depthfirst

Research Engineer

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 310 days ago

PythonDatabricksMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchNLPLLMsAgentic AIResearch

About the role

We are looking for strong engineers with strong intuition, experience in model evaluation, and benchmarks.
You're excited about this role because you will…
Work on a Product that Solves a Critical Problem - and we already have a handful of customers who have found it valuable in fixing some eye-opening vulnerabilities within the first few days of using our product.

Build State-of-the-Art AI Agentic pipelines optimized for discovering intricate software vulnerabilities and generate exploits
Design, Maintain and Evolve evaluation benchmarks for AI agents that reflects the problems our users face
Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way

Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
3+ years of full-time experience in AI research engineering in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing
Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact
A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
Capable of solving complex problems with simple solutions. Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way
A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found it
What We Offer
Competitive salary with meaningful equity
Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Office lunch and dinner (when working from our San Francisco office)
depthfirst is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Design & Develop training procedures and reinforcement learning environments to train security coding agents

depthfirst does not accept agency resumes.
Please do not forward resumes to depthfirst employees. depthfirst is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
We are building a technology capable of finding the next Log4J at scale, finding and remediating vulnerabilities in customer and open source codebases.

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