Director of Machine Learning, Together AI

$260-330k

+ Equity

Kubernetes

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud platform for building generative AI

Open for applications

Cloud platform for building generative AI

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Open for applications

$260-330k

+ Equity

Kubernetes

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

The ideal candidate will be able to hit the ground running in setting technical direction and making technical contributions while also scaling the team to a layered organization
Understanding of state of the art in LLM architecture, use cases, and ecosystem
5+ years of experience in building and operating scaled ML infrastructure
Ability to scale from hands-on contribution to leading a multi-level organization
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred: Prior experience with Kubernetes, open source inference engines (VLLM, SGLang, etc)

What the job involves

We are building the world’s best cloud for generative AI. We are looking for an experienced engineering leader for our ML engineering and operations teams. These teams are responsible for working with our researchers to turn their latest innovations into customer-facing services and operate them in production.
Collaborate with Research, Product, and GTM teams to turn ideas into customer-facing services
Mentor engineers and build a high-performing organization
Collaborate with SRE and Infrastructure teams to ensure smooth operation of ML API services

Our take

Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.

Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.

The company has has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to develop its products to cater for larger organisations, as well as expanding its compute capacity across the world.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2024

$106m

SERIES A

Nov 2023

$102.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $228.5m

Company benefits

Competitive health insurance plans
Dental and vision insurance
Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
Mental health support and services
Income protection & retirement
401(k) plan
AD&D insurance
Life insurance
STD & LTD insurance
Monthly team lunches
Flexible time off policy
Team-driven celebrations and events
Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene

Company values

Empower Innovation - Everything works best when we help the open-source community work better together
Discover the magic - Our wonder, curiosity, and hope drive us to find ways to make everyone’s lives better
Do more with less - We are optimizers, making the most with what we have and not taking more than what we need
Open to any prompt - We don’t know what’s possible until we try
Model stewardship - We build everything with the purpose of benefiting society

Company HQ

The Castro, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

Announcing $106M round led by Salesforce Ventures

Leadership

Ce Zhang

(CTO)

Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Vipul Ved Prakash

(CEO)

Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.

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