Every model we ship needs latency, memory, and accuracy numbers from real devices. Build the lab and the tools that produce those numbers.
About Desert Ant Labs
Desert Ant Labs is an on-device AI lab in Europe. We're building efficient frontier intelligence, bottom up. We make the fastest model for each task, built to run on the billions of phones, laptops, and browsers people already own. Every model is lightning fast and private, and has no per-call cost. Little brains in every product.
With our native SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript, you add a model to an app in a few lines of code. Data stays with your customer, and the feature works without a cloud provider. Every role here pushes the limits of what a phone or a laptop can do.
About the role
You work on the device lab and the benchmarks we run there. The lab is dozens of phones, tablets, and laptops connected to machines in our Amsterdam office, and the team has more devices across Europe and North America. You build the system that runs a model on every device in the lab. Anyone on the team should be able to request a benchmark with one command and get the same result a week later. Go-to-market publishes those results. The goal is numbers that show what each device can do, so we know how far to push each model.
Customers compare our models by the benchmarks we publish. A phone runs a model more slowly when the phone is warm or charging, so the lab controls for temperature, charging, and background load before a number goes public.
You also report where a model runs slowly, with a profile and a proposed fix for the model and runtime engineers. You test our models on hardware we don't support yet, including new phones and robots. You build demo apps with go-to-market and marketing that show a model running on a specific device.
What you will do
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How we work
We're a small, flat team, and we build the models, the SDKs, and the apps that use them. Detail and Subwave, our own apps, run our models in production.
Start what needs starting without waiting to be asked, and finish what you start. Take on work outside your role when a project needs you.
We ship quickly, so we cut scope until only the part users notice is left. Anyone can comment on your work or redo your draft, and we say early when work isn't ready. We read that feedback as help.
We judge the work by what shipped and what changed because of it. Nobody counts hours.
Recruiters and agencies
We hire directly. We don't reply to emails from recruiters or agencies, and we don't want their outreach about this role or any other.
Location: Amsterdam
Apply on our site: https://desertant.com/jobs/device-lab-and-benchmark-engineer/
