
Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training at Ghost (San Francisco, CA)
Ghost· San Francisco, CA·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
About Ghost
Ghost is a personal AI hardware company. To realize the full benefit of what models will do for people, we believe an entirely new platform will be built around AI. Some devices will let your AI understand what is happening around you, others will enable you to get things done without navigating apps or menus. As these systems become more capable and more personal, it matters who owns them. We’re building a future where that intelligence belongs to you, with an ecosystem of devices and software that gives you greater control over your time, attention, and the things you want to accomplish.
What you'll do
- Post-train open models to power personal agents that run locally on Core.
- Improve tool use, reasoning, and reliable execution across complex, multi-step tasks.
- Build training datasets and feedback pipelines grounded in realistic agent workflows.
- Develop supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning methods that translate model capability into useful product behavior.
- Build evaluations that measure task completion, personalization, and when agents should act or ask for guidance.
- Work closely with the agent and inference teams to improve quality within on-device memory, compute, and latency constraints.
Who you are
- Experience post-training language models through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or preference optimization.
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills, with experience building and debugging training pipelines.
- Experience creating datasets and evaluations that produce measurable improvements in model behavior.
- Familiarity with tool-using agents, multi-step environments, and the challenges of training against task outcomes.
- Strong experimental judgment: you can diagnose failures, test hypotheses, and distinguish benchmark gains from meaningful product improvements.
- Ability to work on-site in San Francisco.
Why work at Ghost
- Culture: “Aggressively young, talented team” that values endurance and deep technical work. Team members have turned down millions in cash/equity from top firms to build real products.
- Work Environment: San Francisco-based; likely in-office given the hardware focus. Job posting for founding engineer is in SF.
- Perks & Engineering: Well-funded seed stage with competitive salary ($130k–$220k for founding engineer). Engineers are expected to use AI agents to write >90% of their code. Opportunity to define a new computing primitive from the ground up.