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Transluce

Product Engineer

Company: Transluce

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted on: March 29

Salary range: $250-300K + benefits


Description: Transluce is a non-profit research lab working towards responsible deployment and development of AI. We build world-class analysis tools for AI systems and use these to set industry standards for evaluation.


About the role: As our research programs bear fruit, we're looking for an exceptional product engineer to lead design and development of our user-facing software. Our goal is to develop widely-adopted standards and products that aid AI understanding.


Core responsibilities:


  • Design and build intuitive frontend interfaces for model understanding
  • Docent, for analyzing long agent transcripts
  • Monitor, for understanding internal model activations
  • Upcoming products
  • Implement scalable backend systems to power those interfaces
  • Create APIs, SDKs, and protocols that interface between our products and external libraries
  • Engage continuously with academic and industry customers to gather requirements and feedback
  • Maintain open source repositories and actively engage with the developer community


A strong candidate:


  • Excels in rapid cycles of design, implementation, testing, and iteration
  • Has strong design taste and a sharp attention to detail
  • Writes well-designed code that enables team-wide collaboration
  • Is proficient with our current stack: Python, Typescript, Next.js, AWS, serverless container runtimes
  • Has experience engaging with customers and stakeholders
  • (Nice to have) Has practical experience with language models (e.g., building apps on top of LLM APIs) and familiarity with fundamental ML concepts (e.g., ability to critically assess claims about model performance)


If you join us, you'll:


  • Have a central seat at the table in developing our flagship technology
  • Contribute to software with high direct impact (used by governments to inform AI policy) and cross-organizational reach (our stakeholders lie across frontier labs, academia, and startups).
  • Work directly with leading experts in AI and shape the future of human-in-the-loop model understanding


We are located in San Francisco and enthusiastic to work together in-person. We are open to sponsoring international visas.