Connectionism: Research Blog by Thinking Machines Lab. Backed by a16z, Accel and GV.
About the role
As a Model Designer, you’ll shape how our models behave and feel, and how people experience working with them. Working alongside the researchers building these models, you might design: how a model reads intent, when it acts on its own, when it asks, and whether the person comes away sharper than they started. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Clear communication, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing
- Demonstrated ability to understand users whose needs and contexts differ from your own, through work across varied populations, domains, or cultures
- Several years of experience in a role focused on how people interact with technology, such as product design, UX research, content or conversation design, or model behavior work at an AI lab
- We encourage you to apply if you bring some of the following, we don’t expect anyone to bring all of them
- Experience designing model behavior or personality, or influencing technical roadmaps in domains where quality depends on judgment and there is no single right answer
- Experience shaping how models approach research, exercise judgment, express uncertainty, or reflect a coherent set of values
More about this role
The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own, and crafting interfaces that broaden human-AI communication. We believe the future worth building is human, and we're hiring people who want to build it.
As a Model Designer, you’ll shape how our models behave and feel, and how people experience working with them. Working alongside the researchers building these models, you might design: how a model reads intent, when it acts on its own, when it asks, and whether the person comes away sharper than they started.
You’ll hold several things in tension: pushing what our models can do, anticipating what someone is reaching for before they’ve fully said it, and keeping the person’s judgment at the center of the work. We’re looking for creative generalists who care deeply about design, technology, and the humans on the other side of each turn.
Work closely with researchers to understand, predict, and shape model behavior, translating design judgment into training data, evaluations, and lasting changes in the models themselves.
Design how our models...
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