👋🏼 Hello! We're ALMA

Backed by leading VCs such as Village Global, Conviction, & NFX, Alma is a LegalTech startup on a mission to transform the immigration industry. By combining the expertise of seasoned attorneys with AI/ML, we streamline the complex immigration process for individuals and businesses. Our comprehensive platform and dedicated legal team provide clients with a seamless experience, empowering them to navigate the intricate world of immigration with confidence.

🚀 Why You Should Join ALMA

You will have the opportunity to work alongside mission-driven founders who not only want to build transformative solutions for lawyers but also deeply understand what problems need to be solved. From day 1 you will be solving challenging & interesting problems and working with cutting-edge AI research and technology. You will be working with our CTO, a seasoned tech visionary with years of leadership experience at Uber and other established startups, where you'll have the chance to greatly expand your knowledge and skills under his expert mentorship.

✅ Responsibilities

• Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build and ship an LLM-powered product across the full stack.
• Design & implement LLM-powered products, such as prompting, agents, experimentation, LLM Ops, measuring quality & performance.
• Evaluate and productize various types of LLMs for our product use cases, including fine-tuning as needed.
• Research and stay current with the latest news, tooling, and techniques in NLP such as advanced prompting & chaining, function calling, embeddings, evaluations, etc.
• Own your work end-to-end and integrate the research into our product

🛠 Role Requirements

• 2-3 years of professional experience in AI/ML with a proven track record.
• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Experience building and shipping applications built on top of LLMs into production and evaluating & improving performance over time after deployment.
• Experience with LLM Ops & tooling (e.g. vector databases, prompt ops).
• Well-developed sense through experience of what works and doesn’t work when building applications on top of LLMs.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related fields.

🧠 Founding Team

The founding team has an extensive background in the legal industry, consulting, and building ML platforms. Shuo built the ML Platform (Michelangelo) at Uber for 5 years after which he was the head of AI & ML team at a SupportLogic (a series B startup using predictive & generative AI for customer support). Aizada is a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney with 7 years of experience including working at a top law firm such as Cooley and an ex-McKinsey consultant. Assel is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has 7 years of experience building products at FinTechs such as SoFi and Step and at large financial institutions when working at Ernst & Young.