Part-time collaborators for one release. Everyone is paid; nobody is full-time.
I’m Leo, a student in Brisbane developing a local-first AI research project.
At Tachyon Lab we're not looking for 40hr/week employees, but collaborators on a research project. The goal is to cut training and inference costs, build our own evaluation, and get more capability out of the hardware we already have — without the billion-dollar budget.
The first sprint is paid from the pre-seed allocation we’re raising for mid-Nov. Pay is hourly, at or just under the listed ceiling, for every hour you work — including hours worked before the money lands. Plus credit and authorship. Nobody is full-time, including me. Shares exist after incorporation; they're for people who stay, not a substitute for pay.
We are looking for: (in AU$)
Experience required in or across Eval / Benchmark design, RAG, adapter, personalisation, attention mechanisms.
eval-bench frameworks · RAG · adapters · attention mechanisms · personalisation stateImproving efficiency and results from pre- and post-training RL.
efficient training · RLPast human-written GitHub contributions to agentic harnesses. Familiarity with AI-assisted tools and programming expected.
software · AI systems · data processingExperience with After Effects or equivalent. Can design anything from UI all the way to launch videos with advanced motion graphics.
After Effects · Figma · IllustratorDM me on LinkedIn or Email apply@tachyonlab.au, and send me genuinely anything you’ve built. No CV required, ask me if you have any questions!
I’ll ask you to sign an NDA before I can show you how it works.