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Mantic

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London, United KingdomNot Disclosed

Member of Technical Staff at top-performing AI forecasting startup with major seed funding

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. Backed by a fresh, unannounced major seed round and a $4M pre-seed, this London-based startup features an elite engineering roster from DeepMind, Citadel, and Palantir. 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.

Overview

Role overview

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.

Company

Mantic

Mantic

Top-performing AI forecasting startup backed by a recent major seed round and $4M pre-seed

Responsibilities

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.

Candidate profile

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.

What makes it remarkable

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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