Summer work exp with my daughter in Lisbon 🇵🇹
Nothing beats showing her the real world of work, teaching her more about the world of #AI and how I run the company remotely.
3000 contact location updates later and she's earned her first proper paycheck.
Proud dad moment.
#ACL2025 was phenomenal! Chris and I felt so welcomed by the AI community.
Record attendance, incredible energy.
Met lots of researchers I know (plus new faces), and some clients!
Congrats to all paper acceptances and best paper winners!
This space moves so fast - always learning 🚀
My AI transcriber strips out "please" but keeps everything else 🤖
"Can you send me your CV please?" becomes "Can you send me your CV?"
As a Brit, questions now sound like demands.
Manually adding "please" back kinda defeats the point of using AI transcription, right?
Meta acquired PlayAI - and the speed is CRAZY 🚀
$21M seed in Nov 2024 → Meta acquisition. Founded in 2023.
PlayAI: multi-turn TTS, voice cloning, 30+ languages, trained on hundreds of millions of conversations
Word on the street: they hit serious revenue numbers early
#Speech #AI #Meta
Liquid death ad generated by Google's veo 3 model. Pretty good, right?
#genai #videogeneration #ai
Who is currently working on research for Evals / Alignment and wants to work with a super cool start-up in SF as Research Scientist? This start-up are revenue generating with OpenAI being a customer, favouring their Eval platform over their own. Email me :) marc@techire.ai
We're building a #3D #ComputerVision Vision team for a company developing #Agents for industrial applications. If you have experience in in Geometric Deep Learning and are in the US, drop me a note - marc@techire.ai
Fully duplex #speech RESEARCH SCIENTIST roles are available for companies hiring remotely. If you've worked on speech-to-speech and/or #TTS drop me a note - marc@techire.ai
#ACL, who's going this year?
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is being held in Vienna. Already excited after seeing all the paper acceptance posts recently.
#ACL2025 #NLProc #ACL2025NLP
Why choose specialist AI recruiters?
Market insight - they speak the technical language
Reputation focus - success depends on service
Targeted network - established relationships
Efficiency - right fit in weeks, not months
Generic=wide nets. Specialists=precision.
#AIRecruitment
Beyond comp, AI talent evaluates:
Technical challenges
Growth trajectory
Team quality
Work flexibility
Mission alignment
Top offers address these explicitly.
What factors beyond comp swayed your decision?
#AITalent #TechHiring
How companies lose top AI talent:
Lowball initial offers
Drawn-out processes
Unclear technical vision
No leadership involvement
Poor communication
When talent has 5+ options, your process previews your culture.
#AIHiring #StartupAdvice
Competition is rife. Researcher I worked with had 7 offers.
SEVEN! 🤯
For startups to win:
1️⃣ Best offer first
2️⃣ Fast, enjoyable process
3️⃣ Be transparent
4️⃣ Show they're #1 (dinners, fly them in)
Highest comp isn't always the decider.
#AIHiring
🙄 When hiring managers say "2-4 years experience"
Translation: Autonomous but not senior-level pay.
Reality: Junior to mid-level salary jump in AI is VAST. Every hiring company wants mid-level, driving up demand & comp.
Want solid mid-level? Pay for it.
#TechHiring #AITalent
March's AI model explosion 🚀
Google Gemma 3: 128K tokens, 140 languages
Meta LLaMA 4: Voice-powered
QwQ-32B: Math/coding focused
Grok 3: Advanced reasoning
Hunyuan3D 2.0: 3D generation
Roblox Cube: Text-to-3D
The multimodal AI race is heating up!
#AIModels
$40B for OpenAI, $3.5B for Anthropic - AI funding shatters records in 2025 🚀
Top raises:
OpenAI: $40B
Anthropic: $3.5B
Databricks: $10B
KoBold: $537M
Lambda: $480M
#AIFunding #VentureCapital
Perplexity launches $50M venture fund for early-stage AI startups 🚀
Following their $9B valuation, the AI search company is now backing the next generation of AI founders.
#AIFunding #VentureCapital
🚀 Hiring: 4 Applied Scientists Building safe Agentic AI where accuracy matters.
Transformers
LLM/VLM training
Applied research
Eng handles deployment
Ample compute
Up to $250k + bonus + stock
Seattle/Miami/remote options
DM me
#AIJobs #Research
Technical recruitment needs the human touch. Tools help us be more efficient, not less human.
Only 2 types of recruiters will struggle:
Those not leveraging AI
Pure CV sifters in high-volume markets
#Recruitment #AI #FutureOfWork
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"Recruiters will all be replaced by AI" 🤔
AI in recruiting - perception vs reality...
Everyone: "You must use AI to screen/reject candidates!"
What we actually use:
LLMs for workflow
AI notetakers
Smart outreach
Data agents
🧵1/2
Why test theoretical puzzles when you could assess real-world problem-solving?
How do you feel about Leetcode for roles requiring specific experience unrelated to algorithm puzzles?
#TechHiring #Engineering
🧵3/3
The reality:
- Rarely relates to actual work
- Better alternatives exist (practical tasks/research presentations)
For Senior+ roles, we advise clients against Leetcode-style interviews.
🧵2/3
Leetcode interviews for senior roles: Essential or Outdated? 🤔
Here's what we've seen over the years:
- Juniors excel (recent study/prep)
- Senior engineers push back hard
- Staff/Principal often refuse or aren't asked
🧵1/3
Remember: Questions don't show weakness - they show professionalism.
The best engineers ask questions before writing code.
What questions have saved your technical interview?
#TechInterviews #Engineering
🧵3/3
Key questions to ask:
What assumptions should I make?
- Performance requirements?
- How to handle unexpected scenarios?
- Preferred format for delivery?
This shows:
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving approach
🧵2/3
A common mistake in technical interviews?
Not asking enough questions! 🎯
Whether it's a take-home task or real-time coding challenge, too many candidates dive straight in without clarification.
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🚀 Founding ML Research Engineer | SF | $220k + 2% equity
Build platform for deploying multimodal models.
Need: Vision Transformers, model optimization, serving (vLLM/Ollama), training infra.
Create API for advanced vision models.
DM for details.
#AI #Founding #Startup
Negotiating job offers - when your preferred company isn't the highest bidder 💡
Reality: Not everyone takes the biggest offer. But if you love the company/role/team, here's a proven approach:
🧵1/3
🚀 Applied AI Researcher available
Expertise:
- Vision Language Action models
- VLM/LLM optimization
- 3D CV & Robotics (SLAM, LiDAR)
- RL & Imitation learning
- MSc Robotics
Will relocate to US/Canada
DM for intro
#AI #ComputerVision #Robotics
