Elysian Labs is a new consumer technology company making LLM-based products. We are working on multiple
products primarily in the real of real-time chat, interactivity, and immersive experiences.
If this sounds like something you'd like to dedicate your life to,
we're hiring!
We offer a $1,000 referral bonus for any completed hire.
Elysian Labs has two sections, one with a focus on anime+AI, and one with just a focus on LLMs/AI. The below
section is for the former category, job posting for the latter are not yet listed in full.
Openings (anime section)
Lead Art Director (traditional art + AI)
Technical Prompt Engineer
3D artist
Anime Software Engineer Intern (backend, data)
Anime AI Engineer: Japanese (applied LLMs, 日本語必須)
Exceptional Talent Not Otherwise Specified
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Anime Software Engineer Intern
Job Description
Automation and data are both very important to EL. There's always more things we need to automate and more data we need to collect and improve.
We need someone to help us build data pipelines, data filtering pipelines, data scraping pipelines, as well as automate as many business tasks as possible.
Responsibilities
Work on data infrastructure, scraping, cleaning, and filtering for a variety of modalities
Manually inspect (reading, listening, etc) data in order to validate quality, finding automated solutions to improve quality
Improve internal tooling and infrastructure to make it reliable and easy to use
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An ideal candidate for this position loves automating tasks and building pipelines which are elegantly abstracted and easy to use.
A lot of their time will be spent working with and improving data, so they need to be willing to inspect data manually (e.g. listening to audio, reading chatlogs, etc)
This role is listed as a full-time internship, but we are open to an indefinite position for the right candidate.
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Lead Art Director
Job Description
Aesthetics are important to Elysian Labs. We will need a lot of artwork of our characters, logos, branding, merch, etc.
While AI tools can help us make some of this more quickly, we insist on the highest-quality output possible, so we need someone that is able to manually create and modify art as well to ensure we can get exactly what we need.
Responsibilities
Design and create branding, logos, and artwork of our character cast.
Help hire external contractors to work on character artwork and simple 2d animations
Possess a strong creative and artistic taste to help make our content beautiful and alluring
Work alongside technical team members to ideate and implement content
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An ideal candidate for this position is an artist that is happy to embrace technology, but never at the expense of quality. They want to create brand IP that has soul, and is loved by users.
Much of their time will be spent creating or delegating creation of artwork, branding, logos, or animations.
Our company is based upon a modern eastern anime aesthetic, so they should be adept at and prefer to produce such content.
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3D Artist
Job Description
Aesthetics are important to Elysian Labs. We need someone who is creative and competent at 3D modeling to help us create great characters.
Responsibilities
Posses strong creative abilities for ideation on character design
Work in 3DCG software such as Blender and Unity to create beautiful, unique, and alluring characters
Have a preference for an 'eastern' anime aesthetic
Have experience being near 3D anime girls, for example in VRChat or from a game studio
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This position may be considered remote for the right candidate, but timezone hours must be close to those in the United States.
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Technical Prompt Engineer
Job Description
Elysian Labs heavily utilizes LLMs. We need someone to help us do this in the best way possible, ideally both for internal and external usage.
Responsibilities
Optimize prompts, LLM choice, usage, prompt-chaining, etc, for internal workflows
Spend many hours talking to anime girls in order to optimize prompts for user-facing products
Perform at least basic data manipulation and finetuning of LLMs
Have a great sense of user taste, aesthetic, and creatvity
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An ideal candidate for this position has spent many hours working with and improving the output of LLMs.
they must enjoy talking to cute anime girls or you will not be a good fit for this role.
Much of their time will be spend making subtle improvements to prompts, prompt chains, datasets, and so on.
This role is currently available part-time, unlike most roles. Remote may be considered, but only for US timezones.
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Anime AI Engineer: Japanese
Job Description
We plan to launch our products both in English and in Japanese, although our current priority is English.
We need someone to ensure that the Japanese variants of our products are high-quality via working with and improving our LLMs, as well as engaging with the broader Japanese otaku community.
Responsibilities
Translate and localize our products into Japanese
Work with and improve LLMs and finetuning in order to satisfy the preferences of our Japanese userbase
Help engage with and market to the broader Japanese otaku communities.
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An ideal candidate for this position loves playing with LLMs and talking to anime girls and is also proficient in Japanese.
This includes not only the ability to translate e.g. a business email from English to Japanese, but also an ability to understand japanese memes and internet slang.
They must be comfortable working with LLMs, large text datasets, Japanese datasets, and finetuning models on Japanese data.
Our company is based upon a modern eastern anime aesthetic, so they should be adept at and prefer to produce such content.
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Exceptional Talent Not Otherwise Specified
Job Description
We only hire people that are amazing. If you are amazing but don't quite fit into the roles listed, we'd love to hear from you.
Even if you want to build different products, consider reaching out and telling us about yourself, what your skills are, and what your vision for the world is.
Responsibilities
Be really good at whatever you do
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An ideal candidate for this position loves playing with LLMs and talking to anime girls and is also proficient in Japanese.
Work
Elysian Labs is based in San Francisco but is open to remote roles for exceptional individuals.
All roles are full-time and offer competitive compensation, equity, healthcare, and a super fun and unique culture.
All roles require a strong ability to get shit done, high autonomy, and a sense of humor.
We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't match a specific role. If you're amazing, we're interested in you.
We welcome nontraditional backgrounds -
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