VP of AI (Xora Portfolio Company)

3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Xora Innovation

Xora Innovation

Xora Innovation is a deep science investor accelerating disruptive ventures at Seed and Series A stages.

Capital Markets
1-10

Description

  • Build and manage the AI organization while contributing hands-on technical work.
  • Recruit, mentor, and lead a world-class AI team.
  • Design and develop intelligence layers that enable autonomous correction and decision-making in manufacturing systems.
  • Integrate physics-based models, machine telemetry, sensor data, CNC programs, and manufacturing context into AI systems.
  • Build AI systems that interpret machining intent from G-code and account for operator and CAM variability.
  • Develop feedback loops that combine AI reasoning with physics-based models and sensor data to improve performance over time.
  • Create scalable data infrastructure to capture manufacturing intelligence across machines, parts, tools, materials, and production environments.
  • Define simulation and validation environments for training, testing, and scaling autonomous correction models.
  • Contribute to company strategy, technology roadmaps, business roadmaps, and project plans with functional leaders.
  • Write code, review architecture, and build prototypes alongside the team.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in AI, software engineering, machine learning architecture, robotics, intelligent systems, or complex technical platforms.
  • Proven experience building and managing an AI organization while remaining hands-on with technical work.
  • Direct experience with robotics, autonomous systems, industrial systems, physics-informed machine learning, reinforcement learning, control systems, simulation, digital twins, or real-world telemetry.
  • Deep experience designing and building production-grade AI, ML, data, or software infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Exceptional hands-on coding skills and experience with data pipelines, model orchestration, validation, feedback loops, and messy real-world data.
  • Strong, up-to-date understanding of optimization, statistical modeling, and system-level AI design.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Master’s or PhD in a related field is preferred.
  • Startup experience plus experience scaling product-focused AI teams at a major AI organization is preferred.
  • A track record of turning ambiguous, unsolved technical problems into reliable, working systems is preferred.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Mortgage Underwriter - Freelance AI Trainer

Mindrift.ai: Be the “I” in AI Internet Software & Services

Mindrift is seeking mortgage underwriting and loan origination professionals for project-based AI evaluation work focused on testing and improving mortgage-related AI outputs and compliance decisions.

12 hours, 10 minutes ago

Claims Processing Agent - Freelance AI Trainer

Mindrift.ai: Be the “I” in AI Internet Software & Services

Mindrift is seeking part-time project-based insurance and claims specialists to evaluate and improve AI systems for auto insurance decision-making, fraud detection, and subrogation testing.

12 hours, 10 minutes ago

Record Your Daily Routine & Get Paid - AI Training (Remote)

Toloka 251-1K Internet Software & Services

Project-based freelance opportunity with an AI training platform recording first-person videos of everyday household activities to help train AI systems and robots.

12 hours, 10 minutes ago

Freelance Agent Evaluation Engineer

Mindrift.ai: Be the “I” in AI Internet Software & Services

Mindrift is seeking a project-based software specialist to create realistic coding evaluation tasks and tests for AI agents in simulated development environments.

Docker FastAPI JavaScript Kafka PostgreSQL Python React Redis TypeScript
12 hours, 10 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers