I think this risk is much lower in a world where there are lots of different model owners competing with each other, which is how it appears to be playing out.

Nomi.ai | https://nomi.ai | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Remote (Global) | Full-time | $150k–$250k + equity

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> make sense and are reliable

If you can figure out how to create benchmarks that make sense, are reliable, correlate strongly to business goals, and don't get immediately saturated or contorted once known, you are well on your way to becoming a billionaire.

If they had stayed silent since GPT-4, nobody would care what OpenAI was releasing as they would have become completely irrelevant compared to Gemini/Claude.

Nomi.ai | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Remote (Global) | Full-time | $150k–$250k + equity

At Nomi, we're building AI companions that form deeply meaningful, humanlike relationships and immersive roleplaying experiences. With over a million users growing at ~10% month-over-month, your work directly impacts millions of lives. Our users tell us we've helped them find self-worth, leave unhealthy relationships, try therapy, and even save their lives. See countless real user testimonials here: https://nomi.ai/spotlight/ and our recent news coverage here https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-...

As an ML Engineer or Senior ML Engineer, you'll lead innovation in large language model (LLM) post-training, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and agentic capabilities, directly shaping how users connect with our AI.

We offer:

    * Full autonomy to experiment and deploy cutting-edge ML techniques
    * A fully remote, async culture emphasizing results over meetings
    * International team with visa sponsorship available
    * For US employees: 401k (100% match up to 5%), fully covered health insurance, equity

    * Extensive hands on experience with things such as multinode training, rlhf, knowledge distillation, test time compute, rag
    * Up to date with SOTA in LLM post training (would love to hear what research paper you think is or would be most impactful for our roadmap!)
    * Genuine passion for our product, finds the idea of engaging with our community on Discord/Reddit to be a pro (it is a very different experience than developing enterprise software!)
    * A high internal bar for excellence and relentless drive