Founding Research Engineer
New Yesterday
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Base pay range $250,000.00/yr - $500,000.00/yr
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Full-time | Onsite | Reports to Founders
Introduction:
Join us at Fastino as we build the next generation of LLMs and agentic systems. Our team, boasting alumni from Google Deepmind, Stanford, Apple, and CMU is on a mission to develop specialized, efficient AI.
Fastino has raised almost $25M (as featured in TechCrunch) through our seed round and is backed by leading investors including Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, Github CEO Thomas Dohmke, Docker CEO Scott Johnston, and others.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct and lead research on the development of large language models and agentic systems scalable to millions of users and billions of tasks
Research and design LLM-based autonomous, scalable agents and agentic components: memory, context engineering, tool usage, multi-agent coordination
Build data generation and testing pipelines to ensure LLM reliability and accuracy.
Experiment with LLM prompting, finetuning, and orchestration to improve agent performance
Agent architecture development and scaffolding including data collection workflows and management, performance evaluation and benchmarking
Drive thought leadership in LLM and AI agent research through publications and industry engagement
Requirements:
Practical experience working with LLMs, with proficiency in frameworks like Pytorch, Jax, or Tensorflow
Adept at interpreting research literature and quickly turning new ideas into prototypes
Professional Experience:
3+ years of experience addressing sophisticated ML problems, either in a research setting or product development
PhD / MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a related field, with a strong focus on natural language processing or machine learning.
Why Join Us?
Supportive Environment: Benefit from the resources of Microsoft and venture funding, collaborating with top-tier talent from renowned universities.
Top-Tier Compute: Enjoy a dedicated GPU cluster for research.
Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly shape the future of AI applications, making technology more accessible, eco-friendly and dev friendly!
Competitive Benefits: Receive competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and more.
Seniority level Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Research and Engineering
Industries Software Development
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Salary:
- $200,000 - $250,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering