Head of AI Research / Engineering

Eon collects large-scale neuroscientific data sets to train machine learning based brain emulations. We believe it is possible to scale this technology in a safe, secure and trustworthy manner in the next decade and empower humanity in unprecedented ways.

Role

This is a senior / executive role responsibile for leading and enabling our AI research and / or engineering team to scientific breakthroughs on machine learning driven brain emulation, using exabytes of neurodata.

Responsibilities

• Executing and shaping strategy:

  • Early: neurodata scaling laws, transformer based non-invasive human brain foundation model and small organisms emulations

  • Medium: GPT-4 sized training runs for Mice and Non-Human Primate emulation

  • 5y+ : Human brain emulation prototypes on exascale compute

• Budgeting: Responsible for R&D budget

  • Expected budget of ~$30M in first 18 months, eventually hundreds of millions of dollars. (A similar amount will be invested in data acquisition efforts.)

• Team leadership and development

  • Team will start off with 3-5 individuals and probably will quickly grow to 15, eventually 50-150 people in 2-3 years

  • Build development infrastructure from scratch to train frontier models

• Department specific Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management

• Stakeholder & partnership engagement

  • Close collaboration with our data acquisition team

  • Data centers and cloud providers

  • Research institutions like Mila, Allen Institute or Janelia

  • Publication of technical reports / papers

• Fundraising

Skills

• Technical

  • Experience with training large multi-billion parameter models on multimodal datasets

  • 5-10+ years of industry experience in software development and exceptional ability.

  • Demonstrated experience with distributed computing frameworks and large-scale cloud services.

  • Ideally experience with the different types of neuroscientific datasets.

• Leadership

  • Oversaw engineering departments, ideally in a start-up context

• Publication track record

• We expect everybody, independent of their role to be

  • Practicing proactive, concise, and clear written communication.

  • Exceptionally output driven and a well-calibrated, fast, autonomous, and diligent problem-solver.

  • Excited about startup athmosphere - high initiative, agile, and a can-do attitude in a fast changing environment.

Salary

Competitive salaries, including equity, apply.