Senior Frontend Engineer, Hugging Face
Community-driven platform for ML models
Open for applications
Community-driven platform for ML models
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- You are passionate about open source and want to make machine learning as accessible as possible
- You have used TypeScript and a JS framework professionally (React or Svelte ideally)
- You are comfortable working directly with core web APIs (canvas, audio, etc.)
- Ideally, you will have a few years of experience, always keeps users front and centre, and love collaborating
- But as much as technical aptitude is important, we are looking for someone kind, thoughtful and engaged
- If you're interested in joining us but don't tick every box above, we'd still encourage you to apply!
- We're building a diverse team whose skills, experiences, and backgrounds complement one another
What the job involves
- As a frontend engineer, you will work with core web technologies and python to build complex UI components to empower users to develop powerful applications with minimal code
- You will respond quickly to the constantly changing needs of our user base to enable new and more exciting use cases
- You'll help maintain a popular open-source library and nurture an engaged and passionate open-source community, helping users to contribute to and use the tools you build
- You'll collaborate with researchers, ML practitioners, data scientists and software engineers daily through GitHub, Discord and Slack
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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