Summary
Charlie Snell is a research scientist and PhD student at UC Berkeley with 12 years of engineering and research experience focused on ML, NLP, and reinforcement learning. He has contributed to academic and industrial research at BAIR, ML@B, and Google DeepMind, and now applies that expertise at Cursor on cutting-edge ML problems. Comfortable moving between code and theory, Charlie has tackled interpretability of attention in NLP and production-scale systems at Amazon S3 and Zelis, blending rigorous experimentation with practical engineering. Known for enjoying hard, creative problems, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to real-world ML deployments and a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley