Member of Technical Staff, Research
The Token Company, San Francisco
The role
The Token Company (YC W26, HF0 S26) · San Francisco, CA
The Token Company, San Francisco
The Token Company (YC W26, HF0 S26) · San Francisco, CA
The Token Company is a seed stage startup in San Francisco. We have raised $12M from First Round Capital, NEA, Y Combinator and SV Angel, alongside the founders of Dropbox, Slack, Supercell and Hugging Face, and key people from OpenAI, xAI and DoorDash.
We train machine learning models that compress raw LLM inputs before they reach the expensive model. Our models learn which parts of an input are redundant and strip them out, cutting inference costs for the scale-ups and enterprises building on LLMs. We are a team of five with a tight research and product focus, and we ship what we train.
As a Member of Technical Staff on the research team, you own the model training stack end to end: data, architecture, training, evaluation, and shipping compression models into production. This is a from-scratch model training role. You will spend your time designing and training models on NVIDIA B200s, not wiring up RAG pipelines or prompting other people's APIs.
Competitive base salary plus significant equity. We also cover housing, food, laundry and cleaning in San Francisco, sponsor visas, and give you the resources and a real seat to build the research team around you.
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