Job Description

About Us

At micro1, we work with human experts across a wide range of fields to build more reliable AI systems. Human expertise is at the center of everything we do, and we believe the best technology creates more opportunities for people to create, perform, and discover.

In the first edition of microsessions, we're inviting local musicians to perform live in outdoor areas across San Francisco on August 6–7. We'll sponsor artists to play in some of the city's most iconic public spaces, introduce their music to new audiences, and professionally capture their performances as part of a project exploring the future of music education.

We are creating this as something musicians enjoy being part of, and something San Francisco enjoys stumbling upon.

What You'll Be Doing

We're looking for 20–40 solo musicians and small groups (1–3 performers) to perform live across San Francisco on Thursday, August 6 and Friday, August 7.

Selected musicians will:

Perform a 1–2 hour live set during one of three daily time slots:
LUNCH - 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
AFTERNOON - 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
HAPPY HOUR - 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Perform at one of several high-foot-traffic locations across the city, including FiDi, the Marina, Dolores Park, Alamo Square, Pier 39, and Golden Gate Park (locations will be finalized with each musician before the event but musicians must ultimately secure their desired locations and any associated logistics)
Wear micro1 event apparel during the performance + feature basic signage explaining microsessions.
Be filmed and recorded by a small production crew for approximately 20-60 minutes during their set.

About the Recording - What It's For (and What It's Not)

Every performance will be filmed and recorded. We're upfront about this on-site and in this brief because we think a project about honoring musicians should be honest with everyone it touches. Here's exactly what the recording is used for:

Marketing: a launch film and social content celebrating the artists and the city.
Education-focused research: audio can help AI models better understand music — things like recognizing instruments and genres, learning music theory (keys, chord progressions), and understanding the cultural roots of a style, as well as potentially enhancing artist discoverability. The goal is tools that help people learn and discover music, not replace musicians or their work.

What we will never do:

Use this data to generate artificial music, ever. We don’t allow it and we don’t appreciate it. We are making a public promise to reserve this data for tools that support musicians, never extract from them.
Use it to replace or compete with musicians.
Use it for anything beyond the education and marketing purposes described above.

Musicians are compensated and every performer participates with full consent and a signed release covering the licensing described here.

Who We're Looking For

Solo musicians or groups of 1–3 people.
Available for a 1–2 hour set within one of our time slots between August 6–7 (playing on both days is welcome if you're interested).
Able to perform at a location you're already permitted or approved to play at (whether by city permit or private-property arrangement) — final locations are subject to our approval but we are not able to coordinate permits at this time.
Responsible for your own instruments/equipment; please build any related costs into your quoted rate.
Able to share a video, Instagram, or portfolio link showing a past performance.
Comfortable being filmed and recorded per the terms above.

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About Micro1

Micro1 is building the essential infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence, moving beyond the limitations of static datasets to create a dynamic ecosystem where models truly learn to think and act. At its core, the company understands that the path to frontier intelligence isn't paved with synthetic data alone; it requires the nuance, judgment, and contextual awareness that only expert human guidance can provide. By positioning itself at the intersection of human expertise and advanced reinforcement learning, Micro1 is tackling the hardest problem in AI today: teaching models not just to answer questions, but to reason through complexity and take meaningful actions in unpredictable, real-world environments.

This mission comes to life through Realm, Micro1's flagship training environment. Realm functions as a high-fidelity simulation ground where AI agents are immersed in scenarios that closely mirror the messiness of actual human workflows. Rather than relying on abstract benchmarks, Realm forces models to engage in agentic actions, multi-step decisions, digital navigation, coding, and problem-solving that require genuine comprehension. It is within these realistic sandboxes that world-class human data is generated, creating a continuous feedback loop where expert annotators observe, correct, and guide model behavior. This process does more than just fine-tune outputs; it fundamentally elevates a model's underlying reasoning architecture, ensuring that the intelligence developed in training holds up when deployed into the wild.

But training is only half the equation. Micro1 recognizes that the true test of an AI system lies in its production performance, which is where Cortex enters the picture. Cortex is a contextual evaluation platform designed to move beyond superficial accuracy metrics and provide a granular, real-time view of how agents behave in live settings. It doesn't just flag errors; it surfaces the underlying context behind failures, revealing why an agent struggled with a particular user intent or environmental variable. This insight is invaluable for engineering teams, as it transforms evaluation from a passive checkpoint into an active improvement tool. With Cortex, companies can catch degradation early, understand the nuances of edge cases, and feed those learnings directly back into Realm for retraining, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous advancement.

Ultimately, Micro1 is not merely a data lab or an evaluation tool it is a comprehensive intelligence engine that connects the entire lifecycle of model development. From the expert human feedback that sharpens raw capability, to the realistic RL environments that forge robust agentic behavior, to the contextual oversight that ensures reliability in production, Micro1 provides the integrated foundation that AI labs and enterprises desperately need. As the industry races toward truly autonomous systems, Micro1 stands as the critical bridge between laboratory breakthroughs and dependable, real-world impact, ensuring that frontier models do not just perform well on paper, but deliver genuine value in the complex, dynamic world they are meant to serve.