Agent Research Scientist

About Abundant AI models rely on two fundamental ingredients: compute and data. NVIDIA, the leader in compute, has a market cap of $3.5T and generated $150B in revenue last year. Abundant is building the NVIDIA for training data. Our founding team consists of second-time founders, ML engineers and data leads from Waymo, Google, Meta and AWS. Our team has previously collaborated with DeepMind to classify hate speech in YouTube videos, trained SOTA models for self-driving, and scaled data pipelines with thousands of human annotators. Our pioneering work in human computation, synthetic data, imitation learning and RL give us a solid advantage in delivering results to our customers. Why now? Training data is more important and more scarce than ever before. Scaling laws dictate that linear improvement in model performance demands an exponential increase in training data. But there is only one World Wide Web and most of it has already been trained on. The next advances will require new, diverse, and high-quality datasets, making training data more important and scarce than ever before. What happens if we succeed? Abundant will be the core enabler for AGI and beyond. Most of the challenges in model training are already solved. What’s missing is the data necessary to move from general knowledge to domain expertise; from chatbots to agents; and from digital intelligence to physical AI. Ask any AI researcher or roboticist: the core bottleneck to progress is the availability of data, i.e. “abundant data”. Abundant works with the most advanced AI labs and startups, as well as F500 enterprises.

About the Role

We're looking for researchers passionate about applying the latest models to SOTA problems. If you're excited about crafting the latest viral benchmark, new paradigms for scaffolding agents, self-improving agents, or RL, you should apply. We’re looking for folks that are obsessive about their work. In data, quantity is important but data quality is the differentiator for the winner in every space. In addition to this mindset, here are some skills that are a pre-requisite for working in startups:

• Strong communication skills, with teammates and with customers.
• Strong technical skills. Able to go deep, but also to simplify and prioritize.
• Fast at getting work done and picking up new skills.
• Curious about AI and technology; keeping up with the latest papers.
• Impact-oriented. Hacker. Always works on the most important part.
• Handle extremely ambiguity. Able to unblock yourself and others.

Here are three different personas that will succeed at Abundant: The Craftsman The Craftsman cares about their work out of care for the art. They may put extra care into UX or design, or into data integrity, or customer interaction. The Craftsman is energized by putting out great work. The Underdog The Underdog is ready to prove themselves. They feel overlooked because they haven’t been changed by school or their currently company, or they are tired of politics at a FAANG or late-stage startup. They’re looking for a chance to utilize their full potential and show off their latent talent. The Antifragilist Our team collectively has an uncommon trait: high pain tolerance. The Antifragilist is not simply stoic in the face of challenges; they grow and become stronger in the face of each subsequent challenge. Why Join Abundant?

• You’ll get to work on the core of AI (models and data), serving top researchers in the field.
• You will have direct interaction with customers, from operations to product to research.
• You will be doing career-defining work, often in the latest trends in AI and agents.
• You’ll get to work with experienced operators who care deeply about building a team and having a long-lasting impact.
• The founding team has known each other for almost a decade, having worked together at startups and companies in the past. We know what good and bad companies look like.
• We always start with empathy: empathy for the customer, empathy for our contributors, and empathy for each other.
• You will future-proof your career, since:
• In the long run, most jobs will be automated by digital agents or physical AI, whether it’s software engineering, data science, accounting, etc.
• Even physical jobs will be taken as foundation models take on robotics.
• Within two decades, the majority of jobs will be to generate training data for the next frontier. We aim to facilitate this new economy and be mindful of how we facilitate this progress.

Why not join Abundant? Here’s what you’re signing up for when you interview with us.

• This is a VC-based startup. You should expect a high failure rate.
• We enjoy working with other folks who hold themselves to the highest standard. It won’t be fun if you don’t feel the same way.
• The market is extremely fast-paced and dynamic. You might not get to go deep into one area, and you might not use any of the skill sets you come in with.

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