Investigations Engineer – NYC Gptzero

Skills / Requirements

• AI Detection
• AWS
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Data Analysis
• Data Pipelines
• Data Processing Pipelines
• Data Visualization
• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Evidence Verification
• Hallucination Detection
• Interactive User Experiences
• LLMs
• Machine Learning
• OSINT
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Search Engine Query
• SQL
• Vibe Coding
• Web Crawling
• Web Scraping

Why Apply

This role is ideal for those adept at using AI detection models and building data pipelines to identify AI-generated content. You'll employ machine learning techniques and AI tools to analyze and report on AI slop.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll develop and run research engines to uncover AI-generated content, synthesize data into engaging reports, and create visualizations. Your work will involve building search query generators, monitoring social media, and improving detection models.

Pay and Career Growth

Compensation is competitive, with opportunities to work alongside a team from top tech and research institutions. The role offers a chance to influence the future of AI content detection and build a career in a high-impact area.

Benefits and Perks

• Career Growth
• competitive salary
• Equity
• Impactful work

Is This Role Right for You?

Original Job Description

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute.
 
What we’re looking for
Ready to work at the intersection of investigative journalism and AI? We’re looking for software engineers to help us find and publish groundbreaking, front-page investigations on the rise and threat of AI slop. You’ll work on building and running the research engine that we used to find undisclosed hallucinations and AI-generated content on the web. Our work so far has produced widely covered reports examining published output from the world’s top consulting firms, and academic publishing venues, earning front-page coverage in the Financial Times, Forbes, The Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Times of India, and other notable media. The ideal candidate is adept at building pipelines for processing web-scale content, skilled at creating polished reports and visuals, and has a strong instinct for recognizing newsworthy findings.

What you’ll contribute

Use our AI detection and hallucination detection models to find compelling examples of AI slop on the internet and in publishing

Synthesize data into well-written prose, compelling visualizations and interactive user experiences (vibecoding permitted)

Build search engine query generators and targeted crawlers for document collection on the web.

Build automations to monitor social feeds and generate leads

Craft machine learning ranking and classification systems to detect documents that have fabrications using LLMs.

Create data processing pipelines that can operate robustly at scale

Help improve our models based on how they perform on new domains and investigations we pursue

Qualifications

Ability to tell creative and compelling stories using data

2+ YOE in Python for developing resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs.

1+ YOE in SQL for data management, ideally PostgreSQL

Data analysis and visualization to analyze results and create plots that communicate findings to stakeholders.

Experience with web scraping and search at scale, including search, LLM, OCR, and data crawling tools

Experience with basic cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)

Entrepreneurial spirit in being able to bootstrap different approaches of data acquisition, speaking with stakeholders and identifying newsworthy content.

Bonus

Ability to build / vibecode webpages to display results

Applied ML for ranking and calibration.

Infrastructure-as-code and container tooling experience.

OSINT and evidence verification experience.

Ability to find data when others cannot

Experience working with media and journalists.

Who you’ll be joining
Our Team
You will be working directly with

Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, won Best ML Hack at Stanford’s 2019 and 2021 Hackathons

George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research.

Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.
Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.
Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity
 
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At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision – humans are.