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Applied Data Scientist - Machine LearningMedellín, Antioquia
Artificial intelligence is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same and will improve human life. AI Fund is a new Artificial Intelligence organization that will focus on building transformative AI companies from the ground up. This is a chance for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI organization.
Our team is growing fast, and we are looking for a strong applied data scientist to lead the development of new assessment methods and recommendation algorithms. In this role, you will work alongside senior engineers as well as product managers, to build the future of Machine Learning assessment and extract meaningful data about our new products.
Here’s what you will do:
-Build skill-based adaptive assessments and analyze the effectiveness of the items.
-Build anti-cheating algorithms.
-Work with the full-stack software engineers to build efficient data pipelines, continuous data reporting and improve our recommendation engine.
-Create high-quality machine learning, deep learning, software engineering and algorithm questions to evaluate candidates.
Here’s the background you must have:
-General coding. You should be able to code non-trivial functions in object-oriented programming, such as popular sorting or search algorithms.
-Mathematics (including probabilities and statistics.) You should be able to use mathematical notation and linear algebra (matrix/vector operations, dot products, etc.), and understand basic probability theory (distributions, independence, density functions, etc.) as well as statistics (mean, variance, median, quantiles, co-variance, etc.)
-Machine learning. You should be able to understand major machine learning methods. Completion of Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera is sufficient to meet this criteria.
-Implementation. You should have prior experience taking a dataset, cleaning it if necessary, analyzing it statistically and applying a learning algorithm to it to get a result.
-Strong written and oral communication in English.
The following would also be helpful, but isn't required:
-A degree in computer science, statistics, operations research, mathematics, or in a specific discipline including educational measurement, workforce readiness and skills development is a big plus.
-Experience with educational research, specially with assessments, is a big plus.
What you get working with us
-Being part of a world-class technical team working alongside with offices in different parts of the world.
-The opportunity to consolidate a quickly growing startup and lead projects.
-Access to state of the art infrastructure and technology.
-Our company is compromised with the professional growth of our team. By working with us, you will have access to top-level training, weekly technical reading groups lead by Andrew Ng and other senior engineers, and the opportunity to try high impact ideas.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
-Strong work ethic. All of us believe in our work’s ability to change human lives, and consequently work not just smart, but also hard.
-Growth mindset. We are eager to teach you new skills and invest in your continual development. But learning is hard work, so this is something we hope you’ll want to do.
-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 like scheduling to high level recruiting strategy.
This is a full-time position based in Medellin, Colombia.
Data EngineerMedellín, Antioquia
The Data Engineer will work with our engineering team to execute on our first several Proof of Concepts to create timely, fuel-efficient routes for ships. You will be working closely with the team to quickly execute and iterate on the product vision You will play an integral role at a company at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping, the industry enabling our global economy.
Performance Objectives
API and data pipeline. You will be responsible for integrating the product with a weather API in order to estimate routes. You will build out the data pipeline, ensuring we can make route suggestions prior to a voyage by incorporating the latest sensor information from a ship as well as weather projections from the API. You will also incorporate data streams from the ship, market, and in order to make dynamic adjustments while the ship is on its route.
Integration and information development. You will be responsible for technically integrating the product into our partners’ operations as necessary. This could include ensuring the product interoperates with related fuel-saving products or building dashboards to convey information in a comprehensible way to stakeholders. Over time, this integration will become more complex and may include exploring integration of the algorithm into ECDIS, the vessel’s central console, as the product moves from on-shore to on-ship.
Support development of AI and simulation model. In addition to Python proficiency and a demonstrable ability to write and maintain medium-sized software codebases, you will be responsible for working with the lead MLE to apply specific technologies (anomaly detection, supervised learning, CNN/RNN architectures, preprocessing steps, what type of data and labels to collect) in accordance with the design of the overall AI system architecture. Once some parts of a playbook for analyzing and integrating a customer’s data, you may take the lead in applying it the system to new vessels and routes. Strong communication skills. You are expected to be able to communicate engineering efforts and issues to the engineering lead (and oftentimes, the business lead) and work with them to help address 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 an engineering background. You will likely join meetings with our partners and correspond with their engineering teams, and may also travel to our partner offices to help with implementation.
(Bonus) Experience with naval architecture or mechanical engineering basics. Understanding the physical nature and operations of the ship and its engine may be critical to estimating its performance under a variety of circumstances. Our customers want to see that we are integrating naval architecture concepts in our engineering work, something that will also help with explainability. Experience with mechanical concepts will make this aspect easier to learn.
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 Medellín, Colombia.
Data Engineer, ShippingPalo Alto, CA
Dogpatch Shipping is an early-stage startup 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 Dogpatch Shipping, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-enabled product that solves the shipping industry’s biggest pain point and we already have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Data Engineer to add to our small team. This person will be responsible for leading our Data Engineering efforts in addition to guiding our initial Dev Ops efforts and contributing to the team’s Machine Learning model development.
Since this person will be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level they’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Primary responsibilities:
- Assess data quality coming from our partners, develop a data quality framework and work with our partners to optimize data quality moving forward
- Architect, develop and optimize ongoing ETL pipelines for that data. These pipelines must be built to support scale
- Help develop and validate complex machine learning models
- Design and implement overall data security strategy for Dogpatch Shipping Mentor/support other technical staff on data modeling and ETL related issues
- Effectively communicate data strategy with a wide range of stakeholders
- Help interview candidates and further build out the team
What You Must Bring:
- Must Haves:
- 3+ years of experience with data warehouse technical architecture
- 3+ years of experience with Python, Spark, ETL/Data engineering, Docker/Kubernetes, automation/devops in AWS
- S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, EKS, Sagemaker experience
- Experience setting up security for Redshift, S3, and EC2
- Basic knowledge in machine learning model development
- Entrepreneurial grit - You are ready to roll up your sleeves and willing to be scrappy in order to carry out plans under time and resource constraints
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering
- Nice to Haves:
- Experience with data visualization tools such as TableauKnowledge of the shipping industry or experience with logistics products
What We Have to Offer:
- Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
- 401(k) plan
- Untracked PTO including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s
- Variety of medical, dental and vision coverage to choose from
- Collegial atmosphere
- Direct and transparent communication styleInnovative environment
- Work with global AI Leaders
- Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
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.
FourthBrain - AI InstructorSan Juan, Puerto Rico
Who we are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About FourthBrain:
We have created a seed-stage startup training people from outside Silicon Valley for jobs in Machine Learning. Our team has collectively educated more people in machine learning than any other organization in the world, and we are now applying that expertise to a new type of startup. We will be starting with a blended-learning program in Puerto Rico and scaling quickly from there.
What you will be doing:
- Organize content for a world-class, blended-learning program to train existing engineers to become machine-learning engineers within six months.
- Assist a live training program with students and intervene to overcome any obstacles to 100% completion.
- Hold office hours daily to address trainees’ questions, lead several general workshops a week, and make immediate tweaks if students are not learning subjects at a fast enough pace.
- Lead technical interview process to recruit highly motivated candidates who can become extraordinary machine-learning engineers
You must have:
Proven ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a diverse audience:
You should be able to take concepts that are tricky, understand why they trip people up, and teach them to a group of people from a variety of different backgrounds.
Ability to identify and anticipate challenges of students going through a rigorous machine learning experience:
A key part of the job is ensuring students don’t get stuck in a very fast paced environment. You should sense and, ideally anticipate, when students might run into problems. This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to have prior teaching experience, but you should be able to form an accurate picture of the feelings and motivations of those around you.
Huge pride in theAmerican citizens of Puerto Rico and their future:
We intend for this program to play a large role in turning Puerto Rico into the world’s “AI Island.” You should be excited about helping to make this dream a reality.
It would be nice if you had:
Experience working on deployment as a machine learning engineer:
We are designing this program to place students in jobs as machine-learning engineers. Students will often have questions about how things work in practice, and having in the trenches experience will allow you to guide them easily.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
This is a full-time position based in San Juan, Puerto Rico and may also entail commuting from time to time to Mayaguez (also in Puerto Rico). You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
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 - Chief Executive OfficerPalo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About FourthBrain: From Silicon Valley to Puerto Rico, students now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. Our team, mostly from Stanford, has collectively educated more people in machine learning than any other organization in the world. The program is a blended-learning program that trains existing engineers to become machine-learning experts within six months.
What You Will be Doing:
- You’ll be the public face of the company, including leading setting up partnerships with local organizations and customers around the world
- You’ll set overall strategic direction and work relentlessly on execution.
- You’ll build and operate scalable training program, resulting in students being qualified for machine learning jobs upon graduation
- You’ll establish and oversee a recruiting engine that sources qualified candidates
- You’ll build and manage a world class team to scale all aspects of the company, in order to serve thousands of students
What You Must Bring:
- Must Haves:
- Previous management experience. You’ll be leading a team, and should have a strong track record of management.
- Experience in education or with the mission of expanding access to opportunities. We’d like candidates who are long term aligned with the mission of the company.
- Strategic thinking. You should be able to understand a complex environment and distill a clear and thoughtful direction. And you should be able to see the bigger picture, even when there are a lot of moving pieces.
- Previous startup experience or experience with small teams. You will be joining in a very early stage and should be comfortable with ambiguity. You’ll need to own scaling the company to having very extensive operations
- Nice to Haves:
- Connection to or experience with Puerto Rico would be helpful
- Ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds
- Experience working in international markets
- 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 ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
- Prioritize Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
- Execute fast Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
- Work hard Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
- Own the outcome Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
- Be helpful Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
- Keep improving Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
What We Have to Offer:
- Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
- 401(k) plan with match and immediate vesting after 6 months
- Untracked PTO including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s
- Variety of medical, dental and vision coverage to choose from
- Monthly education budget
- Commuter benefits
- Collegial atmosphere
- Direct and transparent communication style
- Empowered to be the best you can be
- Innovative environment
- Work with global AI Leaders
- Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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.
FourthBrain - Machine Learning BootcampSan Juan, Puerto Rico
Who we are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About FourthBrain:
We have created a seed-stage startup training people from outside Silicon Valley for jobs in Machine Learning. Our team has collectively educated more people in machine learning than any other organization in the world, and we are now applying that expertise to a new type of startup. We will be starting with a blended-learning program in Puerto Rico and scaling quickly from there.
About the ML Bootcamp:
The Machine Learning Bootcamp is a training program for engineers and data scientists seeking to become machine learning engineers. It is a six month, a full-time residential program in Puerto Rico, led by top machine-learning practitioners from Silicon Valley. By the end of the program, participants should have the skills necessary for a job as a junior machine learning engineer.
The curriculum mixes lectures, workshops, and Machine Learning Projects to make sure lessons are learned and applied by each participant. There will also be directed office hours to make sure each participant can keep up with the material.
What will you learn?
The steps of an end-to-end machine learning project. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Conducting a structured and deep literature review of a specific field.
- Strategizing your machine learning project end-to-end.
- Collecting, cleaning, labeling, and augmenting your own dataset.
- Training a model for a real-world application.
- Setting-up an efficient and organized experimentation process.
- Defining task-specific metrics to optimize in your experiments.
- Performing error analysis to improve your models.
- Deploying an AI product.
- Exposure to real-world problems that multiple AI teams in our community work on.
What you can expect:
- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and deploying end-to-end AI solutions through curated content and instructor-led workshops.
- Career mentorship and connections with teams aligned with your career aspirations.
- Meeting and share experiences with other engineers and data scientists.
- A very rigorous, full-time program that moves at a face pace
Who should apply to the Bootcamp?
Engineers and Data Scientists who have had at least 2 years experience in their respective fields and a basic grounding in coding from on the job experience. The most successful candidates will have experience with the following:
- Demonstrated strong coding from previous work experience or publications. This means you’re able to write a non-trivial program in Python, Java, or C++.
- Solid CS foundation (including but not limited to Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Database, etc.)
When does the Bootcamp start?
- It starts in fall 2019 and runs for six months.
- The Bootcamp is full-time and in-person. No remote option is available at this time.
Where is the bootcamp?
- The AI Bootcamp is based in Puerto Rico
- Anyone with U.S. work authorization may participate if selected.
How much does the Bootcamp cost?
- The program is paid by future employers.
- FourthBrain will provide onsite meals and necessary facilities for the entirety of the program.
Full Stack EngineerMedellín, Antioquia
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.
TalkTime is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong computer science fundamentals. The ideal candidate will thrive in an early development stage of a AI-powered customer contact software. As a Full Stack Engineer you will be responsible for building and delivering high quality infrastructure and support to the technical products that TalkTime is building. Our team is growing fast, and we are looking for a strong engineer to develop our AI products.
This FSE will work closely with the team to quickly execute and iterate on the product on it's path to product market fit.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Develop an agent-centric design, (for both backend and frontend) ensuring reliability and scalability to deliver the best experience for the TalkTime learner.
- Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness and scalability of the developed application.
- Design and develop internal tools to help our teams iterate quickly.
- Maintain a high-quality code base.
- Help develop backend infrastructure for grading tools and network training.
- Design UI interface and interaction flow.
- Tackle complex user interaction problems and build simple, logical, and effective solutions.
Here are the skills you should have:
- Broad and solid CS foundation knowledge, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks and databases
- 3+ years of software developmentProficiency in Python and NodeJS, React
- 3+ years of experience with general backend (Linux, Databases: Sequel, Application servers) and cloud infrastructure
- Proficient in AWS (ec2, VPC, batch, lambda, cloudwatch).
- Familiarity with Dockers and Jupyter Notebook
- Strong ability to convert ideas to running code.
The following would also be helpful, but isn't required:
- Machine Learning knowledge
- Familiarity with Serverless Computing
- Bachelor degree in CS or related technical field
By working with us you will
Be a part of a world-class technical team working alongside with offices in different parts of the world.Have the opportunity to consolidate a quickly growing startup.
Have access to state of the art infrastructure and technologyHave access to top-level training, weekly technical reading groups lead by Andrew Ng and other senior engineers, and the opportunity to try high impact ideas
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
This is a full-time position based in Medellin, Colombia.
Full Stack EngineerMedellín, Antioquia
AI is the new electricity. Millions of AI engineers will be required to transform industries with artificial intelligence and we’re building the education platform to train them. deeplearning.ai wants to provide a world-class education to people around the globe so that we can all benefit from an AI-powered future.
deeplearning.ai is looking for a Full Stack Engineer with strong computer science fundamentals with a passion for improving learner's experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in an early development stage of a leading educational environment focusing on Machine Learning related topics.
As a Full Stack Engineer you will be responsible for building and delivering high quality infrastructure and support to the technical content deeplearning.ai is providing. Our team is growing fast, and we are looking for a strong engineer to develop our educational products. In this role, you will work alongside a team of talented content creators as well as our outside partners, to build various layers of the infrastructure of world renowned AI driven education.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Develop a learner-centered design, (for both backend and frontend) ensuring reliability and scalability to deliver the best experience for the deeplearning.ai learner.
- Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness and scalability of the developed application
- Design and develop internal tools to help our teams iterate quickly.
- Maintain a high-quality code base.
- Help develop backend infrastructure for grading tools and network training.
- Design UI interface and interaction flow of the learner-centered design.
- Evaluate usability and visual consistency of existing designs
- Tackle complex user interaction problems and build simple, logical, and effective solutions
Here are the skills you should have:
- Broad and solid CS foundation knowledge, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks and databases
- 3+ years of software developmentProficiency in Python and NodeJS, React
- 3+ years of experience with general backend (Linux, Databases: Sequel, Application servers) and cloud infrastructure
- Proficient in AWS (ec2, VPC, batch, lambda, cloudwatch
- Familiarity with Dockers and Jupyter Notebook
- Strong ability to convert ideas to running code.
The following would also be helpful, but isn't required:
- Machine Learning knowledge
- Familiarity with Serverless Computing
- Bachelor degree in CS or related technical field
By working with us you will:
- Be a part of a world-class technical team working alongside with offices in different parts of the world.
- Have the opportunity to consolidate a quickly growing startup.
- Have access to state of the art infrastructure and technology.
- Have access to top-level training, weekly technical reading groups lead by Andrew Ng and other senior engineers, and the opportunity to try high impact ideas.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
- This is a full-time position based in Medellin, Colombia.
General ManagerMedellín, Antioquia
Artificial intelligence is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same and will improve human life. AI Fund Colombia, an office of the AI Fund, is a new Artificial Intelligence organization that will focus on building transformative AI companies from the ground up. This is a chance for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI organization.
We are looking for a General Manager with senior tech lead experience to be our on the ground lead for this office. In this role, you will drive our machine learning processes and drive the team’s development of new products. You will manage a team of engineers and operations specialists. You will also be the head of the entire AI Fund Colombia team and will coordinate building top-notch AI startups in multiple verticals. This role reports directly to AI Fund leadership in Palo Alto.
Here’s what you will do:
- Lead the build up of the AI Fund Colombia team. You’ll serve as head of the AI Fund Colombia office, overseeing all office operations. You’ll also lead our global recruiting efforts to build up the engineering team in Colombia, including being the public face of the office. You’ll be the steward of the office culture as the overall leader of the organization.
- Drive overall company strategy and culture. You’ll set prioritization for the office and ensure that things move forward day-to-day. The goal will be to establish an environment that is fast moving and effective. You’ll also work in coordination with the AI Fund US office on key initiatives.
- Mentor and manage the engineers to make AI Fund Colombia a world class place to develop. You’ll be a mentor to a group of strong, junior and intermediate engineers. You will be responsible for spreading knowledge to the team, including helping them develop insights for application design and iteration, and develop best debugging practices. And you’ll help lead the team towards better standards and practices for engineering projects.
- Join AI Fund’s global leadership team. You’ll be a member of AI Fund’s leadership team, and assist with overall AI Fund oversight and direction setting.
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
- Strong experience leading software engineering teams.
- Able to launch and lead new software projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Strong coding ability--you must be able to write clean, modular, efficient code.
- Prior experience building machine learning projects.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field is a plus.
Principles We Live By:
- Prioritize::Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
- Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
- Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
- Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
- Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
- Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
TalkTime - Chief Executive OfficerPalo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About TalkTime:
TalkTime 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.
What You Will be Doing:
- Lead the continued development of the TalkTime product and business at large
- Work closely with the product and engineering teams on continued ideation, market validation, and deployment of TalkTime’s software
- Develop an aggressive strategy and well defined growth roadmap that supports Talktime’s vision
- Interface directly with potential customers to deeply understand the market and customer pain points
- Sell. Close enterprise level business deals
- Build and maintain a high performing team and culture
What You Must Bring:
- Previous management experience. You’ll be leading a team, and should have a strong track record of management
- Experience with enterprise SaaS companies
- Direct experience and connections in the customer contact space
- Strategic thinking. You should be able to understand a complex environment and distill a clear and thoughtful direction. And you should be able to see the bigger picture, even when there are a lot of moving pieces
- Previous startup experience or experience with small teams. You will be joining in a very early stage and should be comfortable with ambiguity. You’ll need to own scaling the company to having very extensive operations
- Business Development experience. You must be able to build relationships and understand the pain points of the industry, bring in customers, and close deals for the company.
Nice to Haves
- Enterprise SaaS Experience - a strong plus
- Familiarity with ML based products - a strong plus
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture. AI Fund team members:
- Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
- Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
- Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
- Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
- Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
- Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
What We Have to Offer:
- Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
- 401(k) plan with match and immediate vesting after 6 months
- Untracked PTO including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s
- Variety of medical, dental and vision coverage to choose from
- Monthly education budget
- Commuter benefits
- Collegial atmosphere
- Direct and transparent communication style
- Empowered to be the best you can be
- Innovative environment
- Work with global AI Leaders
- Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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.