About this role
What you'll do
- Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.
- Build prototypes that answer the open question about an idea. Start with the simplest design that works and add complexity only when the evidence calls for it.
- Put prototypes in front of users, run user research, and turn what you hear into clear market signal.
- Support partners and founders during the 12-week Build with hands-on product design and go-to-market work.
- Present what you learned to the team and to potential founders: what worked, what failed, and what they need to decide next.
- Stay at the frontier by reading papers, model cards, and technical writeups, and fold what you learn into the next build.
What you need
- Technical ability, a real understanding of frontier AI, and hands-on experience coding with AI.
- Experience as an engineer, product manager, product designer, or in go-to-market.
- Hands-on experience building GenAI applications, such as LLM calls, RAG, agentic workflows, and evals.
- Skill with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, directing them to ship working software while you own the quality bar.
- The judgment to write scrappy, disposable code for a fast prototype and clean code when it needs to last.
- Personal experience and interest in building, hacking, and prototyping.
- The ability to communicate with rigor and back your views with analysis.
- A STEM or research degree from a top research university, or an equivalent background where you've built the same rigor.
Who this is for
- Someone with real intellectual range who gets up to speed on a new space quickly and makes everyone around them smarter about it.
- A builder who ships MVPs fast and still builds on weekends because staying at the frontier is what they'd do anyway.
Long-term incentives, including carried interest and virtual shares in AI Fund.