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Bearing AI - FrontEnd Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community.
About Bearing AI:
Bearing is at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping industry. This is a trillion dollar industry that moves 90% of the goods we interact with on a daily basis, but has traditionally lagged far behind other industries in adopting new technologies. At Bearing, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-driven platform that helps shipping companies dramatically streamline their operations and tackle their single biggest pain point. We’ve already built our first product and have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners. Our team is made up of highly experienced AI engineers and tech industry veterans and we’re backed by the AI Fund and shipping industry investors.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Front-End Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of our WebApp and will collaborate closely with our designer and back-end engineering team. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Transform UI/UX wireframes into a full-featured WebApp: You will lead the development of our new WebApp, making it easier for our customers to access our core product. This will require close collaboration with both the engineering and product teams.
Own the front-end stack and lead front-end architecture efforts: As the lead Front-End Engineer you’ll be responsible for defining and owning the front-end development experience. You will also need to architect efficient and reusable front-end modules and systems that support scale.
Ensure a high quality user experience through high quality code: The WebApp will be the main customer touch point for our product. As a result, it will not only need to be intuitive it will also need to be reliable and secure. You will be responsible for ensuring that WebApp meets our SLAs and fails gracefully if there are any back-end issues.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
• 3+ years professional experience shipping front-end code
• Strong computer science foundations
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/jQueryExperience with ReactJS or Angular
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and working with JSON
• Understanding of key UI/UX principles
• Proficiency with version control systems, such as Git
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
• Excellent English language skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
• Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to Haves:
• Graphic design skills
• Experience with Machine Learning products
• Experience working on logistics or shipping-related products
• Experience with Agile development
What We Have to Offer:
• Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
• A week off between Christmas and New Year’s
• Medical Insurance coverage through SURA for you and family members.
• Monthly education budget
• Commuter benefits
• Collegial atmosphere
• Direct and transparent communication style
• Innovative environment
• Work with global AI Leaders
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Bearing AI - Machine Learning Engineer Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About Bearing AI:
Bearing is at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping industry. This is a trillion dollar industry that moves 90% of the goods we interact with on a daily basis, but has traditionally lagged far behind other industries in adopting new technologies. At Bearing, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-driven platform that helps shipping companies dramatically streamline their operations and tackle their single biggest pain point. We’ve already built our first product and have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners. Our team is made up of highly experienced AI engineers and tech industry veterans and we’re backed by the AI Fund and shipping industry investors.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Machine Learning Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of scalable Machine Learning systems — from data pipelines, to training, to analyzing performance in a production environment. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Design and train new production-ready machine learning models. You will lead the development of new machine learning models focused on converting a wide variety of data sets (e.g., ship sensors, weather, market rates) into actionable insights. You will apply fundamental machine learning concepts to quickly iterate and debug model related issues and develop new techniques to handle unique cases with each customer.
Collect, process and analyze data. A big part of our machine learning projects is understanding and analyzing the data. You must build pipelines and processes for cleaning and organizing data as well as build tools to help analyze data. You must also understand what types of data models are struggling with and use this analysis to propose solutions.
Analyze and improve existing models. You will also be responsible for analyzing performance of our existing models and work to improve their accuracy by applying the latest published research, feature engineering and tuning of hyperparameters.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
3+ years professional experience designing, training and deploying machine learning models
Strong computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms and design patterns
Expertise in Python demonstrated by implementing multiple medium to large scale projects
Proven ability to implement and debug machine learning models
Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Industry experience with relational databases and SQL-based tools
BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to Haves:
Experience with big data pipeline technologies such as MapReduce, Spark, Kafka
Research experience in machine learning or artificial intelligence related field
Contributions to open source ML projects
Experience working on logistics or shipping-related products
Experience with Agile development
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Bearing AI - Senior Full Stack Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community.
About Bearing AI:
Bearing is at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping industry. This is a trillion dollar industry that moves 90% of the goods we interact with on a daily basis, but has traditionally lagged far behind other industries in adopting new technologies. At Bearing, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-driven platform that helps shipping companies dramatically streamline their operations and tackle their single biggest pain point. We’ve already built our first product and have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners. Our team is made up of highly experienced AI engineers and tech industry veterans and we’re backed by the AI Fund and shipping industry investors.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Full-Stack Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for building out our API to support our new WebApp as well as helping us develop new AI-driven products. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Lead the development of a RESTful API to support our new WebApp: Collaborating closely with the rest of our engineering team, you will architect and build out a scalable, reliable back-end for our new WebApp.
Architect and implement new features from scratch: Partnering with our Machine Learning engineers, you will lead the end-to-end development of new AI-driven products.
Improve code across the entire stack: You will identify bugs and performance issues across the stack and work to improve those. You will also build performance monitoring and testing tools to ensure our product quality stays high.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
• 5+ years professional experience shipping production-ready code
• Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks, databases
• Expertise in Python
• Experience in setting up data pipelines and databases
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience developing RESTful APIs
• Basic understanding of Machine Learning models
• Expertise with version control systems, such as Git
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux systems
• Experience with Amazon AWS and containerization technologies
• Excellent English language skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
• Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to Haves:
• Experience shipping Machine Learning products
• Experience working on logistics or shipping-related products
• Experience with Agile development
What We Have to Offer:
• Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
• A week off between Christmas and New Year’s
• Medical Insurance coverage through SURA for you and family members.
• Monthly education budget
• Commuter benefits
• Collegial atmosphere
• Direct and transparent communication style
• Innovative environment
• Work with global AI Leaders
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Ethical/Explainable AI Founder in Residence Palo Alto, CA
Our mission is to enable trustworthy and robust AI development and deployment. We will audit and monitor AI systems in order to instill confidence around AI in the public sector, the private sector, and the general public. As a result, we provide an independent, third-party stamp of approval certifying an AI system with respect to a specific use case, either involving efficacy or bias. In doing so, we are creating the standard for certain use cases as well as the broader playbook for AI regulation. This stamp of approval enables adoption and improvement of AI systems without fear of penalties from regulators or negative press. If companies have taken the right steps with us and placed the right governance infrastructure in place, they can scale their AI technology with confidence.
What You Will Be Doing
- Define the beachhead of the project to achieve the long term vision of creating a standard to enable trustworthy and robust AI development and deployment
- Operationalize and execute on our partnership with a large tech company (and develop additional partnerships based on our leads in highly regulated industries) by co-creating the standard for AI regulation and the playbook for proactive, responsible AI regulation that can be presented to regulatory bodies.
- Drive relationships with regulatory bodies and regulated industries to further refine the idea, develop partnerships, sign POC contracts, and cultivate potential customers.
- Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers, operators, and sector experts within [12] months while maintaining a culture in line with AI Fund values.
- You will also work with the team to:
- Identify, prioritize, and design an MVP of an AI governance product that will be delivered along with the audit service.
What You Must Bring
- Must Haves:
- Experience selling high-value technology projects into enterprise or government customers or conducting business development around high-level strategic partnerships.
- A sense of authority and strong public speaking skills - you should be able to envision yourself testifying in front of congress about the need for responsible AI regulation.
- A high-level understanding of AI architecture and infrastructure.
- Previous team management experience.
- Experience in setting and refining strategic direction.
- Strong context-switching ability, meaning you are just as comfortable working with leading AI experts as you are with high-ranking government officials without tech expertise.
- Previous startup experience or experience working with a small, scrappy team
- Nice to Haves:
- Experience dealing with policy or compliance considerations, particularly around privacy or data protection.
- Experience in sectors that often deal with regulation, such as government, finance services, or healthcare sectors.
- Technical background
Characteristics:
Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.
Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively able to get things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
FourthBrain - Founder in Residence Palo Alto, CA
About AI Fund:
AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward.
Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. AI Fund is uniquely positioned to build AI businesses that can make an immediate and decisive impact.
About FourthBrain:
Students across the US now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. Our team, mostly from Stanford, has collectively educated more people in machine learning than any other organization in the world. The Company will run a blended-learning program that trains existing engineers to become machine-learning experts.
What You Will Be Doing:
- You’ll be the public face of the company, including setting up partnerships with local organizations and customers around the world
- You’ll set overall strategic direction and work relentlessly on execution.
- You’ll build and operate scalable training program, resulting in students being qualified for machine learning jobs upon graduation
- You’ll establish and oversee a recruiting engine that sources qualified candidates and is matched by a strong pipeline of employers for these students upon graduation.
- You’ll build and manage a world class team to scale all aspects of the company, in order to serve thousands of students
What You Must Bring:
- Previous management experience. You’ll be leading a team, and should have a strong track record of management and business/executive leadership.
- Experience in the education profession, specifically student facing educational businesses with technology angle.
- Strategic thinking. You should be able to understand a complex environment and distill a clear and thoughtful direction.
- Previous startup experience or experience with small teams. You will be joining in a very early stage and should be comfortable with ambiguity. You will own scaling the company and have operations experience.
- Exceptional track record of personal and organizational accomplishments.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with curriculum development
- Ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
HealthCare AI Founder-in-Residence Palo Alto, CA
As a Founder in Residence, you will be joining the team at the ground floor to ideate and incubate a new AI Fund portfolio company. You will be working with a small team to validate and build an AI + healthcare company with a focus on administrative, rather than clinical, applications. As a Founder-in-Residence, you will be the leader of this entrepreneurial endeavor, owning the creation and building of an innovative, high growth company in collaboration with the AIFund team.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Working with a small AI Fund team to develop a high growth AI company in the healthcare administration space
- Define the critical pain point/opportunity area the team will pursue
- Develop, test, and iterate on an MVP
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and potential customers
- Define, assess, and develop early GTM opportunities
- Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers, operators, and sector experts
What You Must Bring:
- Previous entrepreneurial experience or experience working with a small, scrappy team that is building new products and/or solutions
- Strong network in the healthcare space, preferably in administration/operations
- Experience selling high-value technology projects into enterprise or government customers or conducting business development around high-level strategic partnerships
- Strong customer discovery and product development skills
- Experience in setting and refining strategic direction
Nice To Haves:
- Experience in sectors that often deal with regulation, such as government, finance services, or healthcare sectors
- Technical background
- Experience in healthcare administration from the vantage point of multiple stakeholders (e.g. payer and provider)
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Partner - Business & Strategy Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
What You Will be Doing:
AI Fund is looking for a senior executive to assist with our process of systematically ideating, validating, building and launching AI companies. You will participate in ideation of new companies, and will be responsible for helping to give strategic guidance to multiple companies at many different stages, ranging from an idea to Series A or B funded companies. Depending on your background and the needs of the fund, you might also end up focusing on companies in one or a small handful of sectors (such as AI+education, AI+healthcare, etc.) Especially in the earlier stages, you will be playing a very active role in shaping the company to ready the company for Series A funding and launch.
- Drive the process for companies through multiple stages of startup creation and launch. Be the single point of contact on behalf of AIF during the multiple stages of startup creation stages to ensure that all milestones are met and on track.
- Provide strategic guidance to our portfolio companies and help them pivot or conduct change management as necessary.
- Be part of the team to continually improve startup creation process.
- As part of AI Fund’s leadership team (CFT), provide oversight and guidance over the fund.
What You Must Bring:
- Previous executive management experience.
- Strong strategic thinker.
- Prior experience assessing a multitude of business situations and driving to a clear and logical strategy.
- Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
- Recent hands-on experience helping startups with pivoting in business related strategy and change management.
- Strong connections and network in the valley to make relevant introductions that will further our portfolio companies in landing first POCs or first customers.
- Been with multiple companies at the pre-product and pre-revenue stage and seeing company growth from 0 to 1.
Nice to Haves
- Successful exits in the past.
- Previous advisory experience advising early stage companies.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Product Marketing Team Lead Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
What you will be doing:
Be part of the team that builds the best AI solutions to solve today’s critical issues in healthcare, financial services, human capital, logistics and more. This is not your traditional product marketing job, as you will be part of the Startup Studio’s investment team that assess market needs, understands customer pain points, and ideates on how to best solve a given problem. Once the idea is funded, you will cycle back to create the next best idea.
Work on a cross-functional team
As part of the investment team, you will be the product marketing lead that works on uncovering customer insights and spot opportunities ahead of time. You will keep the team on track to be able to succinctly explain core customer insights, market drivers, product/service benefits, value-based messaging, amongst other things.
Strategy
You will deeply understand a given marketplace and help define the "why," "what," and "when" in the build process, and develop key messages that offer unique value propositions to the stakeholders, as well as how it stands out from the competition. You have deep experience understanding product/services landscapes, competitive analysis, competitive threats, and can anticipate market shifts.
Customer development
Your focus will be to study the market to uncover a need in a marketplace and understand key stakeholder personas and pain points. You will thrive on talking to customers to understand and validate their pain points. As you move through the build process, you will develop scenarios on how to best solve the pain points of the stakeholders and help move the process through to ideation and then to an MVP.
Go-to-market
You have been there and done that and know what it takes to get a product/service to market. How will you get to the right audience, with the best solution at the right time? With your expertise, you will be the lead for developing go-to-market recommendations for the idea to succeed.
What you must bring:
Must Haves:
Minimum 8 years of product marketing or related experience in tech industries
Previous product marketing experience
Previous marketing or sales experience
Sound business acumen
Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience
Must exhibit hands on, roll up your sleeves qualities
Strong analytical skills
Have represented technology companies and solutions
Bachelor's Degree and MBA preferred
Nice to Haves:
Experience with AI products
Experience in healthcare related industries
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
TalkTime - Chief Technology Officer Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About TalkTime:
TalkTime’s mission is to create the most effective way for customers and companies to interact, leveraging AI, natural-language processing, and a mobile-first interface. We believe the outdated model of the customer contact center, and its huge IT and organizational cost, that has been in-place for over 50 years is due for a reset. We believe the existing model is frustrating and demotivating for both customers and customer service agents. We believe customers want a faster, easier, more satisfying way to interact with companies; and that companies want a less expensive, more transparent, and more flexible way of nurturing their customer relationships. We believe that if companies and customers could design their ideal way of communicating, that it would not involve contact centers, CRM systems and case numbers, but a seamless, personalized, empowered experience. TalkTime is building that experience.
What You Will be Doing:
-Develop TalkTime’s overall technology strategy and software architecture
-Evaluate buy/build/partner options and implement systems infrastructure
-Ensure security, scalability and performance of overall technology infrastructure
-Manage an initial 3-person technical team and grow that team, initially with two open headcount
-Evangelize the company’s technology plan, capabilities and vision with executives, customers, investors, employees and other key stakeholders
-Work intimately with early customers, both end users and enterprises, to rapidly incorporate feedback and build an optimal product solution
-Align company’s technology development plan with the company’s business goals
-Develop unique, proprietary (and ideally patentable) intellectual property that yields competitive advantage
-Drive system infrastructure decisions to ensure performance and capital efficiency
-Define quality assurance, security, compliance and data protection processes
-Manage within target KPIs, project timelines, and overall budgetary goals
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
-8-10 years of experience, both as an individual contributor and manager.
-Entrepreneurial spirit -- someone who can simultaneously think big, but also grounded in the immediate, practical, get-stuff-done mindset of a startup.
-Previous startup experience is the best way to evaluate this skill.
-Strategic vision -- need someone who is passionate about what we are doing and how it will make our customers’ lives better.
-Deep knowledge of the latest technologies and engineering trends, tools and platforms. Excellent written and verbal communication skills -- both interpersonal as well as presentation and customer-facing skills.
-Understanding of budgets and project planning with an adept ability to prioritize and focus on the most critical projects first.
-Ability to conduct technology analyses/evaluations, infrastructure decisions and deep code reviews.
-Hands-on development expertise, particularly in AI, machine learning, NLP or related field, with the ability to write and review code themselves.
-Deep leadership and organizational development skills, with the ability to attract, assess, hire and retain top technical talent.
-Growth mindset with a love of solving problems and a willingness to know one’s own knowledge limitations.
-BSc/BA in Computer Science/Engineering from top-tier institution.
-Previous technical leadership experience required at least at a director level.
-Well-tuned organizational skills, translating to predictable delivery and deadline achievement, along with the ability to consider prioritization trade-offs.
Nice to Haves:
-Prior experience as a CTO and member of an executive/founding team a plus
-Masters/PhD in Computer Science or an MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.
-Located in the Bay Area and willing to work from our Palo Alto office preferred, but open to remote candidates.
Characteristics
Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.
Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times.
High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively able to get things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
TalkTime - Mobile Developer Medellín, Antioquia
Who we are:
AI Fund is a startup studio that systematically creates and launches new companies that bridge the gap between AI technology and business applications in industries we believe push the world forward.
TalkTime’s mission is to create the most effective way for customers and companies to interact, leveraging AI, natural-language processing, and a mobile-first interface. We believe the outdated model of the customer contact center, and its huge IT and organizational cost, that has been in-place for over 50 years is due for a reset. We believe the existing model is frustrating and demotivating for both customers and customer service agents. We believe customers want a faster, easier, more satisfying way to interact with companies; and that companies want a less expensive, more transparent, and more flexible way of nurturing their customer relationships. We believe that if companies and customers could design their ideal way of communicating, that it would not involve contact centers, CRM systems and case numbers, but a seamless, personalized, empowered experience. TalkTime is building that experience.
We are looking for an entrepreneurial Mobile Engineer who will work with a team of engineers building and maintaining our future mobile application. Based in Medellin, Colombia, this will be a key role within our client’s engineering team, requiring mobile development experience with React Native or Swift. You will work closely with the team to quickly execute and iterate on the product on its path to product market fit.
Here’s what you will do:
Provides programming expertise and business analysis skills within an assigned business area, usually as a member of a project team, in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applications. Prepares programming specifications from which programs will be written, and designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents program. Prepares programming documentation and recommends changes in development, maintenance and application standards. Complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices.
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
• 3+ years of end-to-end release experience in iOS mobile development.
• At least 2 years of experience in Swift.
• Proficiency in Facebook's React Native framework is preferred.
• Experience developing Android apps is a plus.
• Experience packaging apps into an SDK.
• Demonstrable samples of high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Experience analyzing app performance to refine features and drive adoption.
• Must have the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills. You should feel comfortable having in-depth technical discussions with your team and clients.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
At AI Fund and TalkTime, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Workera - Co-Founder/Sr. Executive Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About Workera:
Workera is building a self-assessment platform connecting job seekers to employers in AI. The product is a two-sided marketplace where:
- Workera candidates (i) are tested with skill-based assessments, (ii) receive personalized feedback, and (iii) are referred to jobs they like. Our value propositions to candidates include self-assessment, career guidance, interview preparation and job referrals.
- Workera partners (i) define precise requirements curated by Workera, (ii) receive statistics regarding the talent availability for the roles they define and (iii) select qualified referrals on a dashboard. Our value propositions to partners include helping them frame their needs strategically, and quick access to unbiasedly vetted talent.
What You Will be Doing:
- Strategy and Planning. You will participate in shaping company strategy. This includes Positioning, Go-To-Market and Marketing strategies.
- Executive leadership. Ability to grow, manage and scale a sizable team. S/he should have prior experience managing and mentoring at least teams of size about 25 or larger, ideally even much larger. S/he should also help Workera put in place sound management systems and processes to ensure smooth running of the organization.
- Business Leadership. S/he will be responsible for building up the business functions of the company. This includes finding and selling to Workera’s enterprise customers, and maintaining relationships over time as we help companies hire better using Workera’s technology and processes. S/he will also manage the recruiting team supporting our placement business and monitor their performance.
- Marketing and Customer Aquisition. Able to oversee the company’s marketing activities, and drive both B2C and B2B customer acquisition through marketing.
Must Haves:
- Strong business experience, including commercialization and Go-to-market experience
- B2B sales experience, including the ability to manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing
- B2C user acquisition experience to build up a community
- Experience growing small teams in a fast moving environment, and experience managing at 25+ employees
- Proven ability to help drive corporate strategy and select the right points of focus to grow a business
Nice to Haves:
- Experience in an early stage startup, either as an early employee, founder, or advisor
- Field experience in two-sided marketplaces, recruiting, and/or assessment
- Experience leading high-growth teams
Characteristics:
Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.
Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively able to get things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
What We Have to Offer :
Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
401(k) plan with match and immediate vesting after 6 months
Untracked PTO including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s
Variety of medical, dental and vision coverage to choose from
Monthly education budget
Commuter benefits
Collegial atmosphere
Direct and transparent communication style
Empowered to be the best you can be
Innovative environment
Work with global AI Leaders
Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.