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Merlyn Mind is a "Remote First" VC-backed AI EdTech startup that brings the latest advances in AI to Education to help improve the lives of teachers and ultimately the learning outcomes of their students. Our leadership team includes talents from IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Roku, Broadcom, HP, Allen Institute for AI, and more. We have come together to build on a unified product experience for an extremely urgent mission – building a digital assistant for teachers, to untether teachers from the desk and help them with managing classroom technologies.
We're looking full time AI researchers in the area of multi-agent systems, who will work with us either remotely or on-site at our NYC headquarters. Researchers will collaborate closely with our larger team on designing, developing and deploying real-world AI systems, from creating new models, algorithms and systems, to optimized deployment on multi-GPU systems at scale
The ideal candidate would have a Ph.D. in AI/ML/CS or related technical field, with a strong background in multi-agent systems and decision-making using foundation models. Strong interest in applying bleeding edge AI to real-world problems, and with research or industry experience

What you’ll do:

• Multi-agent and tool-using systems
• Sequential decision-making using language models including multi-step
• Reasoning and planning, and related training methods
• Continuous learning and self-learning
• Neuro-symbolic reasoning
• Contextual bandits, reinforcement learning and reward modeling
• Experience with classical planning techniques and AI agent frameworks is a plus
• Experience with large foundation models, including hands-on familiarity with different training modalities (CPT/DPT, SFT, instruction-tuning, alignment, ...) is a plus

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field (PhD students preferred)
• 5+ years of research or industry experience in one of the areas listed above
• Publications at strong AI/NLP conferences (Neurips, ICLR, ICML, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ...)
• Expertise in deep-learning frameworks including one or more of PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax

Merlyn Mind is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. We make hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Benefits:Every last Friday of the month Paid Time off for everyone.401(k) matchingDental insuranceFlexible scheduleFlexible spending accountHealth insuranceHealth savings accountLife insuranceUnlimited Paid time offParental leaveVision insurance

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