technology that feeds curated information into AI models so that the LLM can have more context and up-to-date information. This helps to minimize AI “hallucinations”, an increasingly common problem for models like ChatGPT.

Contextual AI is currently working with companies in the finance, technology and media sectors. Following its 2024 funding round, the company has gained momentum, most recently announcing the launch of Agent Composer, a product aimed at moving enterprise RAG from experimentation to production ready AI agents.

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Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2024

$80m

SERIES A

Jun 2023

$20m

SEED

Total funding: $100m

Company benefits

Competitive salary & equity packages
Comprehensive health, dental & vision isnurance
401(k) with employer matching
Support for conference feeds & travel
Team offsites, celebrations & events
Unlimited PTO

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Douwe Kiela

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, Head of Research at Hugging Face and Research Scientist at Facebook. Was also the CEO and Founder of Brainstorm IT.

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