Director of Machine Learning, Together AI
$260-330k
+ Equity
Cloud platform for building generative AI
Be an early applicant
Cloud platform for building generative AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$260-330k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
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.
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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
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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