Chief AI Officer (IC Role)

About the 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.

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.
• 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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