AI Lead Engineer

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Zürich, Switzerland
Full time
Office
Compensation is not specified
Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Description

DFINITY seeks a skilled Senior AI Engineer to pioneer the AI initiative within the organization. Apart from possessing robust engineering capabilities, the ideal candidate must exhibit superior communication and leadership skills to propel the AI project at DFINITY. This role requires a strong penchant for tackling intricate, undefined problems that straddle the realms of research and product development. The successful candidate will have the foresight to shape a novel product category and eagerly embrace a potentially high-impact mission, even if it involves failure.

This position aims to leverage the security assurances offered by smart contracts to address a key issue in AI – ensuring trust in the underlying models. By conducting training and inference on-chain, users can verify the credibility of an AI model they interact with. Are you interested in contributing to this ambitious undertaking and partaking in solving this foundational challenge?

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Develop the mid- to long-term AI roadmap for the Internet Computer.
  • Identify AI use cases that align with smart contracts and offer an added level of trust.
  • Enhance and optimize AI libraries accessible to smart contracts for training and/or inference purposes.
  • Advance the integration of AI hardware acceleration into smart contracts in the future.
  • Engage with conferences and events on behalf of DFINITY.
  • Collaborate with and support the decentralized AI community of The Internet Computer.

Requirements:

  • Engineering: Proficient coding skills at a Senior Software Engineer level, a proclivity for solving complex technical issues, meticulousness, and a data-driven decision-making approach.
  • AI Experience: Demonstrated expertise in designing, training, and deploying tailor-made AI models or machine learning solutions adopted in real-world scenarios. Ideally, experience in AI model transformation and deterministic AI.
  • Product Orientation: Proven track record of eliciting customer requirements and shaping products to meet these needs.
  • Communication: Adaptable communicator capable of engaging with various stakeholders (researchers, engineers, community members). This individual should simplify intricate subjects for widespread dissemination.
  • Leadership: Experience in leading projects or managing small teams with the ability to unite individuals towards achieving ambitious goals. A drive for success and impact alongside an entrepreneurial spirit.

Kindly note that this role necessitates in-office presence at our Zurich office for three days weekly.

About DFINITY and the Internet Computer:

The Internet Computer stands out as the sole infinitely scalable general-purpose blockchain, conceived and launched by the DFINITY Foundation in May 2021. Backed by a team of 200 globally renowned cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, and programming language specialists, the Internet Computer is a revolutionary 'world computer' equipped to host an array of Web3 dApps, DeFi, games, NFTs, social platforms, and metaverse projects.

Established in 2016 by entrepreneur and crypto expert Dominic Williams, DFINITY garnered attention and financial support from early Ethereum community affiliates. Notable institutions like Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, and SV Angel later endorsed the Internet Computer to collectively aid in the advancement of Web3 technologies.

All qualified applicants will receive fair considerations for employment, employing equal opportunities principles regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, nationality, genetic makeup, disability, age, or military service status.

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