Machine Learning Engineer (Staff)

About GPTZero

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AIgenerated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a categorydefining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from highperforming engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Perplexity, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, MILA, and Vector.

What were looking for

At GPTZero, we ensure that machine learning models are created for the benefit of humanity, not the other way around.

In this role, youll build the nextgen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the worlds information. The ideal candidate is someone who has a history of ML research, possesses a great product sense, and is also an excellent software engineer. Youll be working on a fastpaced team of passionate builders to create industrydefining software that has attracted millions of users globally.

What youll contribute

• Design, train, and finetune stateoftheart language models

• Develop AI agents combined with retrievalaugmented language models

• Build efficient and scalable ML training and inference systems

• Stay uptodate with the latest literature and emerging technologies to solve novel problems

• Work closely with product and design teams to develop intuitive applications that create societal impact

• Qualifications

  • 5+ YOE in PyTorchTransformers

  • Led significant and impactful ML projects (such as several 1st author at toptier conferences or deploying new capabilities in industry)

  • Experience pushing the cuttingedge in deep learning and LLMs

  • Excellent software engineer with experience building highly extensible and modular codebases, as well as complex pipelines

  • Selfstarter (pitch, plan, and implement as a project owner in a fastpaced team)

  • Highly motivated to make positive societal impact

  • Ability to wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows

  • Visa for work in Canada or US

  • Bonus:

    • strong opensource portfolio

    • publications at toptier ML venues

    • experience working in an earlystage startup environment

    • understanding of how machine learning models fail in the wild

    • • Who youll be joining

        Our Team

        You will be working directly with

        • Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber selfdriving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML

        • George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and exAWS research.

        • Olivia (our head of design) on translating your research into outputs for millions of users.

        • Edward (our CEO, exBellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.

        • Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. exGoogle, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Ycombinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.

          Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity

          Our Angels and Advisors

          • Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO)

          • Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive)

          • Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman)

          • Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, coauthor of OpenAI’s original GPT paper)

          • Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI)

          • Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores)

          • Brad Smith (President of Microsoft)

          • Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital)

          • Ali Partovi (cofounder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb)

          • Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend)

          • Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI)

          • Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation)

          • Our Perks

            • 🏥 Health, dental, and mental health benefits

            • 💻 Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices

            • 🚀 Competitive salary

            • 🍰 Equity (seed round was in March 2023, today, our metrics exceed many series A companies)

            • 🏝 Flexible PTO

            • 🎉 Regular company retreats

            • 💡Mentorship opportunities with our worldclass advisors and investors

            • 🙌 Wellness and learning stipend

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