Transluce

ML Research Engineer

Transluce  •  $250k - $500k/yr  •  San Francisco, CA (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

Salary range: $250,000 - $500,000/year + benefits
Transluce is a fast-moving research lab building the public tech stack for understanding and debugging AI systems. We build world-class, AI-backed analysis tools and use these to set industry standards for evaluation. We are a non-profit with a mission to steer the development of AI for the public good.
About the role: We are looking for strong ML engineers to accelerate progress on our core LLM-based AI technology, spanning RL, interpretability, and AI agents. As an early member of a highly collaborative team, you will learn and grow quickly, creating technology at the frontier of AI research and with high direct impact.
Core responsibility: Drive results on one of our core research threads; proactively identify and execute on tactical paths forward within a broader team strategy. This includes:
  • Prototyping to reach signs of life on an initial idea
  • Navigating the design space of system architecture and other hyperparameters
  • Designing and implementing efficient and reliable systems (training and inference pipelines)
  • For more senior candidates: direction setting on code code architecture, planning and leading projects

Qualities of a strong candidate:
  • Reliable and trustworthy results: meticulous, good experimental design, epistemic self-awareness and transparency
  • Prioritization: be scrappy while balancing appropriately with meticulousness
    • Keep low-level planning connected to high-level goals
  • Generative: come up with original, productive ideas for unblocking progress
  • Deep domain knowledge in some area of ML research, such as interpretability, RL, basic systems performance / GPUs
  • Strong programming ability, including navigating trade-offs between prototyping speed and maintainability
  • Strong communication skills, low ego, openness to giving and receiving feedback
  • High self-bar for final results
  • Ability to learn quickly from teammates and mentors

We are located in San Francisco and enthusiastic to work together in-person. We are open to sponsoring international visas.
Transluce

About Transluce

Transluce is an independent research lab that builds open, scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering them in the public interest. Transluce means to shine light through something to reveal its structure. Today’s complex AI systems are difficult to understand—not even experts can reliably predict their behavior once deployed. Given AI's extraordinary consequences on society, we need scalable and open analyses of the capabilities and risks of AI systems.

We are building open source, AI-driven tools to understand and analyze AI systems. We will apply these tools to open-weight models, so the world can vet our analyses and improve their reliability. Once our technology has been vetted, we will work with frontier AI labs and governments to ensure that internal assessments reach the same standards as our publicly vetted procedures.

Email: info@transluce.org

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
2024
Website
transluce.org
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