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 We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Apply tot his job