Lead ML Research Engineer

About Slingshot

We're a team of machine learning engineers training task-specific generative models for psychology. Our goal is to build an AI therapist to help people change their mind and their lives in the ways that they want to. We partner with organizations around the globe and power use cases, including AI-assisted crisis text response, while securing best-in-class datasets to power our models.

Success to us means every human being in need of support having somewhere to go. We're a well-funded, Series A startup backed by top-tier tech investors from a16z, Felicis, Menlo, TMV, SV Angel, Huggingface, ElevenLabs, Replit, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and others.

We're building a powerful team by empowering our engineers with the autonomy, flexibility, and resources to do their best work. We dream big and iterate fast. If that sounds like home, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

As Member of Technical Staff, you’ll work with our founding team across ML research and product development. To be successful in this role, you have to care about how these models perform to help people in the real world - more than how they perform on artificial evals. We ship a lot. You’ll be able to work at a faster pace than almost anywhere else while writing high-quality code and produci...