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 responsible for leading and enabling our AI research and/or engineering team to achieve scientific breakthroughs in 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 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 atmosphere - high initiative, agile, and a can-do attitude in a fast changing environment.
Salary
Competitive salaries, including equity, apply.
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