Member of Technical Staff, Generalist

View all jobs Member of Technical Staff, Generalist Bay Area Engineering In office Full-time Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Our Mercury model is the world’s fastest reasoning LLM and first commercially available diffusion LLM, delivering 5x greater speed and efficiency than today’s LLMs, with best-in-class quality. We are the AI researchers and engineers behind such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO. The Role If you believe you can make a meaningful contribution to our team but aren't sure which of our specialized roles is the best fit, this is the listing for you. Why Join Inception Work with World-Class Talent : Collaborate with the inventors of diffusion models and leading AI researchers Shape Foundational Technology : Your decisions will influence how the next generation of AI products are built and used Immediate Impact : Join at the ground floor where your contributions directly shape product direction and company trajectory Perks & Benefits Competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing startup Flexible vacation and paid time off (PTO) Health, dental, and vision insurance 401k match Catered meals (breakfast, lunch, & dinner) Commuter subsidies A collaborative and inclusive culture About Us Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Today’s autoregressive LLMs generate tokens sequentially, which makes them painfully slow and expensive. Inception’s diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) generate answers in parallel. They are 5x faster and more efficient, while delivering best-in-class quality. Inception was co-founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon , who co-invented such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO, UCLA professor Aditya Grover , who co-invented node2vec, decision transformers, and d1 reasoning, and Cornell professor and Afresh co-founder Volodymyr Kuleshov , who co-invented MDLM and Block Diffusion. We pioneered the application of diffusion to language, with world’s first (and only) commercially available dLLM, Mercury. We are currently deploying our large-scale diffusion LLMs at Fortune 500 companies. Diffusion is the technology behind today’s image and video AI, and we’re making it the standard for LLMs as well. Our team includes engineers from AWS, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Microsoft, HashiCorp, and OpenAI. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we are backed by top-tier venture capitalists, including Menlo Ventures, Mayfield, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Innovation Endeavors, and by tech luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, and Eric Schmidt. If you are talented, innovative, and ambitious, come help us invent the future of AI. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr Inception Labs