<div dir="ltr">Cogitai, Inc., a new AI-based startup focusing on continual learning, is<br>seeking highly skilled and motivated individuals for immediate hire.<br><br><br>About Cogitai<br>=============<br>Cogitai, Inc. is dedicated to building artificial intelligences (AIs)<br>that learn continually from interactive experience with the real world.<br>Our goal is to build the brains, i.e., the continual-learning AI<br>software, that will let everyday things that sense and act get smarter,<br>more skilled, and more knowledgeable over time with experience. This<br>experience will be shared across things and across domains to allow the<br>rapid scaling-up of experience-based learning. In short, we aim to<br>become the world leader in continual learning.<br><br><br>Positions<br>=========<br>We seek ambitious and dedicated individuals at all levels of experience,<br>ranging from Bachelors to post-Ph.D. The ideal candidate will<br><br> 1) have extensive AI expertise, especially in reinforcement<br> learning, vision, and/or robotics;<br><br> 2) have strong system-building skills; and<br><br> 3) be passionate about helping us make continual learning practical in<br> a broad range of applications.<br><br>For candidates at the Ph.D. level, 1) is more important. For candidates<br>at the Bachelors and Masters level, 2) is more important. 3) is<br>essential for everyone!<br><br>Our most active searches at the moment are for:<br><br>Software Engineer - AI<br>and<br>Software Engineer - Platform<br><br>For details, see: <a href="http://www.cogitai.com/hiring/">http://www.cogitai.com/hiring/</a><br><br><br>Our Team<br>========<br>Our team consists of many of the leading minds in reinforcement<br>learning (RL), which is one of the core component technologies of<br>continual learning. The three founders have a combined total of over<br>60 years of active research and development in AI, and many of our<br>full-time employees have extensive hands-on research experience in<br>RL. We also have assembled a "Brain Trust" of ten of the world's best<br>academics in this area, who will be actively engaged in technology<br>development for the company.<br><br>Founders: Mark Ring, Peter Stone, and Satinder Singh<br><br>VP of Engineering: Peter Wurman (co-founder of Kiva Systems)<br><br>Brain Trust: Andy Barto, Michael Bowling, Peter Dayan, Charles Isbell,<br>Michael Littman, David Parkes, Doina Precup, Ben Van Roy, Richard<br>Sutton, Jianwei Zhang<br><br><br>Timeline<br>========<br>Thanks to a substantial strategic investment from Sony (see<br><a href="http://www.cogitai.com">www.cogitai.com</a> for details), as well as various other sources of<br>funding, Cogitai is prepared to hire qualified individuals for immediate<br>start. Individuals who prefer to start later (but still within the next<br>several months), are also encouraged to apply.<br><br><br>Location and Working Hours<br>==========================<br>We are a fully distributed company, so location is flexible. Employees<br>are expected to be generally available at least during the core hours of<br>8am-2pm PT / 11am-5pm ET on weekdays.<br><br><br>Contact<br>=======<br>Webpage: <a href="http://www.cogitai.com/">http://www.cogitai.com/</a><br>If interested, contact us at <a href="mailto:hiring@cogitai.com">hiring@cogitai.com</a><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p>-----<br>Peter Stone<br>President and COO<br>Cogitai, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.cogitai.com" target="_blank">www.cogitai.com</a></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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