Agentic AI Implementation Assistant

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Job Summary

This candidate will assist research labs with implementing agentic AI workflows

Essential Job Duties

• Organize requests for AI workflows required by research labs, including agentic workflows.
• Research current implementations of these workflows and offerings from the top AI companies.
• Test these implementations side by side in a “sandbox” environment.
• Identify routine and rare errors that are consequential and select optimal models and implementations.
• Document findings.
• Assist researchers in implementing these workflows and provide feedback and support during implementation.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• High school or equivalent.
• Experience with long-context, deep-thinking AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT Pro).
• Basic coding experience.
• Ability to work in teams and ability to understand requirements of other people and then help them reach their goals, as is needed for AI implementation and validation.
• Ability to complete intense, repetitive, boring tasks (e.g. multiple rounds of repetitive validation to catch any rare but consequential mistakes made by AI).
• Ability to maintain strong and sustained attention span over several hours, while not making mistakes and simultaneously detecting mistakes made by AI.
• Ability to think quickly and precisely and then express these thoughts with high precision, as is needed for prompt construction.
• Ability to rapidly review logic and arguments in real time and detect flaws, as is needed in reviewing chain-of-thought (CoT) notes during AI “thinking”.
• Ability to communicate.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience functioning in high-pressure, high-stakes environments.
  
  

Required Documents

• Resume.
  
  

Hiring Range

$19.00 - $22.00 Per Hour

The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training.

As one of the largest employers in Pasadena, CA, Caltech is committed to providing comprehensive benefits to eligible employees and their eligible dependents. Our benefits package includes competitive compensation, health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, bereavement, etc.), tuition reimbursement, and more. Non-benefit eligible employees will have access to some benefits such as onsite counseling and sick time. Learn more about our

EEO Statement

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Caltech is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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Disability Accommodations

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