Member of Technical Staff, Slingshot AI

Salary not provided

React

Java

Tensorflow

Kotlin

Swift

PyTorch

Senior level

London

New York

3-5 days a week in office

Foundational model for psychology

Open for applications

Foundational model for psychology

1-20 employees

HealthcarePersonal healthArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMental healthMachine LearningWellbeing

Open for applications

Salary not provided

React

Java

Tensorflow

Kotlin

Swift

PyTorch

Senior level

London

New York

3-5 days a week in office

1-20 employees

HealthcarePersonal healthArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMental healthMachine LearningWellbeing

Company mission

To use AI to make Mental Health Care more accessible.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We expect our MTS to be highly autonomous and intelligent individuals who may not fit our exact mould
5+ years developing deep learning models in PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX, include 3+ years in a production environment
Experience fine-tuning language models, like Llama
Experience with software engineering on a product, e.g. React, Swift, Kotlin, Java, etc., including a strong understanding of modern software architectures
You're fast-paced and pragmatic. You'd rather prove out an idea through quick MVP code than present a slide deck to explain it
You can explain complex ideas to non-technical people
You understand why deep learning is magic

What the job involves

As Member of Technical Staff, you’ll work with our founding team across ML research and product development
You may work on data collection, curation, continued pre-training, ablation studies, evals, creation of hand-crafted supervised fine-tuning data, preference optimization, and state-of-the-art reinforcement learning research
You'll also contribute to our end-user product, improving user experience through your work on our models and model orchestration
You’ll be able to work at a faster pace than almost anywhere else while writing high-quality code and producing meaningful scientific insights
You’ll be primarily working with 70B parameter models as well as fine-tuning GPT-4o, through our partnership with OpenAI
You will be responsible for reading papers and identifying state-of-the-art techniques for us to learn from
Our application backend is written in Kotlin and our ML stack (PyTorch) utilizes modern tooling in the ML space, including some that we’ve developed in-house
We write high-quality, typed, Zen code

Our take

Use-cases of machine learning in the previous three decades have gone from the impressive but impractical achievements of beating Chess Grand Masters to being integral to some of the world’s most used commercial applications like Google Search.

Slingshot is taking Large Language Models in a new direction, using its machine-learning tools to train generative AI in deep psychology. The aim is to build machine learning models that can perform modern therapy through Ash, set to be the first AI counselor, driving down the cost of mental healthcare.

Slingshot is attempting to democratize access to mental health care through the increasingly complex capabilities of ML. What started for Slingshot as a general exploration of machine learning has developed into a potentially significant and singular product. Whilst the proof will be in the pudding, Ash still being in development, Slingshot has won investor confidence evidenced by its $6 million seed fundign round in 2022.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2025

$40m

SERIES A

Aug 2024

$30m

SEED

Total funding: $76.2m

Company benefits

Hybrid environment, highly collaborative, fast-paced culture
Unparalleled growth opportunity - learn faster than you would anywhere else
Have a massive impact on the next generation of ML engineering
Work with a passionate team that cares about creating an AI world that's not winner-takes-all
Learning and development budget
Company offsites and events
Lunch on us when you are in the office

Company values

Bias towards Action
Authenticity - we keep it real and we say it like it is
Strong opinions, loosely held
We're nowhere near the end of history

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

Daniel Reid Cahn

(CEO)

Graduated with a Master's at Imperial with distinction and an award for novel work in Deep Reinforcement Learning. Prior to Slingshot, they were a Machine Learning Engineer at Instabase filing two patents that redirected the strategy of the company at large.

Neil Parikh

(Co-founder)

Neil is co-founder of Casper, the global sleep company which he helped grow to over $500million in revenue and IPO'd in 2020.

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