Member of Technical Staff, Research

The Token Company (YC W26, HF0 S26) is a seed stage startup in San Francisco, CA, and has raised $12M from First Round Capital, NEA, YC and SV Angel along with investors such as founders of Dropbox, Slack, Supercell and Huggingface and key people from OpenAI, xAI and DoorDash.

The Token Company trains machine learning models to compress raw LLM inputs before they are passed to the expensive LLMs. Our models are able to recognize parts of inputs that are redundant, reducing inference costs for scale-ups and enterprises that integrate LLMs into their products. The team is 5 people with a research and product focus.

As a Member of Technical Staff on our research team, you'll own the model training stack end-to-end, from data and architecture to evaluation and shipping compression models into production. The ideal candidate fits our culture and is:

A quick learner: grasping the problem deeply and iterating fast on new ideas is important

Strong in ML fundamentals: comfortable training, fine-tuning and evaluating transformer models, and reasoning about new research

Have hands-on research experience: have built and trained models from scratch previously, ideally in a research lab, startup or scale-up, and care about getting them into production rather than just publishing

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for significant equity. We also provide housing, food, laundry and cleaning in SF, visa sponsorship, and a position to build the team around you with our resources.

Our website: thetokencompany.com

Compensation Range: $120K - $350K