Workshop Labs · 3 months ago
Machine Learning Research Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelWorkshop Labs is an innovative company focused on building a personal AI that respects user privacy and preferences. The Machine Learning Research Engineer will be responsible for training models to understand individual user behavior, creating synthetic data pipelines, and ensuring the qualitative evaluation of models while maintaining privacy and safety standards.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Train models to think, act, and value like a specific user. Implement & test parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques to make models pick up people’s reasoning & judgement & style
Put small data to use. Create synthetic data pipelines to let models squeeze everything out of small datasets. Invent new data collection pipelines (working with the product team), test their effects on model quality, and make recommendations on what sort of data matters most to collect
Think carefully about how to evaluate quality. We're not trying to push up numbers on a public benchmark, we’re trying to make models qualitatively good at understanding a particular user’s taste & judgement. And we’re not just finetuning one model, but building a system that can finetune a quality private model for anyone
Reduce misuse and catastrophic risk while maintaining bulletproof privacy. Develop guardrails to prevent models from gaining capabilities that are illegal or pose society-wide dangers
Qualification
Required
A deep understanding of transformers and parameter-efficient finetuning
Ability to execute quickly
A missionary mentality
Ready to roll up your sleeves
Preferred
Experience running finetuning or post-training experiments with LLMs
Work at a fast-paced AI startup, or top AI lab
Published machine learning research outputs, as peer-reviewed papers or in-depth technical blog posts
Academic experience in machine learning research. This might be through a PhD, a research-oriented master's, or research programs like MATS or Anthropic Fellows Program
Benefits
Generous compensation and early stage equity.
World-class expertise.
Massive impact.
Company
Workshop Labs
We're building the technology to train billions of models, one for each person. Each model works like you, with you, for you.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase