(I want to preface that we don't have a ton of budget to expand our team right now and we want to keep the team small, but I also don't want to miss someone who would be a great fit)
We are a self-funded independent AI research lab in Zurich. Currently we explore ARC-AGI3, LLM/RL reasoning, and quant. We recently started a new LLM post-training and pre-training effort, led by some ex-engineers from the swissAI Apertus team. We also like to do some Kaggle on the side, our team includes the top #3 and #12 globally.
Our overall roadmap is to catch up with LLM capabilities, own the full stack, and use it to do our own independent research, pushing efficiency and looking for new paradigms. We expect our new cluster (2x NVL GB300) to be up by the end of the month.
Long term we want to switch to AI alignment/safety research as I believe this is all that matters when AI capability is high enough.
We look for people who are driven, who believe it's possible to make significant contributions to both AI capabilities and safety, and with previous experience pre-training and post-training LLMs and related infra.
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs ai.
This wouldn't happen if employees rejected cash-based compensation and decided to be founders themselves. Most employees trade risk for higher cash comp, and end up with less upside. This issue is mostly settled by the employment market
Tufalabs | Senior research/engineers | Full Time | Zurich, Onsite | 100-200k CHF | https://tufalabs.ai/
Our current focus is arc-agi 3. We recently hired the top #2 kaggler to join that effort.
We are looking for people deeply passionate about AI research. I am steering our work culture towards "live-to-work": If you wouldn't be doing AI research working somewhere else, then it is not a good fit. If you don't find yourself naturally reading about AI papers or doing random AI projects in your free time, then it is not a good fit.
We have high expectations and a generous equity structure to match.
Tufalabs is an independent AI research lab in Zurich, focused on high-impact academic-style AI research and large-scale LLM development. We care about compute (currently, 6× DGX B200, 2× NVL72 GB300 incoming). Our mission is to push the frontier of AI science while open-sourcing results and building the engineering muscle to pre- and post-train cutting-edge language models. The ultimate goal is automating AI research, with a strong focus on alignment and safety in the limit.
We can only sponsor visas for people with EU nationality. The position is onsite, fulltime.
We are self-funded, from what i call "self-propelled machine learning": I applied ML to cool domains and made returns that way. I can give more details about this privately.
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs.ai
Tufalabs | COO & Senior research/engineers | Full Time | Zurich, Onsite | 100-130k CHF | https://tufalabs.ai/
Tufalabs is an independent AI research lab in Zurich, focused on high-impact academic-style AI research and large-scale LLM development. We care about compute (currently, 6× DGX B200, 2× NVL72 GB200 incoming). Our mission is to push the frontier of AI science while open-sourcing results and building the engineering muscle to pre- and post-train cutting-edge language models. The ultimate goal is automating AI research, while keeping in mind AI alignment and safety. The ultimate goal is to make sure AI goes well for humanity.
I am looking for a COO to help scale from ~10 to ~15 people.
Ideally you care about AI research, you are excited about the idea of helping us move faster, you like to keep red-tape low, you are a technical person who can create automated processes, and have experience owning and running operations at a startup.
We are also open to senior engineers and researchers, comp negotiable
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs.ai
I founded Tufalabs about a year ago https://tufalabs.ai/
On the side, I'm making a snake game with codex-cli, and then making a ppo agent to learn to play it. Codex-cli can mostly oneshot the ppo implementation, which I find extremely impressive. Getting codex to tweak the ppo algorithm resulting in a RL agent fully solving the snake and visualizing it is very satisfying.
Tufalabs | COO & Senior research/engineers | Full Time | Zurich, Onsite | 100-130k CHF | https://tufalabs.ai/
Tufalabs is an independent AI research lab in Zurich, focused on high-impact academic-style AI research and large-scale LLM development. We care about compute (currently, 6× DGX B200, 2× NVL72 GB200 incoming). Our mission is to push the frontier of AI science while open-sourcing results and building the engineering muscle to pre- and post-train cutting-edge language models. The ultimate goal is automating AI research, while keeping in mind AI alignment and safety. The ultimate goal is to make sure AI goes well for humanity.
I am looking for a COO to help scale from ~10 to ~15 people.
Ideally you care about AI research, you are excited about the idea of helping us move faster, you like to keep red-tape low, you are a technical person who can create automated processes, and have experience owning and running operations at a startup.
We are also open to senior researchers, comp negotiable
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs.ai
Tufalabs | COO & Senior research/engineers | Full Time | Zurich, Onsite | 100-130k CHF | https://tufalabs.ai/
Tufalabs is an independent AI research lab in Zurich, focused on high-impact academic-style AI research and large-scale LLM development. We care about compute (currently, 6× DGX B200, 2× NVL72 GB200 incoming). Our mission is to push the frontier of AI science while open-sourcing results and building the engineering muscle to pre- and post-train cutting-edge language models. The ultimate goal is automating AI research, with a strong focus on alignment and safety.
I am looking for a COO to help scale from ~10 to ~15 people.
Ideally you care about AI research, you are excited about the idea of helping us move faster, you like to keep red-tape low, you are a technical person who can create automated processes, and have experience owning and running operations at a startup.
We are also open to senior researchers, comp negotiable
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs.ai
Tufalabs | AI researchers and engineers | Zurich | Full time | Onsite | $165k | https://tufalabs.ai/
We are a small, independent research group working on fundamental AI research.
Since around 2008, I always believed that AI research will be the most impactful technology to work on, both from an intellectual curiosity and technological capability perspective. After a few failed attempts to get into ML/AI research, I decided to apply it to quant finance, and then start an AI research lab from it.
This is how Tufalabs was funded about a year ago. We started working on ARC (https://arcprize.org/arc-agi), and since o3 we focus on LLM-based reasoning, self-improving loops and scaling trends. You can see some of our research there: https://tufalabs.ai/blog/_site/
We do not have too many spots left, but I want to make sure we don't miss-out on people who would be great fits. We look for obsessive people who share the same research interests.
To apply, email me at not_a_cat at fastmail com.
Tufalabs | Research engineer | Zurich | Full Time | On-site
We are a small, independent research group working on fundamental AI research.
The plan is to first solve the ARC benchmark (https://arcprize.org/), then use that to secure more funding, and move on to more difficult benchmarks. The research topics we want to investigate next are test-time compute, active inference, LLM-based reasoning and system2 reasoning. The ultimate goal is to do cool AI research leading up to AGI.
The lab has acquired the MindsAI team recently. MindsAI is the best team in the competition so far, pioneering techniques such as fine-tuning models on synthetic data, test-time-training, and test-time-finetuning.
We are looking for people who are driven and intrinsically motivated to work on both ARC and AI/ML research. The role would include working on the main system developed by MindsAI to accelerate progress.
Compensation: $100-135k/year + generous equity plan
(I want to preface that we don't have a ton of budget to expand our team right now and we want to keep the team small, but I also don't want to miss someone who would be a great fit)
We are a self-funded independent AI research lab in Zurich. Currently we explore ARC-AGI3, LLM/RL reasoning, and quant. We recently started a new LLM post-training and pre-training effort, led by some ex-engineers from the swissAI Apertus team. We also like to do some Kaggle on the side, our team includes the top #3 and #12 globally.
Our overall roadmap is to catch up with LLM capabilities, own the full stack, and use it to do our own independent research, pushing efficiency and looking for new paradigms. We expect our new cluster (2x NVL GB300) to be up by the end of the month.
Long term we want to switch to AI alignment/safety research as I believe this is all that matters when AI capability is high enough.
We look for people who are driven, who believe it's possible to make significant contributions to both AI capabilities and safety, and with previous experience pre-training and post-training LLMs and related infra.
If interested, email me at benjamin at tufalabs ai.