Research Scientist Intern, Genies
Natural Language Processing / Large Language Models
$58 per hour
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Creating avatars
Open for applications
Creating avatars
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$58 per hour
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who is passionate about creating high-quality visuals and has the technical foundation to help us build the next wave of data analysis and game playing experience
- Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a PhD degree program in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field
- Minimum 12 weeks internship. 40 hours per week is strongly preferred with hybrid onsite arrangement
- Solid understanding of machine learning concepts and recent natural language processing techniques
- Familiarity with programming languages such as Python and experience with machine learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
- Ability to conduct research and prototype solutions based on academic literature
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly and effectively
Desirable
- Demonstrated experience in developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines through publications on venus including: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI and etc
- Deep understanding of and experience with the latest natural language processing techniques
- Demonstrated solid software development skills through ML/NLP projects
- Hands-on experience working with LLMs and familiarity with popular prompt methods such as chain-of-thought, and graph-of-thought
- Experience with SQL/Code generation for data analysis
What the job involves
- Genies is looking for an Research Scientist Intern to join us at our Bay Area office in San Mateo CA, you will work closely with a dedicated and talented team of Engineers and Researchers. In this role, you'll be diving into the innovative intersection of LLM, data and gaming
- Your role will be instrumental in developing a cutting-edge system, underpinned by advanced LLM, to unlock new dimensions of designer and player interaction
- Our internship program has a minimum duration of 12 weeks, with flexible start dates available throughout the year
- Contribute to real-world products by researching and developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines aimed at transforming decision making through comprehensive analysis and strategic insights
- Design evaluations and perform both controlled experiments and observational analyses to assess system effectiveness
- Absorb machine learning literature, particularly in natural language processing, and quickly prototype new techniques by engaging with relevant research papers and textbooks
- Explore the feasibility of productization, identifying issues and gaps that may lead to direct production implementations or inspire new research directions for publication
Our take
Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.
While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customization options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.
The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalize on this opportunity moving forward.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $255.3m
Company benefits
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Akash Nigam
(CEO)CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.
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