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They have a full-stack understanding of machine learning architectures, love to optimize algorithms across disciplinary boundaries, and will deploy and train models directly on our prototype chips to help us prove out what our processor can do - no prior hardware experience required.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nDeploy and run trained models on prototype hardware and digital twins, producing working demonstrations on our chips.\n\nDevelop and adapt algorithms to train models on novel processing environments, including our prototype hardware.\n\nWork with hardware engineers to define and refine processor architecture based on insights learned through model training and experimentation.\n\nMaintain a deep curiosity about what makes AI systems work - and bring that curiosity to bear on how they run on new hardware.\n\nSupport go-to-market strategy development\n\nWhat We’re Looking For:\nPhD in machine learning, representation learning, theory of computation, or a related field - or equivalent industry experience working on foundation models at scale.\n\nExperience training models at scale - distributed training across many GPUs, working with large datasets and compute.\n\nHas built and trained neural networks from scratch\n\nDeep knowledge of the structure and internal operation of neural networks - including how and why they behave the way they do (e.g. interpretability or explainability work is a plus).\n\nExcitement about applying deep AI expertise to new and novel hardware environments - you don’t need prior experience with photonics or silicon, but you want to learn.\n\nFluent knowledge of Python\n\nFluency in PyTorch (preferred), TensorFlow, JAX, or other industry-standard ML software libraries\n\nWhy Ayo\nYou'll be a founding AI team member - shaping how we think about and deploy AI as a company.\n\nWe are working on a genuinely hard and interesting problem: unseating the GPU as the dominant AI compute platform.\n\nEarly-stage means real ownership, real impact, and meaningful equity.\n\nCompetitive salary. 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