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TauLab – Founding AI Product Engineer

Product Engineer · TauLab · Mar 2023 - Feb 2024

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Overview

Founding AI product engineer at a Silicon Valley startup, leading research and development of multi-agent gaming AI systems and LLM/diffusion-based products.

Key Technologies

PythonLLMDiffusion ModelsMulti-Agent SystemsCloud FunctionsNext.js

Story & Process

Overview

TauLab is an AI startup based in Silicon Valley. I joined from day zero as a Founding AI Product Engineer, working closely with two former Google employees to explore how large language models and diffusion models can be applied to gaming and interactive experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Worked with the product lead to research market and enterprise customer needs around LLMs and diffusion models.
  • Led the R&D team to design and build AI products, from early experiments to deployable prototypes.
  • Collaborated with researchers at universities and tech companies, sharing experimental results and datasets.
  • Developed multi-agent systems, affective/emotional agents, and reusable agent frameworks for game and interactive use cases.
  • Worked directly with gaming clients to explore and guide applications of AI agents inside games.

Impact

At TauLab, we created and iterated on multiple AI concepts for gaming and interactive media, laying the groundwork for production projects and informing later work at Cybever in AI + 3D assets.