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Besides building, you will identify key areas for engineering investment, build the technical foundation as we scale, and lead by example to build a healthy and strong engineering culture.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nCollaborate with Research and Design to create new ways to use AI\n\nRapidly prototype product ideas and productionize novel AI research\n\nSet the talent and culture standards for Worktrace AI’s engineering team\n\nYou’ll excel in this role if you\n\nLove rapidly building user-facing products\n\nHave experience with machine learning and/or data pipelines\n\nHave uncompromising standards of excellence\n\nFind joy in delivering AI magic moments to users\n\nBenefits and perks\n\nTop-of-market salary and equity\n\nVisa sponsorship\n\nGenerous health and dental insurance for you and dependents\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\n401K\n\nThe Team\nOur founders are Angela Jiang (CMU PhD), an early product manager at OpenAI and led the launches of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and Deepak Vasisht (MIT PhD), a CS Professor at UIUC who has deployed cutting edge AI into industries spanning agriculture to space. 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