Lead NLP Research Scientist, Genies

$180-306k

AWS
GCP
Tensorflow
SpaCy
PyTorch
Sagemaker
Mid, Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Genies

Creating avatars

Open for applications

Genies

Creating avatars

201-500 employees

B2CSaaSSocial Media

Open for applications

$180-306k

AWS
GCP
Tensorflow
SpaCy
PyTorch
Sagemaker
Mid, Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

201-500 employees

B2CSaaSSocial Media

Company mission

To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.

Role

Who you are

  • Established expertise and genuine passion for natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, deep learning, and large language models
  • Minimum of 3 years in model training, deployment, and procedures for efficiently acquiring and validating human-labeled data
  • Experience training, fine-tuning and deploying large language models (LLM)
  • Proven track record of implementing NLP techniques to develop conversational agents, chatbots, or virtual assistants
  • Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX
  • Familiarity with NLP toolkits such as spaCy and Hugging Face Transformers
  • Solid communication skills complemented by a history of fruitful collaborations
  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
  • Self-motivated and adept at operating independently

Desirable

  • An advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related discipline
  • Prior roles as a tech lead or manager
  • Experience crafting machine learning models in cloud environments like AWS or GCP, with specific knowledge of Sagemaker being a plus
  • Published contributions in renowned machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, MLSys, etc.) or journals
  • Experience with game theory, AI creator bots, and emotionally intelligent avatars

What the job involves

  • Genies is hiring a Lead NLP Research Scientist to drive the development of our NLP technologies and products
  • Seated in our San Mateo based headquarter and reporting to the VP of Engineering, this Lead NLP Engineer will play a pivotal role in utilizing advanced NLP and ML tools to create emotionally intelligent avatars that connect with users, and create a highly user centric content experience
  • Your responsibilities include recognizing and responding to emotional cues, giving each avatar a distinct voice and persona, and tailoring data capture to the overall content experience
  • You'll also be at the forefront of shaping the future of AI-driven content and gameplay, ensuring immersive and unique experiences
  • You'll work hand in hand with our broader Avatar Tech and R&D team to integrate multimodal techniques, allowing avatars to understand and respond to text, motions, speech, gestures, and facial expressions
  • Our mission is to revolutionize digital avatars and their ability to be interoperable across digital experiences; making them empathetic and authentic in user interactions, ushering in a new era of social engagement
  • Identifying innovative NLP solutions for our product suite and defining the roadmap for their implementation
  • Lead the training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large language models
  • Oversee the AI lifecycle from data acquisition to model deployment and real-time monitoring, guaranteeing efficiency at each phase
  • Collaborate with cross-functional units, fostering knowledge exchange and enhancing business impact through machine learning

Our take

Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.

While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customization options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.

The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalize on this opportunity moving forward.

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Insights

Top investors

5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Apr 2022

$150m

SERIES C

May 2021

$65m

SERIES B

Total funding: $255.3m

Company benefits

  • You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
  • You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
  • You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
  • Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
  • Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
  • Choice of MacBook or windows laptop

Company HQ

Los Angeles, CA

Leadership

CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.

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