Junior JS/TS Engineer - LLM Research

DN Institute, a non-profit research institute, is looking for a Junior JS/TS Software Engineer to join a research project centered around leveraging LLM-generated synthetic data for risk modeling. We are happy to hire someone with minimal experience, but willing to learn our tools. This can be a part-time or a full-time position with a flexible schedule and the possibility to assume more responsibilities, as well as to learn new technologies.

Duties
- Developing serverless JS/TS application for event-based architectures
- Implementing AI-assisted test-driven development approach
- Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Helping maintain SSGs and custom front-end widgets
- Contributing to scientific articles on natural language processing

Tools
- Cloudflare Workers ecosystem
- GitHub CI/CD
- Postgres-based time series DB
- Vector store DB

General Requirements
- Fluent English. We are an international team and most of the work is done in English.
- Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem. We can teach you our tools and advanced techniques, but we need you to have a firm grasp of the basics.
- Independence. There will be no marching orders. You are expected to organize your day, get the work done, and speak up when there's a problem.
- Willingness to learn. We can teach you everything and don't have any strict experience requirements, but you must be willing to learn new tools every day.

Evaluation, Hiring, and Onboarding process
- Candidates will be offered a small challenge to complete.
- One of our team members will evaluate all successful challenge submissions and a set up 30-minute Google Meet call with selected candidates.
- Candidates that made it to the next stage will be offered a 3-month full- or part-time research grant with specific milestones (goals) to achieve.
- On your first day, you will be assigned a number of training issues to complete during your onboarding period and a dedicated onboarding buddy who will help you close them and answer any questions along the way.
- At the end of the 3-month period, we will evaluate the results of your milestone together with you and negotiate a long-term position.

Conditions
- You'll be a part of a small team of software engineers and NLP scientists from around the world.
- We follow Hygge work culture
- You will be offered a research grant with a choice of how and when you want to get paid. We are open also to students and part-time candidates!
- We have a clear and open research process on GitHub. You'll see the result of your work with zero red tape slowing things down.
- We don't look over each other's shoulders and expect you to take the initiative, find things to do, and get them done.
- We don't discriminate based on race, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, physical abilities, or political views. We expect the same from you.

DN Institute is a resident of BlockShop incubator, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It was created to support innovative projects with their software development and infrastructure needs. Over the years, we've grown it into a diverse community that helps personal projects and startups take off and mature. It acts as an open-source foundation focusing on supporting technology that brings a positive impact on society and can benefit people beyond BlockShop. Our expertise spans across Software Development, IT Security, DevOps, AI, and Applied Linguistics. In addition to this, we pool together computational resources and help early-stage projects with project management and hiring efforts.