Founding ML Research Engineer
About the Role
As the Founding ML Research Engineer on a consumer AI assistant team, you will lead hands-on research and engineering to improve how the assistant responds, uses tools, and acts safely. Your work will shape product quality while balancing reliability, latency, and model costs.
What You'll Do
Build evaluation systems that turn real conversations and user preferences into trustworthy measures for product decisions.
Post-train models using supervised fine-tuning, preference tuning, and distillation, then ship the improvements to production.
Develop and evaluate model routing that uses smaller models for routine requests and more capable models when needed.
Manage the tradeoffs among response quality, latency, and cost across the product.
Improve agent reliability on websites without APIs, including navigation, sign-in, and checkout flows.
Test for adversarial inputs, data exposure, and unintended actions, then build safeguards and evaluations.
Apply ML to memory, retrieval, tool selection, and decisions about when to act or ask the user.
Review real conversations, identify opportunit
