About this opportunity
Twenty Labs lists this Member of Technical Staff – Founding AI Researcher opportunity in san mateo, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Twenty Labs is an applied research lab working on augmenting knowledge workers, starting with finance. The penetration of AI in finance is still limited and we want to be the company that delivers AGI to finance through our product, Compound (@getcompoundai ). Some product videos can be found on YouTube .
You’ll be joining a highly technical founding team, including leading researchers and engineers from Google DeepMind/Brain and Microsoft who pioneered research in language models, shipped GenAI products to billions in production, paired with domain expertise from top finance and consulting firms (Coatue, Bain, Y Combinator).
Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision insurance for you and dependents, including $0 premium plan with company HSA contribution
401(k) plan with 4% match
Catered daily team lunch
Urban downtown San Mateo office, 5-minute walk from Caltrain and free parking
Time off as you need it
Top-quality computers and ergonomic workspace
Corporate AI subscriptions as much as you need for work
Our culture and how we operate
We seek out the 10% of people who account for 90% of productivity and strive to be a small and talent-dense team.
No formal performance reviews. If you’re here, you’re a high-performer.
Our organization is flat with no middle managers and you will work directly with the founders who all code.
No empire building – we operate as one team.
If you see something you can fix efficiently end-to-end, just do it.
We love being in-person at our San Mateo office 5-days a week for maximum bandwidth communication and enjoying delicious local food together.
We write blameless post-mortems (incident reports) for any service outages to document and constantly improve reliability.
We “Feel the AGI” and want to bring it to others to massively improve productivity.
Work Authorization
We prefer candidates who can start immediately, but can provide immigration assistance for exceptional cases.
Member of Technical Staff – Founding AI Researcher
Compensation: Base salary of $150,000 - $300,000. Top-of-market equity
Location: San Mateo, CA
Your role
We’re seeking researchers with demonstrated research track record or have clear potential to excel at research (like AI residents) to innovate on the bleeding edge of applying AI to knowledge work. You’ll work directly with founders to improve the performance of agents on financial analysis tasks through a variety of techniques, which may include prompt/context engineering, continued pre‑training or post‑training (fine‑tuning + RL).
You, the ideal candidate:
Have demonstrated either research impact through high‑quality publications or experience at top‑tier research labs, or exceptional research potential
Codes as well as the best engineers, which is important to be a top researcher
Is creative in coming up with contrarian ideas and validates/rejects them quickly with experimental rigor
End‑to‑end detail‑oriented, understanding the whole ML pipeline from data provenance to training and model evaluation
Knows how to manipulate tensors, not just configs
Familiar with large‑scale model training infrastructure
Can assess when fine‑tuning makes sense vs prompting/context‑engineering
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Worksite address
san mateo, CA, 94409, US
Who can apply
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