Senior AI/Machine Learning Engineer

What we’re building

You generate enormous amounts of personal data when you use the internet. Every song you’ve ever listened to, every comment you’ve ever made on social media, and every purchase you’ve made – these and millions of other such “digital fingerprints” are actually stored somewhere online. Such data is extremely powerful and could make your life easier, better, and more magical. So why aren’t you using this data? 

Because there is no product today that effortlessly consolidates your data, and uses it to help you (without you being the product!).

Not yet, anyway – meet Genie, the definitive personal assistant whom we’re building here at Gather. Genie will help you gather all of your data with a single click. With this deep context about your life, Genie will be able to proactively make your life easier – whether by acting as a memory aid, helping you stay on track with your goals, or anticipating your future needs. Genie will also happily help you do things, such as managing your calendar, communicating with your family and friends, and searching for flights and interesting events.

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking an entrepreneurial AI engineer to lead Gather’s efforts to develop Genie, the next-generation personal AI assistant.

LLMs have certainly made it far easier to understand natural language, but they represent just the tip of the iceberg. LLMs are simply one of many tools in our AI engineering toolbox, and there is so much nuance (and so much more to learn, everyday!) when it comes to the art and science of designing and building intelligent AI systems. In our case, there is also a rich data science aspect: how do we create and compute relevant signals from our messy and noisy personal data, and enrich/transform it such that Genie is able to work with it?

Who would be successful in this role

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the above challenges on a daily basis. We believe that to do so effectively, you’ll need to have a good sense of the rapidly changing field of generative AI – having tinkered with LLMs – and a strong foundation in AI and machine learning. You’ll also have a solid intuition for data, having personally wrangled many different kinds of data in the past. You should feel at ease keeping up to date with the latest research, and be able to creatively and iteratively apply relevant ideas to our designs, with the goal of shipping production code. And you won’t be doing this alone – you will collaborate with a diverse team of data scientists, software engineers, and designers.

With that in mind, here is a short list of specific requirements:

● Bachelor’s degree or several years of experience in computer science or another quantitative field; a master’s degree is recommended

● Solid working knowledge of Python. Experience with SQL is a plus.

● Good understanding of statistics, as well as machine learning frameworks, techniques, systems and design paradigms.

● A love of problem solving, and of working with models and data of all kinds. (Our team is called “Models And Data”, or “MAD” for short…)

● End-to-end experience designing, developing, deploying and measuring an AI system will be a strong plus.

● Experience with natural language processing (including but not limited to LLMs) will also be a strong plus.

● Excellent communication skills

Why you should join us

You’ll be joining a small and creative team of AI/ML engineers. We’re all builders and tinkerers at heart – we share lots of laughter as we hustle together, whether it is shipping the next big feature, playing with some crazy experiments or debugging some code. We’re pretty loud as a team (just ask the other folks at Gather), though we do maintain regular quiet hours so that we can hear ourselves think. We also extensively use the ~80 sq ft of whiteboard space in our room, since we are in-person five days a week.

Join us at Gather, to make millions of lives better with personal data and AI.