Data Scientist - LLM

Overview: 

Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.

Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.

If you are a talented and intensely curious Data Scientist/LLM specialist with a passion for shipping impactful models, we want to hear from you. You will fine-tune and serve cutting-edge models, directly enhancing the workflows of the world’s top YouTube creators. We prioritize results and seek individuals who thrive on making a tangible difference.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll fine-tune and serve Large Language Models (LLMs) and LLM-based pipelines to help build best-in-class workflow tools for the world’s top YouTube creators, and you’ll ship updates and new features on a weekly basis
• You’ll be part of a small but mighty and highly motivated team (~15 people strong) that operates like a startup within a startup–with all the chaos that comes with that–but also real camaraderie, diverse backgrounds, skills and opinions and plenty of fun.
• You’ll learn and grow every day - from the industry, your peers and most importantly, your customer zero - the creators!

Responsibilities

• Fine-tune pre-trained language models for generative AI applications.
• Apply, discover and research techniques to optimize existing LLM training and serving, as well as improving the model quality.
• Develop and deploy the LLMs for a variety of content generation tasks.
• Share your discoveries, learnings and results with other modelers in the company working on related projects.
• Continuously research and stay up-to-date with recent advancements in NLP and large language models, applying novel techniques and methodologies to improve our models.
• Read all the newsletters and obsess over new industry learnings, startups utilizing LLMs in novel ways, and other ways the real world is utilizing LLMs.
• Conduct experiments and benchmarking to assess the performance of various model architectures and optimize hyperparameters.
• Troubleshoot and resolve any issues arising during model training and deployment.
• Work with product teams to ensure smooth product delivery with high standards, prioritize short-term returns and long-term growth.

Who You Are

• PhD in Data Science related field (Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, etc...)
• Hands-on experience in developing deep learning models (CNNs, RNNs), optimizing model training and tuning and in deploying Large Language Models such as GPT, LLaMA, BERT, or other Transformer-based architectures
• Knowledgeable in tokenization & embeddings, transfer learning, meta learning and predictive modeling.
• Expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and 
• Intensely curious to learn how AGI is evolving day in and day out.
• Excited about creators 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Good knowledge in other deep learning models such as CNN, RNN.
• Take a creative and strategic approach to solve hard problems. Simplify the complex. Bring in fresh ideas from new places.

Why Spotter

• Medical insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental & vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Stock options
• Complimentary gym access
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Los Angeles. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is: $150K-$200K salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Spotter’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual discretionary bonus and equity.

Spotter is an equal opportunity employer. Spotter does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics or information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, use of or request for family or medical leave, political affiliation, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local laws. 

Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations as part of the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.