Research-Driven Product Engineer

Stealth Post-LLM Startup
  • Sunnyvale, CA
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    Job Description

    Research-Driven Product Engineer\n
    \nAbout Dyssonance\n
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    Dyssonance is a research lab working on what comes after LLMs.

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    Large language models have transformed what machines can do with language. But language is not thought and generating an answer is not the same thing as reasoning about the world.

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    We’re building systems designed to reason continuously under uncertainty: to form and revise beliefs, build internal models of the world, and maintain coherent thought over time.

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    We call the resulting technology Cognitive Infrastructure. Much of our underlying architecture remains in stealth, but our ambition is simple: understand the foundations of thought well enough to build them.

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    We’re a small, highly technical team with backgrounds spanning DeepMind, Google, Apple, and other leading AI and technology organizations.

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    The Role\n
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    We’re looking for an early-career Research-Driven Product Engineer who loves building.

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    You’ll sit directly between research and product: understand new capabilities as they emerge from our research, figure out what they make possible, and turn them into working prototypes and products.

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    Often, the starting point won’t be a product spec. It’ll be a new capability and a question:

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    What can we build now that wasn’t possible before?

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    Your job is to actually build it.

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    What You’ll Do\n
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    • Turn research breakthroughs into working prototypes and products
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    • Explore new applications of Dyssonance’s Cognitive Infrastructure
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    • Build end-to-end across AI systems, backend, frontend, and APIs
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    • Create intuitive interfaces for complex reasoning capabilities
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    • Put prototypes in front of users and iterate quickly
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    • Work directly with research, engineering, product, and the founders
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    Who You Are\n
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    • You’re early in your career and have a strong technical foundation in CS, engineering, mathematics, physics or a related field
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    • You love building and learn new technologies quickly
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    • You can understand unfamiliar technical ideas well enough to build with them
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    • You enjoy hackathons, side projects, open source, or turning interesting ideas into prototypes
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    • You’re comfortable with Python and modern web development
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    • You’ve experimented with AI agents, model APIs, or other modern AI systems
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    • You’re comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership
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    What We Care About\n
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    We care much more about what you’ve built than how many years you’ve spent in industry.

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    Show us your GitHub projects, hackathon submissions, side projects, prototypes, or the weird experiment you built because you wanted to know whether it would work.

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    If your first reaction to a new technical capability is “what can I build with this?”, we’d love to talk to you.

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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSunnyvale, CA

    Skills

    • Appleunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Building Systemsunmatched
    • GitHubunmatched
    • Mathematicsunmatched
    • Open Sourceunmatched
    • Physicsunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
    • Web Programmingunmatched

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