Investigations Engineer - NYC

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 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.
• 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+ years of experience in Python for developing resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs.
• 1+ year of experience 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, such as AWS.
• Entrepreneurial spirit in bootstrapping different approaches to data acquisition, speaking with stakeholders, and identifying newsworthy content.

Bonus:

• Ability to build 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:

You will be working directly with the CTO, AI research lead, and CEO, along with an experienced, diverse, and driven group of individuals. Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing and on humanity.