Machine Learning Engineer

Company: 222
Location: New York
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

We're an early-stage startup working on building the future of social. We are not excited about a future where humans spend the majority of their day in a virtual world. By facilitating genuine human connections IRL, we're building a product that swings the pendulum in the other direction. We're building the world's first IRL social prediction model - trained on hundreds of thousands of points of unique human to human interaction data.We're backed by a world-class set of investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator (W23), Upfront Ventures, NEA, Jaegermeister, 1517 Fund, Cory Levy (Z Fellows), the Founder of Dropbox (Arash Ferdowsi), the Founder of On Deck (Julian Weisser) & more.What You'll Be Doing At 222:You will be joining 222 as the first ML-focused engineering hire - spearheading all things machine learning, data processing & pipelining, feature engineering, & data analysis.You Should Only Apply If:

• You're passionate about solving the problem 222 is tackling and excited to use classic machine learning & LLMs to predict humans' social behavior.
• You have experience fine-tuning an LLM.
• You have experience working with and building ETL pipelines and preparing data for experimentation.
• You're comfortable building ML/data infrastructure and pipelines for experimentation, training, and deployment.
• You have trained applied ML models that are used in production.
• You have a strong stance on the ethics surrounding user psychology in social products.
• Regardless of personal experience, you're excited about wearing different hats across machine learning, full-stack engineering, & architecture.
• Demonstrated history of building outside of work/school (projects/products, applications, music, art, etc.).
• You have experience in:
• Designing backend algorithms.You Should NOT Apply If:
• You don't have experience building web apps with React/Next.Js.
• You don't have experience with backend development using Python.
• You don't have experience with backend algorithm design.We are looking for:
• Full-stack engineer with extensive web and backend algorithms design experience.
• First principles thinking.
• History of building things from scratch.
• Strongly opinionated about our current social fabric and its future.What we are offering:
• 401K matching.
• Fully comped 222 experiences.
• Platinum PPO, 100% covered by the company, $0 annual deductible.
• A chance to join an early-stage startup backed by an incredible set of investors.
• The opportunity to work IRL with a tight-knit team of co-workers and friends.
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