Infrastructure Software Engineer, Imbue

$170-350k

Plus $10,000–$2,000,000 in equity

Python

Bash

C++

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Training AI in reasoning

Open for applications

Training AI in reasoning

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

$170-350k

Plus $10,000–$2,000,000 in equity

Python

Bash

C++

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To empower humans in an age of AI by creating powerful computing tools for people.

Job

Company

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.

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Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Kanjun Qiu

(Co-Founder & 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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