Proofs is a well-funded, pre-seed stage startup leveraging AI agents for code generation to boost sales engineering teams’ productivity by enabling them to build great software more efficiently and at a faster pace.
Overview
As an AI Research Engineer, you will be a core member of our Engineering Team, playing a critical role in shaping and building our product alongside a small team of extremely talented and experienced colleagues.
What we’re building
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Skills and Experience
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4+ months of experience in building LLM-driven RAG systems, preferably in the code generation space either commercially or as side projects. Open-source contributions or papers in the field are a major plus.
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10+ years of experience in software engineering and research.
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5+ years of experience in Python.
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3+ years of experience in any Data Science + Machine Learning stack.
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Very strong reasoning and problem-solving skills.
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Demonstrated ability and eagerness to quickly get up to speed with unfamiliar environments, frameworks, concepts, and programming languages.
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Experience in independently architecting and implementing complex systems.
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Proven capacity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
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Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly explain complex concepts.
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Strong programming skills, experience with best practices, and proven intuition in picking the right approach, tool, framework, and mental model for the job, time, and context.
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Contributions to open-source projects or research communities are a plus.
Responsibilities
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Work at the forefront of AI-driven code generation and software development more broadly.
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Contribute to and evaluate new ideas coming from the team or research community in the context of our platform.
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Improve the evaluation toolchain to accommodate new research themes.
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Communicate research findings and conclusions to the rest of the team, proposing new solutions.
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Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance, scalability, and robustness of code generation workflows, and continuously iterate to improve their accuracy, efficiency, and developer experience.
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Closely collaborate with product and engineering teams to fully understand the business context, needs, and impact of your work, as well as provide insights.
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Research, develop, and maintain internal tooling necessary to continuously improve the way you work.
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Actively participate in the AI research community, staying up to date with the latest AI technologies and their applicability to our products.
Personality
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🔍 Detail-oriented (you know what matters) and goal-focused (and you know what doesn’t).
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🔩 Researcher/Tinkerer nature: Driven by curiosity and complex challenges, you delve deep into understanding and improving systems.
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🧠 Independent thinker: You often do not agree with the most popular opinion, and you have your arguments to back it up.
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🔦 Attention: Other than the above, it is all we need.
Benefits
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Awesome Team: Work with a team of amazingly talented and experienced people.
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ESOPs: Own part of our dream! Get an ESOP of 0.25% or more.
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Vacay Mode On: 25 days of PTO to recharge your superpowers.
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Remote: We're 100% remote.
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Offsites: Who said all work and no play? Join our adventurous offsites.
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Hardware: We’ll get you what you need.
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Subscriptions: All necessary AI tools and subscriptions for use and/or research.
