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AI Fund Office AssistantPalo Alto, CA
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.In this role, you will be responsible for essential operational tasks to optimize day-to-day activities for AI Fund and its portfolio companies. Specifically, you will perform a wide variety of office administration tasks, including assisting with certain HR related operations. You will play a key role in managing the logistics of an organization that is scaling quickly, and will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of how great AI companies are built and how cutting-edge AI products are delivered.
Here’s what you will do:
- Assist with calendar management and business travel arrangements for AI Fund partners, including providing backup/coverage for Executive Assistant
- Assist in organizing employee on-boarding and orientation process to ensure a smooth transition for new employees
- Manage, including coordinate with vendors, on office facilities matters (including IT services, video conferencing services, snacks and catering, office supplies purchasing, furniture, and general repair and maintenance, etc.); track and upload receipts for related office credit card transactions; maintain and update property & equipment tracking and perform inventory count on a regular basis
- Perform other general office duties, e.g. develop and organize filing systems for physical and electronic files, ensure shared spaces/common areas (such as meeting rooms and kitchen) are clean and orderly, etc.
- Perform front desk tasks, e.g., greet guests, check in/out and distribution of mail and other deliveries
Here’s the background you should have:
- Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to use good judgment and discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information
- Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be effective independently
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
We hope you’ll fit into our 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.
- Good team member: 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.
This is a full-time (contract to hire) position based in or around Palo Alto, California. You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Executive AssistantPalo Alto, CA
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.
In this role, you will be responsible for executive assistant duties and office administrative tasks.
Here’s what you will do:
- Manages an extremely active calendar of appointments; plans, coordinates and ensures the Executive's schedule is followed and respected.
- Arranges complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; and compiles documents for travel-related meetings.
- Works closely and effectively with the Executive to keep him/her well informed of upcoming commitments and responsibilities, following up appropriately.
- Acts as a "barometer," having a sense for the issues taking place in the environment and keeping the Executive updated.
- Maintains office services by organizing office operations and proceduresMaintains office efficiency by planning and implementing office systems, layouts, and equipment procurement.
- Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Here's the background you should have:
- Strong organizational skills that reflect the ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks
- seamlessly with excellent attention to detail
- Very strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making
- capability
- Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective
- independently
- Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various
- competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and
- response
- Demonstrated ability to achieve high-performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast
- paced environment
- Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions
- Minimum of three years of work experience
We hope you'll fit into our 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.
- Good team member: 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
This is a full-time position based in or around Palo Alto. You must already have, or to be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Full Stack Software EngineerMedellín, Antioquia
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries 100 years ago, AI is now posed to do the same. The AI Fund is building companies that will use AI to transform every type of industry, and improve human life. We are building a new healthcare startup under Andrew Ng. This is your chance to break into AI and join an exciting, early stage startup.
You will build an AI-powered software system to deliver valuable services to a diverse set of users.
We’re looking for candidates with strong computer science fundamentals with a passion for improving people’s health and wellness. The ideal candidate will thrive in an early stage startup, resonate with our vision that AI will transform the way we live, and commit to building a bright future together.
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for building and delivering high quality AI-powered solutions to our users in a fast-paced startup environment. You’ll work with a team of talented domain experts and engineers to develop a novel product powered by AI.
Here’s what you will do:
- Build and deliver high quality full stack, AI-powered application. You’ll work collaboratively to build both frontend (mobile and web) and backend applications, improve productivity in our development cycle, and develop internal tools for analytics and A/B testing. You will learn and apply full stack software development skills, including frontend / UI, backend business logic and data management, machine learning model training, and cloud deployment. You will be immersed in a highly dynamic and agile development environment.
- Ensure reliable, scalable systems to deliver the best experience for users. We obsess over user experience. This is your chance to learn to build a reliable, scalable system from the ground up. You will learn and apply your full stack software development skills to establish effective monitoring tools, develop automated test suites for unit, functional, integration, load, and failure testing.
Background and skills we look for:
- Bachelor degree is required in C.S or related technical field. Advanced degree is preferred.
- Broad and solid CS foundation knowledge, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks, databases.
- Strong ability to convert ideas to running code. You should feel that communicating through programming is as natural as speaking your first language.
- Proficiency in at least one compiled language and one script language.
- Basic software pattern design. Your code should be easy to extend and scale.
- Experience in mobile and/or web application development.
- Good communication skills. You should feel comfortable having in-depth technical discussions with your team and clients.
- [Optional] Experience in setting up and using databases, SQL, NoSQL, etc.
- [Optional] Experience in cloud deployment and Linux based server environments.
The ideal candidate will fit well in our startup culture, if s/he:
- Intense passion for startup culture.
- Can-do attitude.
- Growth mindset to constantly improve and learn.
- Focused on results.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- A great team player.
- Able to work under time constraints and manage workloads effectively.
- Has an eye for detail.
- Highly self-motivated and well organized.
- Fast learner with ability to grasp technical concepts quickly.
- (Bonus) Highly creative, imaginative, and curious.
- (Bonus) Sound business judgment.
- (Bonus) Motivates and mentors others.
This is a full-time position based in Medellin, Colombia.
Fund EngineerPalo Alto, CA
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.
We are searching for a Fund Engineer who has outstanding technical and communication skills backed by an entrepreneurial spirit. This opportunity is a great match for someone excited about working across a breadth of AI business models and developing an expertise in the earliest stages of entrepreneurship.
This person will be a technical advisor to each early stage idea we work to validate. They will develop a point of view about what is technically promising and what isn’t.
This person doesn’t have to be an expert in all areas, but they should be curious and a quick learner. If they don’t know something well, they must be dogged in finding someone who does.
And they should be able to communicate clearly what they find. This person should also join early customer conversations to answer technical questions. One engineer could likely serve at least 5 companies.
The engineer will focus on three areas:
- Diligence: Work to structure problems into a machine learning framework and develop a perspective on the technical feasibility of potential solutions based on current practices and the latest research.
- Prototyping: The engineer may advise on data collection best practices. In certain cases, once we acquire data, the engineer may build out rough prototypes in order to help us technically validate certain parts of the proposed solution.
- Customer-facing: Our customers often raise technical questions in our meetings, and it’s important that the engineer be able to address them cogently and in real-time. This will require strong communication skills and an ability to convey technical issues to a non-technical audience.
We hope you’ll fit into our 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.
- Good team member: 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.
This is a full-time position based in Palo Alto, California. You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Lacuna MLSchool - Chief Executive OfficerPalo Alto, CA
AI has the potential to transform every industry and change our world. We will have an exponential need for AI talents from all walks of life to build, test and deploy new AI systems.
MLSchool is a seed-stage startup building a new type of Machine Learning teams by providing effective and practical educational resources in Latin America.
We are looking for an exceptional CEO to own the end-to-end success of this company.
Here’s what you will do:
- Set vision of the company and define the strategy to scale
- Develop and maintain foundational business partnerships
- Oversee day-to-day operations in the U.S. and in Latin America
- Hire and retain exceptional talent to grow the team
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
- Entrepreneurial grit - you are a visionary startup executive who has taken 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 - you are a leader and a team player, who can collaborate with teams from a different culture and in different geographies. You can align resources to achieve key business priorities
- Business development skills - you are a strong communicator and are able to sell to early partners and customers. You are also a great listener, who can discover unserved market demand
- Passion for AI education - we are excited to make an impact by bringing quality AI education to a broader audience, and we hope you share our passion
Bonus if:
- You’ve been a founder or have led a team of 10+ people
- Basic literacy on artificial intelligence and machine learning
- You speak Spanish or have ties to Latin America
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. Consequently, we 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.
- Good team member: 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 such as coordinating complicated schedules, to high-level work such as thinking through corporate strategy.
This is a full-time position based in or around Palo Alto, California. You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Machine Learning EngineerMedellín, Antioquia
Artificial intelligence is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now posed to do the same, and will improve human life. The AI Fund is building AI-powered startups from scratch, specifically pursuing opportunities that can have a decisive impact. Together with our entrepreneurs, we go after business ideas that will transform industries and build them from the ground up.
TalkTime is building an AI powered customer contact software that drives efficiency of contact operations, delighting customers and boosting margin by giving high-quality responses faster.
We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our Medellin office. In this role, you will be one of the founding employees of a new start up: Talk Time. You will drive the development of AI products and participate firsthand in the development of a top-notch AI startup. You will directly shape the direction of the company and help iterate on the offering to achieve product market fit. This role reports directly to AI Fund leadership.
Here’s what you will do:
- Lead the ideation, prototyping, and development of TalkTime’s AI software,
- Develop and deploy high-quality proof of concept projects with a variety of first customer partners
- Rapid development of high performance ML models for deployment to production.
- Drive continual performance improvements and iterate on the product offering.
- Develop innovative NLP approaches for novel applications where good solutions do not currently exist and work creatively to come up with the optimal systems to solve customer’s most burning needs.
- Be part of a dynamic, fast growing team as a founding employee
- Participate in the development and direction of the company’s evolution and product roadmap
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
- Strong background in machine learning and NLP.
- Able to launch and lead new ML application projects in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Strong coding ability--you must be able to write clean, modular, efficient code.
- Experience deploying software at scale is a plus
- An advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field is a plus
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
- Strong work ethic. We 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.
- Good team member: We care and watch out for each other. We’re humble individually, and go after big goals together.
- Flexibility: Since we’re an early stage company, you should be flexible in your tasks and do whatever is needed. You should be willing and able to operate in ambiguity.
This is a full-time position based in Medellin, Colombia.
NLP Machine Learning Engineer -TalkTimePalo Alto, CA
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 is building an AI powered customer contact software that drives efficiency of contact operations, delighting customers and boosting margin by giving high-quality responses faster. We are looking for an entrepreneurial Machine Learning Engineer with natural language processing expertise. This MLE will work closely with the team to quickly execute and iterate on the product on it’s path to product market fit.
Here is what you’ll do:
- Lead technology development and AI architecture design. Make decisions on key NLP architecture: In addition to Python proficiency and a demonstrable ability to write and maintain medium-sized software codebases, you will be responsible for selecting and applying specific NLP technologies. You will need to consider not only the requirements of building and accurate and robust system, but also the realities of deployment issues and how best to deploy models in production. As you will be developing a novel product, a thorough understanding of advanced ML concepts backed by a proven track record of designing and delivering NLP solutions in industry and/or academia will be critical to the success of our work. Given the novel nature of the product, research experience is preferred but not required.
- Act as a technical lead for projects. You must be able to help lead small project teams to tackle technically challenging problems in terms of the machine learning and data perspectives. You must be able to select the correct direction in terms of what NLP architecture to use for different problems and how to deal with and organize the data for model training and evaluation. In additiaon you are expected to be able to communicate engineering effort and issues to the business team and work with them to best help fit the partner/customer needs. You should have strong technical and non-technical communication skills and display an ability to convey complex technical topics to non-technical people without a machine learning background.
- Quickly master technical and non-technical industry specifics. We will be working with customers across a number of verticals with well defined and vocabularies and specific nuances. It will be critical for you to ramp up on terminology and functions of the industry. You should be excited about throwing yourself into learning these technical and non-technical industry characteristics.
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. Consequently, we 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.
- Good team member: 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 such as coordinating complicated schedules, to high-level work such as thinking through corporate strategy.
This is a full-time position based in or around Palo Alto, California. You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Recruiting Coordinator(Contractor)Palo Alto, CA
AI Fund is seeking a highly organized, efficient and energetic Recruiting Coordinator to join us in Palo Alto. The role will support the recruiting team and hiring managers with the objective of successfully coordinating high-volume and fast-paced end to end recruiting related activity. We have experienced rapid growth over the past year and we are looking for someone to be the efficiency engineer to help us identify, remove and improve various possible bottlenecks within the end to end recruiting process.
The Recruiting Coordinator is often the first impression representing AI Fund and point of contact for candidates so a fun, energetic and helpful demeanor is a must. In this entry-level position, you will be able to learn how to kick start your recruiting or HR career with an extremely talented group of individuals and help us find others that will fit into our organization and grow together as a company and as a family.
Here’s what you will do:
- Act as point of contact for candidates; coordinate, schedule, and manage interview schedules as well as travel and accommodation arrangements when required. The goal is to ensure a positive candidate experience by making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time.
- Use our applicant tracking system and relevant recruiting processes to stay organized and keep our busy team on track.Keep track of the recruiting pipeline and generate weekly reports to reflect the status of the hiring process.
- Represent our team: You will often be the first person a candidate meets when they come to our office. You must be able to represent our startup culture and have a great service oriented attitude to everyone you interact with.
- Communicate effectively with the recruiting committee on a daily basis in order to keep recruiting operations running smoothly.
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
- Obsessed with candidate experience: we see our candidates as our guests, and we are their hosts. It is the Coordinator's job to ensure a smooth and positive interview experience. Detail oriented, highly organized, and process oriented. An excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
- Able to take initiative and have the tact to keep interviews running on time, and follow up with all parties to provide feedback to/from candidates. Previous recruiting coordination experience in a high volume environment.
- Proficiency in MS Office/Google products.
- Experience with some ATS tool is preferred.
- Great interpersonal skills with a service-oriented attitude. High energy individual while staying mature and composed under pressure.
- Bachelor degree or equivalent.
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 know how to 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.
- Good team member: We care and watch out for each other. We’re humble individually and go after big goals together.
- Flexibility: Since we’re an early stage company, you should be flexible in your tasks and do whatever is needed to help the company reach its strategic and both short-term and long-term goals.
This is a temporary to full-time position based in Palo Alto, California. You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.