At Factored, we believe talent thrives where community, opportunity, and support come together. This month, we’re celebrating the stories that define who we are, starting with the incredible women shaping the future of AI and data. From breaking barriers to mentoring the next generation, women at Factored are redefining what it means to lead, innovate, and grow in the tech industry. Their resilience, brilliance, and impact drive our highest-caliber teams forward every day. Read our new blog: “Women in Tech at Factored: Strength, Excellence, and Transformation”, and discover the journeys, voices, and lessons behind our community.
GROW BY NUMBERS Factored x NASA Harvest x MLCommons x Arizona State University Factored is proud to join MLCommons in the Grow by Numbers Challenge, a global effort to tackle real-world agricultural and climate challenges through smarter geospatial AI. Together with MLCommons, our Machine Learning Center of Excellence powers the infrastructure and benchmarking that enable this challenge to run at scale and with scientific rigor. This is a high-impact, high-caliber opportunity to shape how machine learning models are trained for local precision using global data.
🚀 Factored at NeurIPS 2024: Shaping the Future of Safe Generative AI 🚀 Factored presented groundbreaking research on Lexically-Constrained Automated Prompt Augmentation at the Safe Generative AI Workshop during NeurIPS 2024. This prestigious event, featuring experts like Yoshua Bengio, focused on tackling challenges in generative AI safety. Discover how Factored's innovations are advancing ethical AI practices. Read the full article here
Factored at the Forefront of Inclusive AI We’re thrilled to share that Factored’s contributions to the PRISM Alignment Project have received global recognition! Our work earned an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2024, placing us in the top 0.60% of submissions out of 1,820—and we were further honored with the Best Paper Award for the Datasets & Benchmarks Track. Factored played a pivotal role in developing the real-time conversation interface and deploying over 20 Large Language Models to support this groundbreaking project. The PRISM dataset has already become a key resource for researchers worldwide, downloaded over 10,000 times, and is reshaping how AI aligns with diverse global perspectives. This recognition highlights Factored’s unwavering commitment to advancing equitable, ethical, and impactful AI solutions. Curious about the full story? Read the article below
We're a community of builders At Factored, we foster a culture of collaboration and shared success. Our remote-first approach connects top talent from diverse countries, ensuring flexibility and access to a community of incredible engineers. As data and AI experts, we solve complex challenges with cutting-edge technologies to deliver business results, stay ahead, and adapt to industry shifts. We invest in our team’s growth through courses, certifications, and ongoing learning, while providing international exposure and multicultural experiences.
The industry's most effective community of engineers Factored was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, California, by Israel Niezen and a team of experienced engineers, educators, and AI researchers. With our co-founding advisor, Dr. Andrew Ng, we set out to address the significant shortage of qualified AI, machine learning, and data engineers.
We Build Teams Helping U.S. companies accelerate their roadmaps by building and scaling the highest-caliber data science, machine-learning, data engineering, and data analytics teams quickly and efficiently. “Factored has been playing a leading role in finding great technical talent, and connecting them with the businesses that are building these valuable and exciting AI projects.” Andrew Ng Co-Founding Advisor
