We're seeking an exceptional and ambitious AI/ML who thrives in high-intensity environment and wants to build something revolutionary.
Our team moves fast, works hard and solves big problems. We're focused on rapid execution and creating outsized impact in the legal space.
This is your chance to be part of something extraordinary!
👋🏼 Hello! We’re ALMA
Backed by leading VCs such as Bling Capital, Forerunner, Village Global, NFX, Conviction, MVP Ventures, NEA and Silkroad Innovation Hub, Alma is on a mission to forever change immigration for the better!
We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting $10b market that has never seen an amazing product!
🚀 Why you should join ALMA
You'll work directly with founders committed to revolutionizing immigration. From day one, tackle complex problems using cutting-edge AI research and technology. Learn and grow under our CTO's mentorship—a tech leader with extensive experience at Uber and other successful startups who will push you to expand your capabilities and make significant impact quickly.
🧠 Founding
Team
Our founding team combines top expertise across tech, legal, and product:
- Shuo, CTO: Built Uber's ML Platform (Michelangelo) for 5+ years and led AI/ML at SupportLogic (Series B startup using predictive & generative AI)
- Aizada, CEO: Harvard Law graduate with 7+ years legal experience including Cooley and McKinsey
- Assel, CPO - Harvard Business School graduate with 7 years building tech products at SoFi, Step, and Ernst & Young
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What we're looking for
We are looking for a highly-skilled and ambitious AI engineer with 2+ years of LLM experience such as pre-training, mid-training, post-training, inference and building agentic workflows. You will own the AI products end-to-end and trail blaze the path of content generation in legal tech using AI. We need you to be in the 99th percentile of having a “can-do” attitude.
✅ Responsibilities
- Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build and ship AI-native products.
- Translate complex AI research into actionable solutions that deliver measurable business value. Ensure that AI initiatives are aligned with business objectives and deliver impactful results.
- Design & implement LLM-powered products, such as prompting, agents, experimentation, LLM Ops, measuring quality & performance.
- Evaluate and productize various types of LLMs for our product use cases
- Research and stay current with the latest news, tooling, and techniques in NLP such as advanced prompting & chaining, function calling, embeddings, evaluations, building agents, distilling reasoning, etc.
- Own your work end-to-end and integrate the research into our product
🛠 Role Requirements
- MS/Phd in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related fields.
- 2+ years of professional experience in LLMs with a proven track record of leading successful AI projects.
- Strong background in applied AI/ML research and development, with publications in top-tier conferences and journals.
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on practical application and business impact.
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Experience building and shipping applications built on top of LLMs into production and evaluating & improving performance over time after deployment.
- Experience with LLM Ops & tooling (e.g. vector databases, prompt ops).
- Well-developed sense through experience of what works and doesn’t work when building applications on top of LLMs.
⭐️ Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A).
