Job Description

About Phase

Phase builds infrastructure at the intersection of blockchain and AI. We're developing systems where AI agents have genuine economic stakes. Our work spans Solana program development, LLM fine-tuning, and novel agent architectures.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior ML Engineer to join our team part-time. You'll work on novel problems in AI agent motivation, behavioral training, and economic incentive design. This role combines deep ML expertise with systems thinking: building agents that respond to externalized state rather than hardcoded objectives.

What You'll Do

Agent Behavior & Training

  • Fine-tune LLMs to respond to externalized motivational state (on-chain token balances) rather than prompted objectives
  • Design training pipelines where model weights encode policy (how to respond to state) rather than motivation (what to want)
  • Build agents that exhibit emergent behaviors based on their unique r...

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