About Kailua Labs

Kailua Labs is a seed stage startup building a search platform that unlocks next-generation search and enrichment on your images, text and video through one simple SaaS API. Our mission is to make content in every application accessible the way people already think and talk about it.

We are backed by Matrix Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Firsthand Ventures, StartX and former execs in top tech companies like Apple, AirBnB, Oracle, LinkedIn, and more, as well as researchers from MIT and Google X. Our founders are ex-Apple engineers with deep experience shipping ML and search systems to hundreds of millions of users across the globe and we have an incredibly talented founding team of ex-Apple, Google and Amazon engineers. We are moving quickly and are passionate about providing a magical experience for our growing customer base.

The Role

We are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for Search Relevance. You will be responsible for ensuring that our system provides the highest quality search results in the industry for all our customers, demos and application areas. You will devise evaluation strategies, build evaluation sets, run benchmarks, ensure quality monitoring is in place, and set the agenda / prioritization for where to focus our quality iterations. You will be empowered to model & prototype solutions and will either get them implemented in production or work with one of our other ML engineers and Applied Scientists to make sure it gets implemented at the highest standard of quality. You have exceptional attention to detail, love finding the root cause problems for things. You understand the arguments for Data Centric ML and are excited by the latest developments in LLMs, pre-training, fine-tuning, instruction-tuning and in-context learning.

Who You Are

You love to learn and look for ways to learn at an accelerated pace
You are compassionate and help others around you
You can quickly hit the ground running, map out challenges and opportunities and develop a plan to improve things in the short and long term
You have strong ownership of any task that you take on, driving it to success whether or not you've done it before
You can cut through ambiguity and deliver amazing results even when there isn't a lot of guidance
You are always looking for better ways of doing things, trying out new tools and processes
You form meaningful relationships wherever you go: people respect and like you because you value them
You seek continuous feedback from those around you and are willing to share feedback across all levels of the company

Requirements & Skills

Experience with deep learning, LLMs, and Transformers
Tech stack: PyTorch, Python, and Pandas
Experience in search and recommendations is welcome but not required
Preferred Masters in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity.
Platinum-level health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family. We cover 99% of employee premiums and 95% of dependent premiums.
Flexible Work - remote or in-person. We have a flexible work environment - work remotely from any U.S. timezone, or join us in-person at our San Francisco office.
Unlimited PTO - take time when you need it to rest, relax, and recharge with unlimited PTO (minimum 4 weeks encouraged).
Team events. Distributed work is awesome, but so is getting together in-person. Hang out with your colleagues at planned team events around the country.
Brand new MacBook Pro (or PC if you prefer)

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Kailua Labs we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Kailua Labs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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