Head of AI Research / Engineering

Company: Eon Systems PBC
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

Eon collects large-scale neuroscientific data sets to train machine learning based brain emulations. We believe it is possible to scale this technology in a safe, secure and trustworthy manner in the next decade and empower humanity in unprecedented ways.RoleThis is a senior / executive role responsible for leading and enabling our AI research and/or engineering team to achieve scientific breakthroughs in machine learning driven brain emulation, using exabytes of neurodata.Responsibilities

• Executing and shaping strategy:
  • Early: neurodata scaling laws, transformer based non-invasive human brain foundation model and small organisms emulations.
  • Medium: GPT-4 sized training runs for Mice and Non-Human Primate emulation.
  • 5y+: Human brain emulation prototypes on exascale compute.
  • Budgeting: Responsible for R&D budget.
    • Expected budget of -$30M in first 18 months, eventually hundreds of millions of dollars. (A similar amount will be invested in data acquisition efforts.)
    • Team leadership and development:
      • Team will start off with 3-5 individuals and probably will quickly grow to 15, eventually 50-150 people in 2-3 years.
      • Build development infrastructure from scratch to train frontier models.
      • Department specific Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management.
      • Stakeholder & partnership engagement:
        • Close collaboration with our data acquisition team.
        • Data centers and cloud providers.
        • Research institutions like Mila, Allen Institute or Janelia.
        • Publication of technical reports/papers.
        • Fundraising.Skills
          • Technical:
            • Experience with training large multi-billion parameter models on multimodal datasets.
            • 5-10+ years of industry experience in software development and exceptional ability.
            • Demonstrated experience with distributed computing frameworks and large-scale cloud services.
            • Ideally experience with different types of neuroscientific datasets.
            • Leadership:
              • Oversaw engineering departments, ideally in a start-up context.
              • Publication track record.
              • We expect everybody, independent of their role, to be:
                • Practicing proactive, concise, and clear written communication.
                • Exceptionally output driven and a well-calibrated, fast, autonomous, and diligent problem-solver.
                • Excited about startup atmosphere - high initiative, agile, and a can-do attitude in a fast changing environment.SalaryCompetitive salaries, including equity, apply.
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