You will join a world-class technical team to solve judgmental forecasting using LLM agents. By building deep research agents and experimenting with probability distribution tools, you will improve decision-making in geopolitics and economics. This role involves rapid experimentation cycles and pushing the frontier of AI accuracy alongside veterans from DeepMind and Citadel.
Member of Technical Staff at Mantic
Join the team behind the world’s most accurate AI forecasting system, recently ranked 4th out of 500+ competitors in the Metaculus Cup and recognized by Polymarket as a market leader. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will build sophisticated LLM agents to solve judgmental forecasting in geopolitics and economics, pushing the frontier of machine reasoning alongside world-class researchers. If you are a high-achieving coder with a passion for statistics and LLM scaffolding, this is a unique chance to solve one of AI's most exciting problems.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Mantic
We are an AI startup, aiming to solve judgmental forecasting, i.e. predicting events in the world where statistical models are inadequate.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and implement LLM agent scaffolding to improve forecasting accuracy across geopolitics, business, and technology sectors.
- Develop new benchmarks and tools that allow LLMs to express complex probability distributions and conduct deep autonomous research.
- Conduct short, high-impact experiments to analyze prediction failures and iterate on the system's reasoning capabilities within one-week project cycles.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses a strong work ethic and exceptional coding ability with a proven track record of delivering high-quality research or technical projects.
- Demonstrates comfort with statistics and probability, ideally with experience in quant finance, AI labs, or advanced academic research on LLMs.
- Shows evidence of exceptional achievement in any domain and is eager to work in-person 5 days per week in a high-intensity London office.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Work with an elite technical team from Google DeepMind, Citadel, Palantir, and Oxford VGG, tackling one of the most intellectually challenging problems in AI.
- Join a project recognized by Polymarket as the best-performing AI forecasting system, recently placing 4th out of 500+ participants in the prestigious Metaculus Cup.
- Impact a mission-driven product featured in The Atlantic and The Guardian that aims to radically improve global decision-making through superior predictive reasoning.
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