Chief AI Officer (IC Role)
About Us
We’re a venture studio on a mission to build category-defining AI companies from the ground up. We’re seeking a Chief AI Officer to lead AI strategy and execution across our portfolio—someone who’s equally excited to shape engineering direction and to roll up their sleeves and train models in a hands on keyboard capacity.
This is a deeply technical, individual contributor role to start—ideal for someone who thrives at the frontier of AI, prototyping and influencing the direction of multiple early-stage startups—with the potential to build and lead a team as our ventures scale.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the technical AI lead across portfolio companies, working directly with founders and engineers to architect and build AI-native products.
- Translate business and product concepts into technical AI roadmaps using first-principles thinking.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on machine learning and generative AI models across diverse use cases (e.g., vision, text, multi-modal).
- Evaluate and integrate open-source models, fine-tune foundation models, and design custom training pipelines when needed.
- Stay ahead of the curve on frontier AI advancements, sharing insights that shape company bets and technical decisions.
You Might Be a Fit If You
- Have a PhD (or left one behind) in CS, AI, or a related field with 2–8 years of industry experience.
- Have built and shipped ML systems—ideally at startups or modern tech-forward companies.
- Are deeply comfortable with modern AI tooling and infrastructure (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, LangChain, Ray, etc.).
- Have experience with both traditional ML and generative AI (e.g., LLMs, diffusion models, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning).
- Think like a founder and solve problems from first principles.
- Based on the East Coast
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