Investigations Engineer - Toronto

GPTZero
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 140,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Storytelling with data","Entrepreneurial mindset","Stakeholder collaboration","Evidence verification","News judgment"]

Build and run GPTZero’s research engine that powers investigations into AI-generated content and “AI slop.” You’ll develop scalable web pipelines (search, targeted crawling, and data processing), use AI detection and hallucination detection models, and create machine learning ranking/classification systems. Synthesize findings into compelling prose, visualizations, and interactive experiences, working alongside an ML and R&D team to improve models on new domains and lead investigations.

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GPTZero
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Investigations Engineer - Toronto

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Job Summary

Build and run GPTZero’s research engine that powers investigations into AI-generated content and “AI slop.” You’ll develop scalable web pipelines (search, targeted crawling, and data processing), use AI detection and hallucination detection models, and create machine learning ranking/classification systems. Synthesize findings into compelling prose, visualizations, and interactive experiences, working alongside an ML and R&D team to improve models on new domains and lead investigations.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Use AI detection and hallucination detection models to find compelling examples of AI slop.
  • •Build search query generators, targeted crawlers, and robust web-scale data pipelines.
  • •Develop machine learning ranking and classification systems to detect fabrications using LLMs.
  • •Synthesize data into well-written prose, visualizations, and interactive experiences.
  • •Create automations to monitor social feeds and generate leads, and improve models on new domains.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 140,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years of Python for resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs.
  • •1+ years of SQL for data management, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • •Experience analyzing results and building plots/visualizations to communicate findings.
  • •Experience with web scraping and search at scale, including search, LLM, OCR, and data crawling tools.
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and building evidence-driven investigations using OSINT.
Experience:2+ yearsMachine learningAI detectionWeb scrapingOSINTInvestigative journalism
Skills:Storytelling with dataEntrepreneurial mindsetStakeholder collaborationEvidence verificationNews judgment
Tech Stack:PythonSQLPostgreSQLAWSLLMOCRWeb scrapingSearchData crawlingContainer toolingInfrastructure-as-codeInteractive user experiences

Company Brief

GPTZero
Develops AI-content detection and provenance tools that identify whether text was generated by large language models and provide writing-process evidence for educators, publishers, and organizations to support responsible AI adoption.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2023
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