Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Founding Member of Technical Staff with a background in ML engineering or research. The vast majority of your work will be open source. You’ll have an opportunity to continue to master your current skills with the flexibility to learn new ones from scratch.
You can learn more about our technical roadmap and vision here. As a preview, if you joined today, you'd likely work on advanced inference strategies (e.g. MCTS) or new optimization recipes (e.g. different sorts of RL and APE).

Requirements:

• Competitive compensation — We believe that great talent deserves great compensation (salary, equity, benefits), even at an early-stage startup.
• Open-source contributions — The vast majority of your work will be open source and public.
• Learning and growth opportunities — You’ll join with a background in ML but will have the opportunity (& be encouraged) to expand your skill set way beyond that (curious about Rust?).
• Small, technical, in-person team — You’ll work alongside a 100% technical team and help shape our vision, culture, and engineering practices.
• Best-in-class investors — We’re lucky to be backed by leading funds like FirstMark (backed ClickHouse), Bessemer (backed Anthropic), Bedrock (backed OpenAI), and many angels. We have years of runway and a long-term mindset.

We're Looking for:

• Strong technical background — You’ve tackled hard technical problems. You’re comfortable driving large projects from inception to deployment.
• **Background in LLMs or RL **— You’ll complement the team with a strong background and technical leadership. In particular, we're interested in people who have experience at the frontier of either LLMs or reinforcement learning.
• Hungry for personal growth — There are no speed limits at TensorZero. You’re excited about learning and contributing across the stack.
• In-person in NYC — We work in-person five days a week in NYC. We work hard and obsess about the craft – but maintain and encourage a healthy lifestyle with a long-term mindset.