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Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Adept is an ML research and product lab building the next frontier of models that can take actions in the digital world. We’ve raised a $65M Series A from Greylock and Addition and several angel investors, and were recently highlighted by Fortune

We're looking for passionate team members who are energized by our ambitious mission, excited by a fast-paced startup environment, and eager to learn and collaborate together in our San Francisco office.

Check out our ACT demo to see what the future holds.

We’re hiring engineers on our team across several different roles. If you want to build large, greenfield software projects geared toward accomplishing ambitious goals, and have a willingness to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

Team fit will be determined through the interview process as well as candidate interest, so check out some more about the different teams!

Tool Use team

We're looking for Software Engineers to help us teach neural networks to use tools. What does that mean? An example tool might be a Calendar API - the neural network might automatically add and modify calendar appointments given natural language instructions from a user. Just doing that one thing right would be hard, but we want a general system that works with every available software tool. This is an ambitious goal, and it requires building substantial new software from scratch - this is where you come in! Learn more about the Tool Use team here.

Product Engineer 

As a product engineer you'll work collaboratively with a PM and a designer to understand user workflows and requirements and how to translate that into our product. You'll also work closely with researchers to optimize user latency along with providing a great user experience. This person will also build the infra and integrations to serve the model to lots of users that use multiple tools.

Data Team

This team is responsible for building data pipelines for new types of data to facilitate novel use cases for the model. This team is working to improve the performance, reliability, and biases of the most important data pipelines. You'll investigate product usage and run ML or product experiments to evaluate changes to datasets.

General Software Engineering Skills You'll Need to Bring:

  • Relevant experience with designing and building software systems either as a full-stack engineer or back-end engineer
  • Preferred if you have previously worked with building and serving machine learning models
  • Expertise in building scalable web applications and optimizing them to reduce latency and increase throughput
  • High standard of execution speed; “no job is too small” attitude to get things done
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • You're willing and able to quickly learn how to do new things that nobody on the team has done before

Our benefits 

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage - 100% for employees
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Unlimited vacation time
  • 4 remote weeks per year - work from anywhere
  • Competitive salary 
  • Stock options 
  • Daily meals + comfortable SF office 
  • Commuter benefits
  • Dog friendly 

Adept is an equal opportunity employer. We're excited about candidates who will raise the bar of our team, regardless of specific experiences -- we encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

  1. Application Review Submit your application for one of the positions below and answer a few short questions. If your application is a fit, our team will reach out to you to get the process started.
  2. Take home technical assessment: We’ll send you a take-home assignment which is designed to test for role-specific skills. This will vary based on the role and may include a timed project or a HackerRank assessment. We aim for these assignments to be completed in 90 minutes or less.
  3. Hiring Manager Screen: After reviewing your solutions, one of our hiring managers will reach out to get to know you and learn about your experience, and you can ask them more questions about the team and the role.
  4. Screening Interview: You'll have a 45 minute technical interview which will vary based on each role. This will test your fundamental knowledge, expertise, and creative thinking.
  5. Onsite Interviews: We invite candidates onsite at our office in San Francisco to spend a day with the team and learn more about what it's like to work at Adept. You may have 3-4 technical interviews along with a culture-fit interview.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

We are a small team of 18 and as we work to expand, we want diversity at the forefront of our recruiting efforts. This means we use structured interviewing processes to assess all candidates similarly and fairly, and we have all gone through unconscious bias training and regularly read articles to expand our mindset and knowledge on this topic.

We are interested in mentoring and teaching, and learning together as a lot of the things we want to do haven't been done before. We are also a group of people very open to feedback.

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