RitualRI

Machine Learning Engineer

Ritual is building a decentralized network for open AI infrastructure, enabling developers to integrate AI models into any blockchain protocol, application, or smart contract.

Ritual

Employee count: 11-50

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About Ritual

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.

About the role

We are looking for a talented and motivated Machine Learning Product Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work on a variety of projects related to applied machine learning, including working with the product team on automating Data ETL pipelines, deploying machine learning models, and shipping customer-facing products.

  • Scale up model inference and running predictions at scale on cutting-edge models
  • Work end to end to connect ML models to human interfaces (e.g. APIs, browsers, and applications)
  • Designing and implementing large-scale data and ML pipelines through a full end-to-end product development lifecycle
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations teammates to create cutting-edge products

About you

  • Experience as a software engineer
  • Experience building and serving machine learning models
  • Familiarity with Python and related ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax, and other open-source stacks such as HuggingFace
  • Ability to reason through machine learning system tradeoffs
  • A high level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction
Extras
  • Familiarity with basic machine learning system stacks e.g. TinyML, Triton, CUDA, ROCm, Exo, MLIR, Halide, etc
  • Familiarity with DataOps, MLOps, and ML orchestration pipelines
  • Understanding of modern ML architectures and intuition for inference performance tradeoffs
  • Experience or interest in working on open-source ML products
  • Interest in building tech aligned with user privacy, computational integrity, and/or censorship resistance
  • Experience at fast-growing companies or startups

Why join us

  • Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
  • Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
  • Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
  • 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
  • Aggressive company 401k match
  • Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
  • Participate in virtual and in-person events
  • Much much more!

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About Ritual

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At the heart of Ritual lies a foundational belief that the current state of artificial intelligence is flawed, constrained by centralization and permissioned access. The team at Ritual is driven by a mission to dismantle these barriers, fostering a future where AI is an open, transparent, and permissionless resource for everyone. The company's culture is deeply rooted in the principles of decentralization, privacy, and verifiable integrity. They are not just building another tech platform; they are cultivating a new ecosystem for AI, one that is governed by its community and built on the tenets of cryptographic trust and censorship resistance. This vision is for a world where developers and creators are no longer beholden to the whims of large corporations, but are empowered to build, share, and improve AI models in an open and collaborative environment.

The team is a collective of passionate builders, researchers, and operators who bring together deep expertise in distributed systems, cryptography, and artificial intelligence, united by a long-term commitment to the crypto space. This is a culture of quiet execution and a focus on solving the hard, fundamental problems that many others shy away from. Ritual's approach is modular and chain-agnostic, designed to act as an 'AI sidecar' that can plug into any blockchain, be it Ethereum, Solana, or Cosmos. This philosophy of interoperability and seamless integration is central to their goal of becoming the universal execution layer for AI in the web3 world. They are creating a space where AI is not just a buzzword, but a verifiable, trustworthy primitive that can be integrated into any application with the same guarantees of a smart contract, ultimately unlocking the full, uninhibited potential of artificial intelligence for humanity.

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401k Match

Aggressive company 401k match.

Flexible Working

Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!

Company Events

Participate in virtual and in-person events.

Healthcare

100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare.

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