About The Role:
The NEAR AI engineering team is developing decentralized and confidential machine learning infrastructure to power user owned AI. We currently focus on building infrastructure to enable private and confidential inference that works across different compute providers, as well as a blockchain-based coordination layer that incentivizes computer providers to join the decentralized inference network.
You will own various components and drive critical decisions throughout their life cycles, including architecture, implementation, and maintenance. You will collaborate with highly knowledgeable and skilled colleagues who are passionate about solving hard problems that can disrupt the industry.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Contribute to the design of a decentralized inference network consisting of different hardware providers
- Design and implement private and confidential inference based on Trust Execution Environment
- Performance optimizations of model inference
What We're Looking For:
- Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
- Strong experience with distributed systems
- Agility to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
- Ability to write clean yet efficient code.
- Meticulousness to lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal.
- Good communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
We'd Love If You Have:
- Professional experience with Rust
- Experience with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
- Experience with blockchain protocols
Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Locations: San Francisco.
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What We Do
NEAR AI is an artificial intelligence research, engineering, and product development company committed to building an AI future owned by everyone. Founded by AI pioneer and former Google Deepmind researcher Illia Polosukhin, NEAR AI’s verifiable private inference infrastructure empowers developers and enterprises to deploy AI models with full control over their data. With hardware-backed private inference via a simple API, NEAR AI Cloud runs sensitive AI workloads securely and at scale, from privacy-critical consumer interactions to autonomous systems and critical infrastructure. NEAR AI Private Chat brings the same guarantees to users’ everyday questions and research. Serving over 100 million users across platforms such as Brave Nightly and OpenMind, NEAR AI is proven infrastructure for transforming sensitive data into safe intelligence and advancing a user-owned AI future. Learn more at https://near.ai/.
