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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.
Credo.ai - Head of Engineering Palo Alto, CA
Credo.ai is part of the AI Fund family. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is building new AI companies. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that will move the world forward. Just as electricity transformed numerous industries, AI and AI Fund are now poised to do the same.
About Credo.AI:
Credo’s mission is to enable trustworthy and responsible AI development, deployment, and use. 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. We provide an independent, third-party stamp of approval certifying an AI system with respect to a specific use case. We are driving the standard for AI governance, improving the trust gaps between stakeholders, and creating the broader playbook for AI regulation.
Building trustworthy and responsible AI that can deliver meaningful societal impact needs to focus relentlessly on Fairness & Inclusion, Reliability & Robustness, Privacy & security, Transparency & User Control, and AI governance. 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.
Are you an Engineering Leader who is not only passionate about machine intelligence but is also excited to be at the forefront of solving the risks that machine decisions present? Then we are looking for you!
Our Head of Engineering will scale, define, and execute on Credo’s Responsible AI and Audit aspirations.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Develop and drive Credo’s overall human centered technology strategy and software architecture.
- Be a sounding board and trusted partner to Credo’s executive team to challenge, augment and implement Credo’s vision in Responsible AI & Audit.
- Drive strategic and analytical AI product engineering development to implement systems infrastructure using cloud and AI first approach.
- Bring creative problem solving to align the company’s technology development plan with the company’s business goals.
- Evangelize the company’s technology plan, capabilities and vision with executives, customers, investors, employees and other key stakeholders.
- Drive early customers POCs to rapidly turn their feedback into product features.
- Develop unique, proprietary (and ideally patentable) intellectual property that yields competitive advantage.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- 10+ years of experience, building and leading engineering teams.
- 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.
- Strategic vision -- passion for what we are doing and how it will make our customers’ lives better.
- Deep knowledge of the latest AI/ML technologies and engineering trends, tools and platforms.
- Hands-on development AI/ML expertise with the ability to write and review code.
- Ability to conduct technology analyses/evaluations, infrastructure decisions, and deep code reviews.
- Deep leadership and organizational development skills, with the ability to attract, assess, hire and retain top technical talent.
- BSc/BA in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Location: Bay Area, open to remote candidates.
- Member of an executive/founding team is a plus.
- Prior experience working on governance, privacy, explainability, security, compliance products is highly desirable.
- Masters/PhD in Computer Science or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
- Appreciation of responsible AI product development to ensure reliability, scalability and performance of overall technology infrastructure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills -- interpersonal, presentation, and customer-facing skills.
- Well-tuned organizational skills, translating to predictable delivery and deadline achievement, along with the ability to consider prioritization trade-offs.
- Growth mindset with a love of solving problems and a willingness to know one’s own knowledge limitations.
Nice to Haves:
Other Essential Abilities and Skills:
Founder-In-Residence Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity. Just as it transformed entire industries 100 years ago, AI is poised to do the same today. AI Fund is a venture studio that was formed to be at the forefront of this revolutionary wave. We harness artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
Why Partner With AI Fund:
We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed up front. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would take that first step in becoming an entrepreneur.
Coming up with great ideas, sussing them out, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are going after the right market, are fully validated, and are surrounded by great teammates. Lastly, we make sure you see the world through the lens of a data scientist and machine learning expert, which is the perspective any meaningful company in the future must have.
But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.
What We Seek:
We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs with first-hand knowledge of the problem they have encountered or entrepreneurs that might match to a problem or idea we already have.
It’s not a mandate, but ideally, we want people with experience solving business problems and have a keen eye for anticipating business risks. You may have been a product manager running a product or product line before. You may have been an engineer who has been on the front lines of helping shape a company. You may have been a management consultant who has experience in a particular vertical. Or perhaps you are a proven entrepreneur who recognizes that the difference between success and failure is razor thin, and you want every advantage you can get.
Lastly, we want people who are leaders. We desire people who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
What You Will be Doing:
- The FIR will work with the AI Fund Leadership Team to launch and scale new businesses from the ground up. If you're obsessed with startups and building exceptional products this role is for you.
- Work alongside our staff to iteratively research and validate on a problem to solve that can benefit from AI/ML. This includes idea validation, product validation, market validation, and funding validation.
- Design a product and prototype it.
- Set the vision and the strategy of the portfolio company once the idea has been tested and determined product market fit.
- If all makes sense, we capitalize the company to help you stand the company up, bring in the best talent, build the product, and get pilot customers
What You Must Bring:
- Strategic thinking.
- Self-starter who will thrive in an ambiguous startup environment.
- Competitive, entrepreneurial mindset.
- Demonstrated experience building products and leading teams.
- Demonstrated track record of success.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to recruit great team members.
- Demonstrated ability to fund raise.
- Nice to Haves:
- Prior startup founder or experience working at an early stage company.
- Integral part of 0 to 1 growth company.
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience
Characteristics that We Value:
- 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.
FourthBrain.ai - Academic Operations Director Palo Alto, CA
About FourthBrain:
FourthBrain aims to launch candidates into careers in Artificial Intelligence by bridging the gap between employers and qualified candidates via real world applications and hands-on training. Students will now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. FourthBrain will run a blended-learning program that trains candidates to become machine-learning experts and positions them for careers in AI.
About AI Fund:
FourthBrain is backed by AI Fund, a venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
The Director of Operations at FourthBrain will oversee program management, ideate selection and recruiting processes for students, lead external communication, and ensure fast execution. As part of an early-stage startup you can expect to wear multiple hats, be scrappy, gain experience in multiple functions while building teams in a dynamic environment.
What You Will be Doing:
- Oversee day-to-day operations for an early stage startup building and scaling a blended learning training program, resulting in students being qualified for machine learning jobs.
- Developing a recruiting engine that efficiently sources qualified candidates from the target demographic. You’ll ensure student success via student support.
- Conduct market research in the education landscapeResearch and execute on viable payment options and implement for early cohorts with an eye to scale.
- Build a tight feedback loop with students and employers while ensuring action to improve the program with each iteration.
- Assist with communication, marketing and partnership with companies to build a strong pipeline of employers for students upon graduation
What You Must Bring:
- 5-7 years of experience in the education or technology field
- Bachelor's degree in education, communications, business, STEM or a related field
- Experience in external communications, marketing, admissions or recruiting
- Experience with startups in creating processes, designing SOPs and evaluating key metrics to drive success
- Entrepreneurial grit - you are a visionary startup leader who enjoys identifying and taking on projects from 0 to 1 and beyond. You are ready to roll up your sleeves and willing to be scrappy in order to carry out plans under time and resource constraints.
- Leadership and collaboration - you can set direction and lead a team, including collaborating with teams and startups within the AI Fund family.
- Outcomes oriented - you have the ability to ruthlessly prioritize, iterate quickly and design programs to evaluate viability based on outcomes.
- Passion for learning - you don’t have to have an existing background in AI, but you should be deeply curious about the field and able to intervene in details to make sure training operates smoothly and successfully.
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 gets 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.
FourthBrain.ai - Career Services Specialist Palo Alto, CA
About FourthBrain:
FourthBrain aims to launch candidates into careers in Artificial Intelligence by bridging the gap between employers and qualified candidates via real world applications and hands-on training. Students will now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. FourthBrain will run a blended-learning program that trains candidates to become machine-learning experts and positions them for careers in AI.
About AI Fund:
FourthBrain is backed by AI Fund, a venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
The Career Services Specialist at FourthBrain will develop career education aimed at software engineers and programmers entering careers in machine learning and AI. You will oversee delivery of the career curriculum, conduct 1:1s with students, collaborate with hiring managers and technical curriculum development to understand the needs assessed by behavioral questions. As part of an early-stage startup you can expect to wear multiple hats, be scrappy, while building teams in a dynamic environment.
What You Will be Doing:
- Developing a recruiting engine that efficiently prepares candidates to be matched with the right roles
- Communicate and partner with companies to build a strong pipeline of employers for students upon graduation
- Collaborate with industry experts and build a network to engage them in guest lectures
- Design networking opportunities for students as they embark on their job search
- Conduct market research in the recruiting needs for the machine learning roles .
- Build a tight feedback loop with students and employers while ensuring action to improve the program with each iteration.
- Work closely with students 1:1 to tailor resume, LinkedIn review along with practice for behavioral interviews and assess culture fit
- Train additional career advisors as the program scales
What You Must Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in education, counseling, psychology, communications, STEM or a related field
- Experience in counseling or recruiting preferred
- Experience with startups in creating processes, designing SOPs and evaluating key metrics to drive success
- Entrepreneurial grit - you are a visionary startup leader who enjoys identifying and taking on projects from 0 to 1 and beyond. You are ready to roll up your sleeves and willing to be scrappy in order to carry out plans under time and resource constraints
- Leadership and collaboration - you can set direction and lead a team, including collaborating with teams and startups within the AI Fund family. Conceptualize and deliver training to create specializations within the team as the program scales
- Outcomes oriented - you have the ability to ruthlessly prioritize, iterate quickly and design programs to evaluate viability based on outcomes.
- Passion for learning - you don’t have to have an existing background in AI, but you should be deeply curious about the field and able to intervene in details to make sure training operates smoothly and successfully.
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 gets 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.
FourthBrain.ai - ML Curriculum Development Director Palo Alto, CA
About FourthBrain:
FourthBrain aims to launch candidates into careers in Artificial Intelligence by bridging the gap between employers and qualified candidates via real world applications and hands-on training. Students will now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. FourthBrain will run a blended-learning program that trains candidates to become machine-learning experts and positions them for careers in AI.
About AI Fund:
FourthBrain is backed by AI Fund, a venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
The Director of Curriculum Development at FourthBrain will leverage their technical skills in ML to create comprehensive project instructions, assessment and design learning experiences to support students developing their portfolio. They will utilize their expertise to develop end to end high quality and effective learning experiences. Your experience as an educator, technical skills in the AI space and ability to communicate and work well with a team will all be critical for this role.
What You Will be Doing:
- Deliver instruction to test curriculum for early cohorts.
- Train instructors and TAs as the program scales to deliver quality learning experiences
- Develop astute understanding of key metrics to indicate student success, engagement and completion.
- Collaborate with industry experts to align learning outcomes with hiring needs in ML.
- Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules
- Assess students for the right background and knowledge to be set up for success
- Partner with career education to identify key areas of development
- Collaborate with startups within the AI ecosystem to curate content that scaffolds the learning experience
What You Must Bring:
- Technical background in math and programming to develop machine learning projects and curriculum.
- Knowledge of open AI technologies to build collaborative projects
- Experience with instructional design best practices as well as experience designing and teaching technical courses.
- Bachelors in STEM / AI / CS or equivalent industry experience in areas like software development, machine learning or data science.
Nice to Haves:
- Previous experience developing curriculum in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics or similar.
- Interest in student motivation and blended learning or flipped classroom formats.
- Masters in STEM / AI / CS or related field.
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 gets 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.
Kaiyo Claim - Head of Engineering Palo Alto, CA
Kaiyo Claim is part of the AI Fund family. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is a startup studio focused on resolving problems to move the world forward. We build new AI companies to bridge AI technology and critical applications. Just as electricity transformed numerous industries, AI and AI Fund are poised to do the same.
Kaiyo Claim’s mission is to design and build responsible AI tools for the US healthcare revenue cycle ecosystem.
As the Head of Engineering, you will be a hands-on leader willing to roll-up your sleeves and develop Kaiyo’s overall technology strategy and software architecture. You will align the company's technology development plan with the company’s business goals. As part of Kaiyo’s executive team, you will be a sounding board and trusted partner to challenge, augment and implement AI solutions for healthcare revenue cycle management.
In this position you will:
- Design and Build the MVP - Building elegant solutions to challenges associated with analyzing financial documents.
- Have a growth mindset, bring creative problem solving to align the company’s technology development plan with the company’s business goals.
- Work intimately with customers, both end users and enterprises, driving POCs and rapidly incorporating feedback to build an optimal product solution.
- Manage within target KPIs, project timelines, and overall budgetary goals.
- Develop unique, proprietary (and ideally patentable) intellectual property that yields competitive advantage.
- Ensure security, scalability, and performance of overall technology infrastructure.
Must Haves:
- An AI adjacent, full stack engineer willing to be hands on initially and build the team.
- Experience developing and deploying with OCR technologies such as Tesseract, Google Vision, Amazon Rekognition, Microsoft Computer Vision, and Nuance Omnipage.
- 8-10 years of experience, including time as both an individual contributor and a manager.
- Previous technical leadership experience required (Director level or above)with the proven ability to attract, assess, hire, and retain top technical talent.
- Deep knowledge of the latest technologies and engineering trends, tools, and platforms.
- Pragmatic approach to software development including continuous improvements, testing, and user-focused software.
- Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
- Entrepreneurial spirit -- someone who can simultaneously think big, but also stay grounded in the immediate, practical, get-stuff-done mindset of a startup.
- Strategic vision -- passion for what we can do at scale, and how it will change the US healthcare system for the better.
- Willingness to work in or relocate to the Bay Area.
- BSc/BA in Computer Science/Engineering from a top-tier institution.
Rustle - 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 Rustle:
Rustle’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. Rustle is building that experience.
What You Will be Doing:
-Develop Rustle’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.
Workera - Business Advisor - Part Time Palo Alto, CA
Job Description:
Workera is looking for a Business Advisor who will participate in shaping company strategy, fundraising, and business execution.
About Workera
Workera is a standardized testing platform that measures people’s skills to help them achieve their fullest career potential. Our first focus is to evaluate data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers, and serve them job opportunities.
We partner with companies across industries to help them establish a top performing AI team. This includes engineering, applied science, and research teams in Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Autonomous Driving, Energy, Transportation, Robotics, Social Media, FinTech, Agriculture, and more!
What You Will be Doing:
Business Strategy and Planning. You will quickly assess the current business, competitive environment, and market landscape, and play a significant role in shaping the company’s strategy. This includes Positioning, Go-To-Market and exploring potential Platform/Marketplace strategies.
Fundraising. You will participate in the fundraising discussion in the short term, and the fundraising strategy in the long run. You will help with crafting the company positioning and financial modeling so that it will be ready to fundraise from outside VCs in less than a year.
Business Execution. You will be responsible for developing the team’s ability to grow with an emphasis on B2B sales. We are emphasizing B2B sales because the deeplearning.ai ecosystem gives Workera a significant advantage on the B2C. Business execution will include both leading by example and coaching the current team. You should be ready to step-in during a complex sale, and also advise on company B2C marketing. You should also leverage your personal network to make Workera successful.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
*A blend of business skills, including strategic thinking, business development, sales and/or marketing.
* Previous management experience.
* Fundraising experience.
* Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
Nice to Haves:
* Experience with two-sided marketplaces, recruiting, or assessment is a plus.
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 gets 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 Workera 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. deeplearning.ai 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.
Workera - Digital Marketing Manager Palo Alto, CA
We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Manager to help grow our community of job seekers (B2C) and corporate clients (B2B). In this role, you will help lay the foundation of our marketing efforts. You’ll help optimize our digital marketing operations, and own all of our marketing channels (search, social and others). You’ll be responsible for developing and executing data-driven digital marketing campaigns, with an emphasis on content marketing. As an early member of the Workera team, you will play a strategically important role in shaping the direction and vision of our brand.
Here’s what you’ll do:
-Drive keyword discovery, competitive research, and web page optimization using SEO best practices and platforms such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Moz/SEMRush, and A/B testing platforms.
-Plan, implement, and optimize new paid search campaigns (e.g., SEM, Google Display/Search, Facebook campaigns) in accordance with predefined KPIs on an ongoing basis.
-Execute content marketing strategies and develop key messaging that resonates with target audiences.
-Work with key stakeholders to develop digital marketing campaigns that support key moments including product launches, events, and partnership announcements.
-Compile and present reports to evaluate marketing performance, learn information about our users, and segment them appropriately into distinct categories.
Here’s the skills you should have:
-Experience developing search and content marketing campaigns from concept through execution, including ownership of driving key business results.
-Direct experience with leveraging marketing automation tools to execute successful data-driven growth campaigns.
-Demonstrated ability to use consumer insights to develop and execute memorable marketing campaigns.
-Proven ability to develop meaningful growth metrics and lead marketing campaigns end-to-end, from planning to execution, to reach those results.
-Experience developing strategies for 2-3 marketing channels in parallel, and gauging the success and go-forward strategy for each channel based on performance metrics.
-Experience in developer marketing, and engaging with developer communities, is highly preferred.
-Experience with B2B lead generation is highly preferred.
What you get working with us:
-Being part of a world-class technical team that’s trying to change the world.
-Working across cultural and geographical lines alongside our offices in different parts of the world.
-Ability to shape the entire marketing system of a brand from the ground up.
-A culture of life-long learning supported with monthly stipend for professional development.
-The opportunity to be exceptionally creative in a very modest field with your high impact ideas.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
-Strong work ethic. All of us believe in our work’s ability to change human lives, and consequently, work not just smart, but also hard.
-Growth mindset. We are eager to teach you new skills and invest in your continual development. But learning is hard work, so this is something we hope you’ll want to do.
-Team oriented. We care and watch out for each other. We’re humble individually and go after big goals together.
-Flexibility. You should be flexible in your tasks and do whatever is needed, ranging from lower-level tasks like scheduling to high level recruiting strategy.
Zest - Business Advisor - Part Time Palo Alto, CA
Job Description
We are seeking a business advisor to assist in strategic business planning for an early stage startup in the digital health and wellness space. As a business advisor, you’ll help develop business strategy, business models, and a cogent plan with meaningful milestones.
We’re looking for someone with an exceptional track record in evaluating business processes and success in raising capital from top tier venture capital firms. Additionally, we’re seeking a business advisor who can mentor an eager, budding founder/CEO to take an innovative product to a fiercely competitive market.
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 venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
About Zest:
We're a small, international team located in Palo Alto, California and Medellín, Colombia. We're a team of diligent innovators from diverse backgrounds who want to make a big impact on society's biggest problems. We're working to move the world forward and change the way we tackle obesity.
Our mission is to end the obesity epidemic and be the most compelling preventative health company that drives the world to see food differently, where everyone enjoys the food they eat, maintains a healthy weight, and lives happier and healthier lives.
What You Will be Doing:
*Work closely together with the founder/CEO to develop the following:
- Marketing, branding, and sales strategy
- Go-to-market strategyMonetization plan
- Business model development
- Competitive analysis
- Company milestones development
* Mentor the founder/CEO a few times a week to discuss the business plan
* Advise on operations and key leadership skills
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
* Successful track record advising early stage startups in the digital health & wellness space.
* Direct to consumer marketing experience.
* Expert in user acquisition strategy and tactics through diverse channels including community building and social media.
* Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
* Previous executive management experience.
* Passionate about holistic approach to weight loss.
Nice to Haves:
* Experience raising funds through reputable venture capitalists.
* Experience in mobile and web product development.
* Experience founding successful startups.
* Background in psychology or other healthcare field
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 gets 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.