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Research Engineer, Applied Research

About the team

The Applied AI Research team works on innovative solutions to solve practical real-world problems with direct impact on users of the Aika API. We work on open-ended research projects to enable successful products. We care about solving real-world problems, while keeping our products up to a high safety standard. We care about applications driven by user feedback, as well as long-term research ​​with significant impacts on the product.

About the role:

We seek capable and self-motivated Research Engineers to work with us. This role requires good engineering skills, writing bug-free machine learning code, and building the science behind the algorithms employed. The most outstanding deep learning results are increasingly attained at a massive scale, and these results require engineers who are comfortable working in large distributed systems. Combining research with engineering will lead to cutting-edge AI products and most major advances in AI of the future. You will enjoy the role even more if you are motivated by solving real-world problems and building techniques to empower products to benefit the wide public.

You might enjoy this role if you:

  • Excited about Aika’s approach to research.
  • Have strong programming skills.
  • Have experience working in large distributed systems.


About Aika

Aika is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

At Aika, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Benefits and Perks

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
  • Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
  • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
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