Chief AI Officer (IC Role)

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Nova

Nova

Nova is the elite global network for the top 3% of high potentials, connecting them with premier professional opportunities worldwide.

Professional Services
1K-5K
Founded 2020

Description

  • Serve as the technical AI lead across portfolio companies and work directly with founders and engineers to architect and build AI-native products.
  • Translate business and product concepts into technical AI roadmaps using first-principles thinking.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on machine learning and generative AI models across vision, text, and multi-modal use cases.
  • Evaluate and integrate open-source models, fine-tune foundation models, and design custom training pipelines when needed.
  • Stay current on frontier AI advancements and share insights that shape company bets and technical decisions.
  • Influence the direction of multiple early-stage startups through technical leadership and hands-on execution.
  • Potentially build and lead a team as the ventures scale.

Requirements

  • PhD, or work toward a PhD, in computer science, AI, or a related field.
  • 2–8 years of industry experience.
  • Experience building and shipping ML systems, ideally at startups or modern tech-forward companies.
  • Strong familiarity with modern AI tooling and infrastructure such as PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, LangChain, and Ray.
  • Experience with both traditional ML and generative AI, including LLMs, diffusion models, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning.
  • Ability to think like a founder and solve problems from first principles.
  • Based on the East Coast.
  • Experience training models in a hands-on capacity is strongly aligned with the role.
  • Potential interest and readiness to grow into team leadership as the portfolio scales.

Benefits

  • Remote, full-time position.
  • Opportunity to work across a portfolio of category-defining AI startups.
  • Chance to shape AI strategy and technical direction at the venture-studio level.
  • Potential to build and lead a team as the companies grow.

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