Founding AI Engineer

Autoplay builds AI agents that help users navigate any software to achieve their goals in real-time. We are a deep tech company that prioritizes user experience. Our mission is to build a product that seamlessly integrates into users’ lives, making using software feel like magic.

At Autoplay, we believe that the greatest innovations are achieved when software is used to its fullest potential. However, the current interaction between humans and software is riddled with friction, leading to frustration and a lack of confidence. Our goal is to move software use into a 'happy place' where users are excited to engage and optimize it, allowing them to explore and push their creativity to new heights.

At Autoplay, you will work directly with the founders to build and iterate the first version of our product, focusing on achieving product-market fit through constant iteration. You will be involved in answering key questions such as "What should we build next?" and "What is the minimum viable product we should be developing to quickly excite and provide value to our customers?

Join an ambitious team pushing the frontiers of AI tech with the aim of reimagining the way humans interact with software. We are backed by one of the world’s leading AI accelerators.

• Work alongside the CEO to determine the minimum viable product (MVP) for our beta users that will add value to our customers quickly, while creating a wow effect for our first batch of users
• Work with the founding team to design our Product Roadmap and determine which features to prioritize
• Pioneer our products System Design for Flexibility while constantly assessing how to keep our architecture agile and be able to adopt new frontier technologies
• Establish a reliable DevOps pipeline and comprehensive testing environment to ensure product quality and efficient deployment
• Constantly be researching and testing new open source code we can use to streamline product building
• Constantly take the initiative to test new machine learning research and translate it into code.
• Help hire other engineers and scale the engineering team

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related fields
• 4+ years experience building and iterating products from 0 to 1
• Experience designing and setting up strong and robust data pipelines
• ⁠Experience designing AI systems

Non-negotiables:)

• You are weird and have a good sense of humor.

Skills:

• Builder's mindset: you are someone who is excited by building and seeing an idea through to production
• Solution-oriented: You'll thrive in navigating uncharted territory, tackling challenges head-on, and solving complex problems as we build next-generation ML / AI technologies
• Self-starter: You have a natural talent for resourcefulness and ingenuity
• You thrive in early-stage startups: You are scrappy, and can work well in a fast-paced environment, and can adapt quickly to changing circumstances and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience building with tools like lightning AI, Amazon redbock, vector databases, Langchain, Llama index, multimodals, Rag Pipelines and framework, multi-agentic frameworks,model evaluation, prompt engineering
• Ability to translate machine learning research papers into actionable code and ensure that our product leverages the frontier of AI research
• Ability to eventually build, manage, and scale an engineering team that is strongly integrated with product, sales, and marketing

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with inverse dynamic models and / or inverse reinforcement learning
• Experience in gamification and / or you have a passion for playing video games
• 3+ years experience in deep learning and reinforcement learning (+ human feedback) research
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Recruitment Process

1. Two-stage interview with Co-Founders – Software engineers directly involved in building the product.
2. Technical Design Task.
3. Final Decision Call.

Benefits

• Full benefits package, including premium healthcare coverage
• Flexible working location and hours
• Minimum of 25 days vacation
• Funded travel and accommodation to the USA
• Ability to grow into any role: As a small team of three, you'll have the opportunity to take on various responsibilities as we scale and grow quickly
• Stock options