Co-Founder & CTO

Full-time · On-site · Executive

  • San Francisco · CA
  • Posted 5 h ago
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Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI creative technology company as an equal, full-time co-founder and CTO. You will set the technical and research direction and build a platform that learns to evaluate and improve creative work using real-world feedback.

What You'll Do

  • Own the technical and research strategy, evolving existing workflows into a proprietary training and evaluation platform.

  • Build data infrastructure connecting creative briefs, submissions, generation traces, decisions, critiques, and campaign outcomes.

  • Develop systems to evaluate, rank, critique, generate, and improve creative work.

  • Design allocation policies that direct campaign budgets while informing data collection.

  • Make technical decisions about frontier models, fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, and original research.

  • Build production infrastructure for creator workflows, campaigns, experimentation, training, and inference.

  • Set standards for data quality, consent, privacy, measurement, and model evaluation.

  • Recruit and lead the initial engineering and research team, and work directly with creators and brands.

What We're Looking For

  • Substantial hands-on experience in research or post-training at a leading AI lab or comparable research organization, including training agents or working with reinforcement learning.

  • Practical experience building preference or reward models, including RLHF, ranking subjective outputs, or evaluation systems.

  • Experience shipping products or features used by people, plus building production ML infrastructure.

  • Background in causal inference on observational data, including selection bias, off-policy or counterfactual evaluation, and adaptive experimentation.

  • Experience with ads, marketplace, recommender, or ranking systems tied to business outcomes, and learning from noisy, delayed, or subjective feedback.

  • Experience owning model, evaluation, or infrastructure programs end to end and recruiting and leading technical teams.

  • Production experience with bandits or online experimentation, multimodal ML, agents, planning, or latent-variable modeling is valuable.

  • Willingness to commit full-time to an early-stage co-founder role, with significant responsibility and uncertainty.

Compensation & Benefits

Equity is approximately 28% as an equal co-founder. Cash compensation is discussed based on circumstances and fit. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

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