Who you are

• Either a cracked SWE passionate about growing as an ML/AI Engineer, or a cracked ML Engineer who's fast at prototyping.
• You can run experiments quickly and develop an internal compass to estimate which hypotheses have the highest expected value to test.
• You're mission-oriented and looking for your life's work. You care about America's ability to build.
• You love ownership and don't mind ambiguity or unblocking yourself.
• You have the curiosity of a policy wonk to digest building codes and architectural diagrams.

What you'll do

• 60+% of your time will be spent designing and executing experiments to improve AI agents - you'll build and test new tools, fine-tune models, optimize prompts, and more.
• Talk to users and dogfood the product weekly
• Wear hats as needed on topics ranging from running computer vision experiments, lightweight data engineering, building internal tooling, improving the webapp, and more.

Our operating principles

• Fail fast and cheap. Slugging percentage matters more than batting average.
• We can make a lot of mistakes as long as we get a few things right.
• A written culture - we document our thinking on the few things that matter most.
• Internal tooling is a first-class use of time.
• In-person work is a must.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($120k-$200k).
• Generous early-stage equity (0.5%-2%).
• Free lunch and dinner (after 7 pm) at the office.
• Fully paid health insurance with over $1000/year in employer contributions to an HSA.
• A 401(k) that accepts pre-tax and Roth contributions.
• A commuter benefits account and a monthly wellness benefit.
• Opportunity to shape the future of our country.

Interview process

• Initial call (30 min) - Informal chat on your interests and experience
• Take-home exercise (Week) - We'll give you a week to find building code violations in a floorplan. In so doing, you'll learn about the building codes and architectural diagrams, and gain a sense for how to automate this work.
• Coding Challenge (60 min) - Designed to mirror real work you'd do at Mason, you'll build a prototype for a slice of our product. AI coding tools are strongly encouraged.
• Cultural fit interview (30 min) - Learn more about how you've navigated challenges in (or outside) of work.
• Paid work trial (3-5 days) - We'll set you up to run evals for our multimodal agent on our repo, and we'll ask you to generate hypotheses for experiments to run, run those experiments, and then analyze them. You'll be evaluated on your speed at running thoughtful experiments. We do reference calls in parallel
• Full-time offer 🎉