Junior Conversational AI Design, Intern

Are you interested in defining how Generative AI will shape the future of work?

We are a Silicon Valley Series D startup, spun out of the Stanford AI lab and are co-founded by Sebastian Thrun, co-founder and CEO of Google-X, Waymo, Udacity, Kitty Hawk, and more. Cresta launched in 2020. Since then, we've grown revenue and our team by 300% and became officially a Unicorn. We've assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, top-tier investors, and advisors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Porsche, Holiday Inn, and Dropbox and we have been recognized as a startup to watch by Business Insider, Forbes, and Gartner to name a few.

Cresta is on a mission to make every knowledge worker 100x as effective, 10x faster, and 10x better. We apply AI to improve Call Center operations using our patented real-time coaching platform. We provide dynamic, live guidance to every agent based on the best practices of the top performers.

About Your Role

As part of Cresta's Conversation Design team, you will assist in designing high quality AI conversation models that offer real-time coaching and assistance for our customers' contact center agents, and designing conversational experiences for virtual agents for both voice and chat. The role is highly collaborative and will require that you work closely with cross-functional team members from Machine Learning, Data Science, Program Management, Customer Success, Product Leadership, and Engineering. You may also work directly with customers to get alignment on our overall solution design and to enable customers to build their own models using Cresta Opera, our proprietary self-service tool.

Responsibilities

• Assist with all stages of our AI Delivery projects - designing, building, deploying, and tuning AI solutions for multiple customers.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to design and build solutions that help customers achieve their business objectives using Cresta's AI product suite.
• Assist in designing solutions for contact centers in sales, retention, collections, and customer service across a range of verticals, from financial services to telecommunications and everything in between.
• Define labeling guidelines to be used to train conversational AI models, and assist with labeling as needed.
• Lead model maintenance efforts to ensure that Cresta's AI models continue to meet our quality standards.
• Design and develop virtual agent solutions using Google's Dialogflow CX.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment with the opportunity to learn and develop a wide range of skills.
• General knowledge of Conversational AI and natural language processing models.
• Background in Linguistics preferred.
• Experience working with Python is a plus.
• Experience working with Dialogflow CX or another bot design platform is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

• $30-$50 per hour subject to taxes.
• Lunch can be expensed (up to $25) while working in the office.