Chief AI Officer (IC Role)

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.

- 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.

- 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