Infrastructure Software Engineer, Imbue
$170-350k
Plus $10,000–$2,000,000 in equity
Training AI in reasoning
Open for applications
Training AI in reasoning
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$170-350k
Plus $10,000–$2,000,000 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
- A good software engineer. We are strong adherents of "infrastructure as code", so you will be writing (and reading) lots of Python, bash, etc
- Passionate about enabling other engineers and creating good tooling for developers to interact with infrastructure in an automated way
- Experienced enough with dev ops to be properly opinionated. You should understand the trade-offs of various approaches and technologies, and not be dogmatically tied to a single tool
- Careful and detail oriented. We do science and care deeply about the correctness of the results. Our infrastructure reflects this--we highly value robustness and ensuring that systems run reliably and correctly
What the job involves
- At Imbue, we leverage large amounts of compute to make our small research team more effective
- This role is about enabling and supporting those large-scale compute efforts and all of the other software infrastructure that goes into making research a pleasant, seamless experience for the rest of the team, especially as we scale to increasingly higher scale systems
- Build and manage wrapper tools that allow code written for single hosts to scale seamlessly to large GPU clusters
- Debug distributed exceptions and improve our logging and tracing stack
- Design improvements to systems that manage secrets, configurations, ongoing jobs, and other stateful components of our software
- Search out and prototype possible additions to our software stack that can integrate and provide extra leverage to pain points in typical workflows
- Dig deeply into open-source or third-party code, including C/C++ libraries, to add debugging information or patch in performance improvements
- Work collaboratively with other members of the team to debug, provide guidance, and design software that is resilient to hardware and networking failures as well as third party tooling issues
- In summary: make good abstractions so that other engineers on the team can work at a higher level and everything else works seamlessly
Application process
- All submissions are reviewed by a person, so we encourage you to include notes on why you're interested in working with us
- If you have any other work that you can showcase (open source code, side projects, etc.), certainly include it!
- 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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