# Member of Technical Staff, Research at The Token Company

- Company: The Token Company
- What the company does: Cut OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini API costs with accuracy held flat — or take a smaller cut and lift accuracy by several points instead. The bear-2 prompt compression API strips low-signal tokens from your inputs before they hit the LLM. Works with GPT,... Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://thetokencompany.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/the-token-company/186695fa-a558-4373-88d6-e9c9e1b39c07
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/the-token-company-member-of-technical-staff-research/

## About the role

As a Member of Technical Staff on the research team, you own the model training stack end to end: data, architecture, training, evaluation, and shipping compression models into production. This is a from-scratch model training role. You will spend your time designing and training models on NVIDIA B200s, not wiring up RAG pipelines or prompting other people's APIs.

## What they're looking for

- You have trained models from scratch. You have owned data, architecture and a training loop yourself, ideally in a research lab, a startup or a scale-up. Not only fine-tuning or calling an API
- You are strong in ML fundamentals. You are fluent with transformers and comfortable turning a paper or a rough idea into a real training run
- You learn fast. You get to the core of a hard problem quickly and iterate on new ideas without hand-holding
- You care about production. You would rather see your model cut real inference costs for real users than add another line to a publication list
- Pretrained a transformer, or done serious post-training or RL on one
- Built a novel architecture or training method with results to back it up

Tags: Research