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Analyst 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 an early stage venture firm founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
Together, let’s build great companies that will move humanity forward.
What We Seek:
We are looking for an analyst to join our investment team to help source and identify the best early-stage companies leveraging AI today to invest in and increase overall deal flow. As an Analyst, you will directly support our Investment team through market research, critical analysis, due-diligence and building/maintaining our internal knowledge infrastructure.
What You Will be Doing:
- Report directly to our General Partner to support investment initiatives.
- Perform deep-dive qualitative and quantitative analyses into a wide variety of industries, technologies, and companies.
- Research and draft invest memos when requested.
- Grow and maintain our internal tools and knowledge database (e.g., relationship management platform).
- Working alongside and learning from some of the best product management, design, and entrepreneurs.
- Cold calls into entrepreneurs and network through relevant events to increase deal flow.
- Getting exposure at the highest levels of executive leadership to help drive long-term strategic investments and venture creation.
- Growing and expanding your professional experience with new topics, companies, and industries daily.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math or physics and equivalent preferably with AI/ML focus or background
- Prior experience working in investment banking, high-tech startup, product development for 1 - 2 years.
- Must have enthusiasm for and a keen interest in investments.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Must be willing and able to juggle numerous projects simultaneously and respond to changing priorities.
- Must have the ability to complete assignments independently and on a timely basis.
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to work as part of a team to accomplish broader goals and objectives.
Please note that there is no relocation budget or visa sponsorship budget available for this role. However, currently, we are working from home until further notice so the successful candidate may work remotely within a 3 hour time difference from PST until employees are requested to return to the office.
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 country you will work from.
Associate Palo Alto, CA
What We Seek:
We are looking for an energetic associate to join our investment team and help us identify the best early stage companies leveraging AI today and help our portfolio companies grow. As company builders, founders and investors ourselves we are looking to add a top new investment talent to our investment team to expand our investment practice. We welcome candidates who possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills and ability to handle ambiguity.
What You Will be Doing
- The associate will be responsible for providing support to the partners in all aspects of potential and existing investments and reports to the AI Fund Partners.
- Source /evaluate early stage investments leveraging outbound prospecting, meeting with entrepreneurs and attending industry events.
- Screen inbound funnel early stage investments.
- Develop industry knowledge and contacts to help formulate investment strategy/themes
- Perform due diligence for potential new investments via Market research and analysis,
- Review of technology, Industry trends, Financial modeling and valuation, Analysis of operational forecasts and budgets
- Reference calls to customers and business partners
- Preparation of investment memos Support existing portfolio via:
- Development of financial models relating to follow-on financings, restructurings, and liquidity events,
- Analysis of potential merger and acquisition exits including breakdown of investor returns,
- Aiding partner board responsibilities
- Development of presentation materials for partner meetings and investment decisions
- Tracking industry statistics and maintaining internal databases such as venture capital financing and trends, deal flow statistics, etc.
What You Must Bring
- MBA degree from top tier program with superior academic performance
- Technical undergraduate degree (engineering, math, science, and/or computer science)
- Candidate has experience analyzing various companies/business problems as a professional at a investment bank/consulting firm for a minimum of one year
- Work experience for a minimum of one year in a startup/technology company, with preference for product related roles.
- Ability to interpret a multitude of sources and devise clear concise recommendations
- Market research experience including competitive market mapping, trend analysis and TAM/SAM/SOM analysis.
- Proactive self-starter with strong work ethic
- Confident financial modeler
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Natural analytical ability
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong desire to work in deal generation/sourcing investment environment and help early stage companies grow
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to interact professionally with company founders and executives
- Product experience at a tech company or a start-up is preferred
Please note that there is no relocation budget or visa sponsorship budget available for this role. However, currently, we are working from home till 2021 so everyone is able to work remotely if working within 3 hour time difference from PST until everyone is ready to return to the office.
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 country you will work from.
Bearing - 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.
Bearing - Sr DevOps Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are
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.
About AI Fund:
Bearing 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.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented DevOps Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for leading scaling efforts for our technology platform. 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.
What You Must Bring:
• Must have 2-5 years of experience working in platform engineering, software product deployment, and API integration
• Must have hands-on experience in developing modern-software-deployment-flow. The candidate should have expert level knowledge of tools such as Jenkins, Docker, GitHub and Kubernetes
• Must have hands-on experience managing cloud-based work environment and storage system such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
•Must have hands-on experience in building commercial-grade APIs. The candidate should have expert level knowledge in either OpenAPI or GRPC, and understand how to scale API from proof of concept (POC) to handle substantial traffic
• Must have hands-on experience in building development, testing, and deployment flow. The ideal candidate should be able to independently create a continuous integration system that automates unit-testing, integration-testing, and pre-deployment testing
• Must have a good understanding of service-based software architecture. Having hands-on experience in building microservices is a big plus
• Must be able to write clean and efficient code. Familiarity with object-oriented programming is a big plus
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.
Chief Executive Officer Palo Alto, CA
About AI Fund:
AI Fund is a VC firm 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 firm is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, and powered by 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.
About PowerBlox:
Powerblox is a stealth enterprise startup backed by AI Fund that uses artificial intelligence to optimize your webinar experience.
What We Seek:
This is an opportunity to get involved with a startup at its earliest stages that has already been validated and has a prototype in place. We are looking for a product focused CEO who desires to get their feet wet running a startup. We are looking for a passionate entrepreneur who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
What You Will be Doing:
- The CEO will be in charge of launching the product and ensuring that the portfolio company is hitting its milestones towards its next funding.
- Working in concert with General Partner to deliver on critical milestones
- Recruiting key members of the operational team
- Mapping out direction of the road map and determining product requirements
- Securing and negotiating strategic partnerships
- Ensuring customer satisfaction with early, key customers so that they are referenceable.
- Scaling the business, especially with regards to sales and marketing
- Responsible overall success of the product and business
What You Must Bring:
- Strong experience in developing SaaS products and/or building communities.
- Experience in the marketing tools or sales enablement markets.
- Previous leadership and management experience.
- The ability to think strategically and the foresight to think about problems ahead of time.
- Experience with doing customer outreach, understanding market needs, and driving towards product market fit.
- Experience fundraising.
- Nice to Have previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
Is Nice if you Have:
- MBA from top university preferred.
- Technical background, preferably with experience working in artificial intelligence.
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 is 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.
Data Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Job Description:
We are looking for experienced data engineers for one of our portfolio companies. You will use various methods to transform raw data into useful data systems. For example, you’ll create algorithms and conduct statistical analysis. Overall, you’ll strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals.
To succeed in this data engineering position, you should have strong analytical skills and the ability to combine data from different sources. Data engineer skills also include familiarity with several programming languages and knowledge of learning machine methods.
If you are detail-oriented, with excellent organizational skills and experience in this field, we’d like to hear from you.
What You Will be Doing:
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture across multiple data sources, including licensed and scraped data
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional needs of AI/ML engineers and front-end engineers
- Design and develop optimal data processing techniques: automating manual processes, data delivery, data validation and data augmentation
- Develop any necessary ETL processes to optimize analysis and performance
- Manage analytics tools that provide actionable insights into usage, customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
- Architect and implement new features from scratch, partnering with our AI/ML engineers to identify data sources, gaps and dependencies
- Identify bugs and performance issues across the stack, including performance monitoring and testing tools to ensure data integrity and quality user experience
- Build a highly scalable infrastructure using SQL and AWS big data technologies
- Keep our data secure and compliant with international data handling rules
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- Professional experience shipping high-quality, production-ready code
- Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, computer networks, databases, algorithms, object-oriented programming
- Experience in Python
- Experience with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript and Networking
- Experience in setting up data pipelines using relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra and MongoDB
- Experience with AWS cloud services, including S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
- Proven success manipulating, processing and extracting value from large heterogeneous datasets
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from websites using web crawling tools
- Experience with big data tools, including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Experience developing scalable RESTful APIs
- 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
- Excellent English language skills
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
Nice to Haves:
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from emails (eg. gmail)
- Understanding of AI/ML models
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with consumer applications and data handling
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations and best practices
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.
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 product and extremely results-driven in nature.
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.
Factored- Data Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
Factored (an AI Fund Portfolio company) was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Data Engineer to join our team. You will be called on for a wide range of responsibilities, from data aggregation, scraping, validation, transformation, quality and DevOps administration of both structured and unstructured datasets. Ideally, you will be experienced in optimizing data architecture, building data pipelines and wrangling data to suit the needs of our algorithms and application functionality. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be a self-starter with a high degree of initiative and accountability. You must be able to wear multiple hats and take on additional responsibility on our growing team.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture across multiple data sources, including licensed and scraped data.
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional needs of AI/ML engineers and front-end engineers.
- Design and develop optimal data processing techniques: automating manual processes, data delivery, data validation and data augmentation.
- Develop any necessary ETL processes to optimize analysis and performance.
- Manage analytics tools that provide actionable insights into usage, customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
- Design and develop a RESTful API to enable programmatic integration to other SaaS systems.
- Architect and implement new features from scratch, partnering with our AI/ML engineers to identify data sources, gaps and dependencies.
- Identify bugs and performance issues across the stack, including performance monitoring and testing tools to ensure data integrity and quality user experience.
- Build a highly scalable infrastructure using SQL and AWS big data technologies.
- Keep our data secure and compliant with international data handling rules.
What You Must Bring:
- 3+ Professional experience shipping high-quality, production-ready code.
- Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, computer networks, databases, algorithms, object-oriented programming.
- Experience in Python.
- Experience in setting up data pipelines using relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Experience with AWS cloud services, including S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
- Proven success manipulating, processing and extracting value from large heterogeneous datasets.
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from websites using web crawling tools.
- Experience with big data tools, including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Experience developing scalable RESTful APIs.
- Expertise with version control systems, such as Git.
- Excellent english communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people.
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
Nice To Have
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus.
- Experience with design of ETLs using Apache Airflow.
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from Google Analytics or Twitter.
- Understanding of AI/ML models.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience with consumer applications and data handling.
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations and best practices.
- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in computer science.
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 Factored, 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.
Factored- DevOps Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
Factored (an AI Fund Portfolio company) was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented DevOps Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for leading scaling efforts for internal projects, as well as to work side by side with engineers at scaling and deploying different applications at different development stages. You will not only lead best practices for deployment but also you will help with the architecture design of projects from the very first moment. 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.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Working with several engineering teams and to lead scaling efforts for internal and external (customer) facing projects.
- Ensuring the use of best practices to deploy and maintain internal and external projects, as well as actively participating in defining politics to keep internal and external infrastructure/data safe and production ready.
What You Must Bring:
- Must have 2-5 years of experience working in platform engineering, software product deployment, and API integration.
- Must have hands-on experience in developing modern-software-deployment-flow. The candidate should have expert level knowledge of tools such as Jenkins, Docker, GitHub and Kubernetes.
- Must have hands-on experience managing cloud-based work environments and storage systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Must have hands-on experience in building commercial-grade APIs.
- The candidate should understand how to scale API from proof of concept (POC) to handle substantial traffic.
- Must have hands-on experience in building development, testing, and deployment flow.
- The ideal candidate should be able to independently create a continuous integration system that automates unit-testing, integration-testing, and pre-deployment testing.
- Must have a good understanding of service-based software architecture. Having hands-on experience in building microservices is a big plus.
- Must be able to write clean and efficient code, as well as to have a deep understanding of CI/CD.
- Strong communication skills in English.
Nice To Have:
- Experience shipping Machine Learning products.
- Experience working with startups from an early stage.
- Familiarity with object-oriented programming is a big 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 Factored, 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.
Factored- FrontEnd Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
Factored (an AI Fund Portfolio company) was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We seek ambitious and self-motivated Front End developers to join our core engineering team to keep up with customer demand. The ideal teammate is an individual looking to take part in the deployment part of our ML Lifecycle developing WebApps and UIs to meet customers needs and help other talented Machine Learning Engineers develop production ready and user facing ML models. 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.
What You Will Be Doing:
- The development of customer facing WebApps. This will require close collaboration with both the engineering and product teams of our several customers as well as with our internal teams.
- Owning the front-end development experience. You will also need to design and code efficient and reusable front-end modules and systems that support scale.
- Ensure a high quality user experience through high quality code in order to keep up with customer expectations and requests.
What You Must Bring:
- 3+ years professional experience shipping front-end code.
- Strong computer science foundations.
- Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/jQuery.
- Experience with ReactJS, Vue.js or Angular.
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and working with JSON formatUnderstanding 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 environmentExperience with Agile development.
Nice To Have:
- Graphic design skills.
- Experience with Machine Learning products.
- Exposure to any backend framework.
Characteristics:
- Passion for AI/ML applications - we are excited to make an impact by bringing AI use in industry to the next level, and we hope you share our passion.
- 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 Factored, 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.
Factored- Senior Software Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
Factored (an AI Fund Portfolio company) was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We seek ambitious and self-motivated Software Engineers to join our core engineering team to keep up with customer demand. The ideal teammate is an individual looking to take part in the deployment part of our ML Lifecycle developing SW/APIs to meet customers needs and help other talented Machine Learning Engineers develop production ready ML models.
What you will be doing:
- Working with Machine Learning Engineers and several clients to develop and maintain backend applications and handle 3rd party API backend integrations.
- Designing and coding highly-scalable machine learning models and the backend applications to deliver them to the final user.
- Make architectural contributions and decisions to improve the reliability of and maintainability of the clients codebase.
- Design and implement internal tools to improve and accelerate the ML Lifecycle process.
- Following agile processes with a focus on delivering production-ready testable code in small iterations.
What You Must Bring:
- 5+ years professional experience shipping production-ready code.
- Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks, databases.
- Experience building backend/REST/SW applications using any of these languages: Python (DJango, Flask), JavaScript(NodeJS), Java , Ruby on Rails or C/C++.
- Experience with Relational or Non relational Database Engines such as PostgreSQL, SQLite , MongoDB.
- Expertise with version control systems, such as Git.
- Excellent english 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/Exposure with Amazon AWS and containerization technologies.
- Experience with Agile development .
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment.
- Proven track record of collaboration with a variety of decision-makers to drive impact.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience shipping Machine Learning products.
- Experience/Familiarity with single page applications (React, Angular or Vue).
- Experience working with startups from an early stage.
- Experience with ETL pipelines and technologies, such as: Apache Airflow and similar.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Basic understanding of Machine Learning models.
- Demonstrated knowledge of distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Spark.
- Demonstrated experience with distributed database systems.
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus.
Characteristics:
- Passion for AI/ML applications: we are excited to make an impact by bringing AI use in industry to the next level, and we hope you share our passion.
- 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 Factored, 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.
Factored- Software Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
What you will be doing:
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a rapidly growing startup with a dynamic team. You will be building Full Stack applications to serve and escalate cutting-edge AI/ML models across different industries.
We seek ambitious and self-motivated Software Engineers to join our core engineering team to keep up with customer demand. The ideal teammate is an individual looking to take part in the deployment part of our ML Lifecycle, developing SW/APIs to meet customers needs and help other talented Machine Learning Engineers develop production ready ML models.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Working with Machine Learning Engineers and several clients to develop and maintain backend applications and handle 3rd party API backend integrations.
- Coding highly-scalable machine learning models and the backend applications to deliver them to the final user.
- Implement internal tools to improve and accelerate the ML Lifecycle process.
- Feeling comfortable with agile processes focused on delivering production-ready testable code in small iterations.
What You Must Bring:
- 2+ years professional experience shipping production-ready code.
- Broad and solid CS foundation knowledge, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks and databases.
- Experience building backend/REST/SW applications using any of these languages: Python (DJango, Flask), JavaScript(NodeJS), Java , Ruby on Rails or C/C++.
- Experience with Relational or Non relational Database Engines such as PostgreSQL, SQLite or MongoDB.
- Experience with Git.
- Strong ability to convert ideas to running code.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
Nice To Have:
- Machine Learning knowledge.
- Familiarity with Serverless Computing.
- Familiarity with single page applications (React, Angular or Vue).
- Bachelor/MSc degree in CS or related technical field.
Characteristics:
- Passion for AI/ML applications: we are excited to make an impact by bringing AI use in industry to the next level, and we hope you share our passion.
- 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 Factored, 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.
Filtered.ai - Enterprise Account Executive United States
About Filtered.ai
We’re building the next generation of hiring tools that enable companies of all sizes to dramatically reduce the effort and time it takes to make technical hires. We are a Boston-based, VC-backed startup that is aggressively expanding our team following our recent funding. We count Coca-Cola, Lyft, and many other household name brands as customers, and we are seeing record growth as the pandemic has dramatically increased demand for our product.
About the role
You. Close. Business. You possess a deep understanding of the value Filtered can bring to customers and are excited to bring that to the audience that will benefit the most from our platform. You pride yourself on your ability to effectively build relationships, navigate complex Enterprises, and drive focused short-term deals that lead to big long-term relationships. You are excited to help build the sales machine at a rapidly growing startup and are eager to help the world’s top brands fix technical hiring.
You Will:
- Build Filtered’s customer base by pursuing and closing a steady stream of leads provided to you by our lead gen team
- Actively and accurately manage your pipeline and develop a strategy for long-term sustained success
- Work effectively in a team environment and support the success of your peers
- Provide guidance and support to new Account Executives and team members
- Directly influence the direction of our product and our go to market strategy
You:
- Have a well-developed sales framework that you can apply to Filtered while also embracing opportunities to learn and improve
- Are excited, motivated, and inspired by exceeding goals
- Aren’t afraid to hear no and embrace failure as an opportunity to improve
- Have a structured, disciplined approach to work, with attention to detail
- Are flexible and comfortable adjusting to changing priorities over time
- Enjoy challenging and thought-provoking work and have a strong desire to learn and progress
- Are thoughtful, creative, engaging, and energetic
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills
Founder-In-Residence Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are:
AI Fund is a VC firm 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 firm is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, and powered by 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.
About StepWise:
StepWise is a stealth enterprise startup that utilizes modern-day media to improve the way industries and product companies communicate to their relevant constituents.
What We Seek:
This is an opportunity to get involved with a startup at its earliest stages that has already been validated and built. We are looking for either a product leader who desires to get their feet wet running a startup or someone we bring on as the CEO from the get go.
We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs 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 be in charge of launching the product and ensuring that the portfolio company is hitting its milestones towards its next funding.
- Working in concert with General Partner to deliver on critical milestones
- Recruiting key members of the operational team
- Mapping out direction of the road map and determining product requirements
- Securing and negotiating strategic partnerships
- Ensuring customer satisfaction with early, key customers so that they are referenceable.
- Scaling the business, especially with regards to sales and marketing
- Responsible overall success of the product and business
- Although it is not required, we are interested in candidates that can scale to be the CEO. Under this role, you will additionally be responsible for building the company, recruiting great people, and raising capital.
What You Must Bring:
- Strong experience in developing SaaS products and/or building communities.
- Experience in the marketing tools or sales enablement markets.
- Previous leadership and management experience.
- The ability to think strategically and the foresight to think about problems ahead of time.
- Experience with doing customer outreach, understanding market needs, and driving towards product market fit.
- Experience fundraising.
- Nice to Have previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
- MBA from top university preferred.
- Technical background, preferably with experience working in artificial intelligence.
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 - Machine Learning Instructor United States
Who We Are
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.
What You Will be Doing:
The Instructor will work closely with the Curriculum Development Director at FourthBrain to leverage their technical skills in ML to manage a cohort of students in a part-time ML training program. The instructor is responsible for facilitating live class sessions, preparing class materials, and providing feedback and guidance to each student. Your experience as an educator, technical skills in the AI space, and ability to communicate will all be critical for this role. Deliver live class session(s) for a total of 5-6 hours each week. These sessions will be on the weekends or evenings (schedule is variable by cohort, but consistent throughout the entire program)Manage the digital classroom, including releasing curriculum materials and assignments on a weekly basisEvaluate and grade assignmentsProvide regular guidance and feedback on capstone projectsHold office hours (60-90 mins) a week, which could be on evenings and weekends, to assist students with their weekly work.Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules Partner with Curriculum Director on updates and modifications to curriculum and projectsPartner with Career Education to identify key areas of development
What You Will Be Doing:
- Deliver live class session(s) for a total of 5-6 hours each week. These sessions will be on the weekends or evenings (schedule is variable by cohort, but consistent throughout the entire program)
- Manage the digital classroom, including releasing curriculum materials and assignments on a weekly basis
- Evaluate and grade assignments
- Provide regular guidance and feedback on capstone projects
- Hold office hours (60-90 mins) a week, which could be on evenings and weekends, to assist students with their weekly work
- Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules
- Partner with Curriculum Director on updates and modifications to curriculum and projects
- Partner with Career Education to identify key areas of development
What You Must Bring:
- Technical background in machine learning, math and programming
- Expert level proficiency in using Machine learning packages for Python; experience with Tensorflow
- Experience with instructional design best practices as well as experience designing and teaching technical courses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelors in STEM / AI / CS, or equivalent industry experience in areas like software development, machine learning or data science.
It's Nice if You Have:
- Masters in AI, CS or related field
- Previous experience as an instructor or lecturer in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics or similar
- Professional experience in AI or ML roles
- Interest in student engagement, motivation, and teaching
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 and FourthBrain, 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 and FourthBrain believe 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 - Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are
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 Teaching Assistant will work closely with the Curriculum Development Director at FourthBrain to leverage their technical skills in ML to create quizzes and assignments for existing content, as well as prepare supplemental materials to improve the student learning experience. The TA will be supporting students during live online classes and be available for virtual office hours. 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:
- Create quizzes, weekly assignments for core machine learning concepts.
- Evaluate and grade quizzes and projects
- Hold office hours (60-90 mins) a week, which could be on evenings and weekends to assist students with their weekly work.
- Troubleshoot with students on their projects and help debug.
- Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules
- Manage data to drive decisions. Track & implement necessary adjustments to the program
- Act as the escalation point for students when they have concerns & suggestions and serve as a mediator
- Advocate for students with empathy. Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Deliver instruction to test curriculum for early cohorts
What You Must Bring:
- Technical background in math and programming to develop machine learning assessments and curriculum.
- Experience with instructional design best practices as well as experience designing and teaching technical courses.
- Capability to digest github codebases and create assignment projects from them.
- Bachelors in STEM / AI / CS or equivalent industry experience in areas like software development, machine learning or data science.
It's Nice If You Have:
- Professional experience in project deployment life cycles OR academic experience with a capstone project with focus on deployment.
- Previous experience as an instructor or TA in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics or similar.
- Previous experience in building grading rubrics or in grading programming assignments.
- Interest in student motivation in online or flipped classroom formats.
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 & FourthBrain, 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.
Full Stack Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Job Description:
We are looking for a Full Stack Engineers to produce scalable software solutions for one of our portfolio companies. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.
What You Will be Doing:
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
- Write technical documentation
- Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
- Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
- Familiarity with common stacks
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Knowledge of multiple object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python) and multiple frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
- Excellent English language skills
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
Nice to Haves:
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
- Understanding of AI/ML models
- Understanding of big data tools, including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with consumer applications and data handling
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations and best practices
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.
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 product and extremely results-driven in nature.
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.
Investment Partner 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 an early stage venture fund founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
AI Fund is looking for a partner to add to our portfolio of companies and aid the growth of existing portfolios. We are looking for not just an investor but someone who is passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed. You will be responsible for screening ideas, making investments and providing strategic guidance to multiple companies, ranging from pre-seed to Series A funded companies. Especially in the earlier stages, you will be playing a very active role in shaping the company all the way from inception up to the company being ready for a Series A round.
Together, let’s build great companies that will move humanity forward.
What You Will be Doing
- Provide strategic guidance to our portfolio companies and help them pivot or conduct change management as necessary. Influence companies to a positive outcome in their early development.
- Be the single point of contact on behalf of AIF to help companies through the multiple stages of startup building stages of startup creation and ensure milestones are met and on track.
- Serve as a board member or observer.
- Executive recruiting and act as a partner to portfolio company management for key talent efforts.
- As part of AI Fund’s leadership team, provide general guidance over the fund.
- You will be responsible for building relationships and prospecting to bring in new opportunities.
What You Must Bring
- Early stage (pre-seed, seed, Series A) venture investment experience.
- Early stage tech startup executive experience, in at least 2 (and preferably more) VC backed companies. You should have been part of the startup while it was younger than Series A.
- Early stage startup strategy experience
- Operating executive experience. Must specifically be good at: 1) Evaluating talent. (To help the company build its executive team.); 2) Sound business and product judgement (to help the company navigate toward product market fit).
- Ability and experience-base to coach entrepreneurs.
- Ability to communicate clearly and influence without authority.
- Previous board experience and/or experience formally advising startups
- Previous experience as a product executive starting from pre-product phase to full launch of product and beyond a plus.
- Strong network in the entrepreneur community a plus.
We hope that you will fit in with our values!
- Teamwork: We work together to achieve goals as a team. We care for and watch out for each other. We share responsibilities as needed, even when it falls outside of our day-to-day functions.
- Trust: We trust each other to do their job to the best of their ability and assume positive intent. We value an environment where mistakes are viewed as opportunities to learn and improve.
- Transparency: We actively listen with humility and respect, understand different perspectives, and care about each other’s growth. We are candid, honest, and constructive in our communications with anyone we encounter.
- Execution-Oriented: We identify the highest value work to be done and then move efficiently and diligently to complete that work. Our attitudes and behaviors reflect our unwavering commitment to both productivity and excellence.
- Integrity: We are responsible and honest. We uphold high moral standards in everything we do. We will not compromise our principles for short-term rewards.
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 country you will work from.
Younger.ai - Cofounder/Head of Product California
About Us
Younger.ai is a D2C health & wellness company with an ambitious mission: to be the most-trusted destination for the products and information that help people live more vibrant, longer lives.
Younger.ai will offer a personalized, curated selection of the best nutritional supplements and healthy longevity products available, all of which are backed by meaningful scientific evidence of their ability to affect both healthspan and lifespan.
Our initial backing is through AI Fund, which was founded by a team of AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists who collaborate with entrepreneurs to solve big challenges using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.
Role Overview
As Co-Founder/Product Leader, you will be a partner to the CEO - yin to their yang (or vice-versa), comfortable working in a fast-paced, seed-stage environment as both a doer and strategist.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Define and Launch the Initial MVP
- Develop a category-defining digital experience for customers that supports personalized nutritional supplement eCommerce. The initial emphasis will be on the pre-purchase, ‘prescriptive’ and ‘conversion’ segment of the customer journey, but will rapidly require a post-purchase, ‘adherence’ or ‘retention’ segment of the customer journey.
Product Management
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
- Own the user experience and drive customer success through onboarding, engagement tactics, customer touch points and other methods.
- Lead product development, user experience research, roadmap development, and vendor research and selection.
- Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members.
- Help inform our scientific and lifestyle content roadmap to improve customer outcomes.
- Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.
- Manage prioritization of product features, bug fixes, and other projects.
Company Leadership
- Co-lead w/ CEO in creating a customer-obsessed culture through research, testing and internal feedback loops.
- Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.
What We’re Looking For In Candidates:
- 10+ years experience in a digital consumer product management role.
- 3+ years recent experience in a startup environment in a company that deeply values design and experience.
- Experience building a product from zero to launch and then scaling to tens of thousands.
- Strong technical background.
- A keen instinct for UX and UI.
- Experience developing the long-term strategy for technology platforms that translate into an achievable roadmap.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices.
- Ideally based in Southern California (San Diego), though we are open to remote.
Exceptional Candidates Will Have:
- Experience with online/digitally-delivered consumer healthcare, fitness, and/or wellness. Working knowledge of HIPAA a plus.
- Direct professional or user/customer experience with self-improvement brands, whether mental, physical, spiritual, financial, emotional.