Investigations Engineer

• Ready to work at the intersection of investigative journalism and AI? We’re looking for software engineers to help us find and publish groundbreaking, front-page investigations on the rise and threat of AI slop. You’ll work on building and running the research engine that we used to find undisclosed hallucinations and AI-generated content on the web
• Our work so far has produced widely covered reports examining published output from the world’s top consulting firms, and academic publishing venues, earning front-page coverage in the Financial Times, Forbes, The Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Times of India, and other notable media
• Use our AI detection and hallucination detection models to find compelling examples of AI slop on the internet and in publishing
• Synthesize data into well-written prose, compelling visualizations and interactive user experiences (vibecoding permitted)
• Build search engine query generators and targeted crawlers for document collection on the web
• Build automations to monitor social feeds and generate leads
• Craft machine learning ranking and classification systems to detect documents that have fabrications using LLMs
• Create data processing pipelines that can operate robustly at scale
• Help improve our models based on how they perform on new domains and investigations we pursue
• You will be working directly with
• Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, won Best ML Hack at Stanford’s 2019 and 2021 Hackathons
• George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research
• Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand
• Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career

Benefits

• 💡Mentorship opportunities with our world-class advisors and investors
• 🏝 Flexible PTO
• 🎉 Regular company retreats
• 💻 Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices
• 🏥 Health, dental, and mental health benefits
• 🙌 Wellness and learning stipend
• 🍰 Equity- The ideal candidate is adept at building pipelines for processing web-scale content, skilled at creating polished reports and visuals, and has a strong instinct for recognizing newsworthy findings
• 1+ YOE in SQL for data management, ideally PostgreSQL
• 2+ YOE in Python for developing resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs
• Experience with web scraping and search at scale, including search, LLM, OCR, and data crawling tools
• Entrepreneurial spirit in being able to bootstrap different approaches of data acquisition, speaking with stakeholders and identifying newsworthy content
• Data analysis and visualization to analyze results and create plots that communicate findings to stakeholders
• Ability to tell creative and compelling stories using data
• Experience with basic cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
• Ability to build / vibecode webpages to display results
• Applied ML for ranking and calibration
• Infrastructure-as-code and container tooling experience
• OSINT and evidence verification experience
• Ability to find data when others cannot
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