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Our Model, Bombadil, decodes those signals into real-time insights about plant health, growth, and stress. Our IoT hardware measures the hidden electrical signals in plants and trees, paired with environmental data, and our foundation model. We're a small, fast-moving company working at the intersection of biology, hardware, AI, and IoT.\nThe Role\nYou'll join the small team building Bombadil and work directly on training: the data the model learns from, the architecture and training decisions that determine whether a run succeeds, and the evaluation work to measure our progress. This is a small team. You’ll drive machine learning projects from idea to production from end-to-end, rather than specializing into one piece of a much larger machine, and you’ll help build systems and practices that scale.\nThis is a senior, individually-contributing role with no direct reports, reporting to our Head of AI & ML.\nWhat You'll Own\nTransformer training. 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Develop robust, repeatable model lifecycle systems for rapid iteration.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nHas built and trained transformer models from scratch, not only fine-tuned them, and can speak concretely to the data, architecture, and training-stability decisions involved.\n\nRoughly 3+ years of hands-on transformer-specific experience is ideal, generally within 5-10 years of overall ML/engineering experience.\n\nHas shipped or maintained ML systems in a practical capacity.\n\nComfortable driving projects end-to-end, from data collection through evaluation, without a large specialized team around you.\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals: you build and maintain real training and evaluation infrastructure, not just notebooks.\n\nTechnical or scientific depth, not necessarily in CS or ML specifically.\n\nComfortable being one of a very small number of people responsible for a company's core model.\n\nStrong plus\nExperience with biological, environmental, or other scientific data.\n\nWhat This Isn't\nThis isn't a role for someone who wants a large ML org's infrastructure and specialization already built around them; on a team this size, you'll cover more of the pipeline yourself. 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