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University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Bonanza High School

AI and Supercomputing Talent

Mission: Build aligned and more complete AI to accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems.

Magic

Talent and Ops

Principal, majority stakeholder and primary goal-setter.

Company highlights...
Born in a log cabin in Montana
Elementary school in Minnesota
High School and college in Vegas (Yes, that Vegas!)

World travel:
Greece, France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Czech, Egypt, Mexico... does Canada count??

US Travel: 
There are a couple states I haven't visited, but we'll get there soon!

And Last but certainly #1... My Loving Family: 
Wife - Kelly
Sons - Martin and Lucas
3 dogs and 3 cats... the cats only love me when the dogs are sleeping

Fun Fact:
Still trying to make "fetch" happen.

Mallery LLP

CEO and Co-Founder

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. The company’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. I joined the team to drive improvements in engineering hiring across the org and help OpenAI add core engineering, infrastructure, and software capabilities.  Joined when the team was 170 people and helped grow to over 400.

Fun highlights:  
Sole recruiter responsible for SWE recruiting in 2022

After our Supercomputing team was unable to hire anyone in all of 2021 with multiple offers rejected, I worked with the head of the team to address a burning organizational need and added 5 hires (zero turndowns) and a new Engineering Manager to build OpenAI's next generation of compute infrastructure

Our Applied AI Engineering team was around a dozen engineers reporting to one Manager in Q2 2022.  From May 2022 to February 2023, we added 4 Engineering Managers and around 2 dozen engineers to this team.  Along the way, they launched DALL-E and ChatGPT, so that was pretty cool 🤗

Hired the founding engineering team for new Human Data initiative led by one of our co-founders  

Took over Security hiring in September 2022 and added 5 new members to the team

Was responsible for hiring all Software Engineers in 2022 for our Research Acceleration, Codegen, Alignment, Science of Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Scaling teams

15 hires in 2 months of 2023 was most on the team

Unable to make "fetch" happen 😜

OpenAI

Member of Talent Staff

At AI Foundation, our goal was to give everyone their own, personal AI.  We built technology that enabled real-time, digital humans and it was a fun, early swing at AGI. 

Ironically, it was the deep-fake detection technology designed as a safeguard to our core product that has turned out to be the most successful thing we built.  This technology and part of the team was spun out and eventually became one of the leading companies (Reality Defender) in the fight to protect users in an every increasing AI world. 

Much of the team was acqui-hired by a leading chatbot company (LivePerson).  I decided to take a larger swing at AGI and join a different, eventually well known, "chatbot" company 😉  

Fun fact: At AIF, had a simple rule... for every great person we hire, we wanted an equally great Artificially Intelligent Agent.  Some of them even did first round interviews!

AI Foundation

VP of Talent and Collaborations

Building Originate was by far my most challenging and fun professional endeavor!

I was brought in as the 12th employee by the CEO to help build and foster a unique culture and completely different type of company.  

Our aim was equal parts venture firm/startup incubator/accelerator/ and elite-level software product development engine.  Our focus was to grow a company where the best people in the world would want to come work, be builders and spin out new ventures.  

Together with the Founder/CEO, we recruited a team of 150+ FAANG quality Engineers, Designers, Product Managers and Business/Venture professionals.  The team we assembled had technical expertise in Go, React, Scala, Haskell, Node.js, DevOps, iOS, Android, machine-learning, Artificial intelligence and data science.  If Originate couldn't build it, it was probably unbuildable ;-)

Our culture of innovation, venture, and entrepreneurism included Talent-First offerings such as: 
- 50% profit sharing for everyone on the team
- A very unique 20% Time that allowed employees to work on startups, open-source projects, and charitable projects while keeping all IP for themselves.
- Open and flexible work environments for maximum productivity.

Originate

VP of Talent

I was a founding partner and day to day operations / sales manager for Lassen while also being the top biller for the office.  We performed F/T perm technical placement services for companies in Orange County and Los Angeles needing to hire the best software engineers.

Primary areas of expertise were Software and Web Development (.NET, Java, C++, PHP, Ruby on Rails). 

I hired and trained all staff - primarily entry-level college graduates who wanted a career mixing sales, technology and helping people.

{ Rob Mallery }