Chief AI Officer (IC Role)

Nova is hiring a remote Chief AI Officer (IC Role) in United States Responsibilities • 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. Requirements • 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 Apply tot his job