Reproducible machine learning

ML Advocate & Community

Location
Berkeley, CA / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
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Ben Firshman
Ben Firshman
Founder

About the role

We are looking for people with ML skills who love teaching, getting people excited about things, and working with communities. You might be a researcher looking for a more people-facing role, an ML evangelist working at a company, or a PhD student looking for some work on the side.

You will help us make every ML researcher know of and love Replicate. That might involve building fun projects with Replicate and writing about them. It might be organizing meetups, making videos, writing tutorials. You've probably got better ideas than we do.

We also have an existing community of researchers on Replicate, Discord, GitHub, and Twitter. You will help us support and grow that community.

When starting this company, we thought: instead of getting a job at the best place to work, let's make that best place to work. We want to work with the best people in an inclusive, supportive environment. And, just have fun while we're at it. You will help us make that place.

This role can be full-time or part-time. It might be multiple people, depending on what your skills are. You don't necessarily need experience being an evangelist or running communities — we're looking for the right people.

We're not just checking boxes, so you don't need to satisfy all of these things. But, you might have some of these qualities:

  • Superb at communicating and teaching ML concepts.
  • Experience building and working with communities.
  • Experience working with open source communities.
  • Ideally already respected and have a following in an ML community.
  • Ideally good at public speaking and getting people excited about what we're building.
  • You really get it. We think we're building something quite exciting here, and we want you to be excited about it too.
  • Kind-hearted and creative.
  • Located anywhere. We have a beautiful office in Berkeley, CA where some of us work, but we're mostly remote across the US and Europe. We operate as a remote-first company.

We want our team to feel invested in what we're building, so we will give the right person a meaningful amount of equity. And, all the usual things. (We're European so you'll get really good healthcare.)

Why you should join Replicate

Machine learning research is really similar to open source software: it's a worldwide community of people sharing new techniques and building upon each other's work. But, the standard way of sharing new work is publishing a PDF on a mailing list from the 90s.

Using machine learning inside companies it isn't much better — there's no version control, random files are scattered on S3, nobody knows what's running where.

To fix this, we're building a place where researchers can publish an actual, runnable version of their work. Other researchers can run their work and build upon it. It will be a community of all the best ML researchers.

Inside companies, this will be the place where researchers and engineers store models. Models will be stored in one place in a runnable format, so other people can try them out, build upon them, and deploy them to production.

We're also building the open source infrastructure to make this work: tools for versioning and packaging machine learning models.

Ultimately, we want machine learning to be as collaborative and accessible as open source software. You shouldn’t have to understand complex math or write an academic PDF to do useful things with ML. It should be as easy as forking code on GitHub or importing a package from npm.

Replicate
Founded:2019
Team Size:4
Location:Berkeley, CA
Founders
Ben Firshman
Ben Firshman
Founder
Andreas Jansson
Andreas Jansson
Founder