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About the Role

On the (stealth co) team, you'll own the responsibility of knowing everything there is to know about the data and RLaaS industry, running frontier ML experiments, and figuring out how to be in the right rooms and do research into areas that don't exist on the internet yet. Your work might include:

• Post-training frontier text-based reasoning models, world models, and/or vision language action models (and learning how to do so in incredibly short periods of time, in line with SOTA RL research)
• Identifying, diligencing, and actioning upon investment opportunities (related to data and RL)
• Finding, working with, and co-developing work (everything from product announcements, research papers, and code) with researchers and data companies
• Educating non-technical customers, stakeholders, and business-owners on frontier AI and designing product incentives for frontier AI deployment and data collection
• Understanding and writing about compute, private credit, and equity financing economics as it relates to highly concentrated AI infrastructure companies

Agency is key. You can learn anything from an afternoon with Claude, given the right questions. You can meet with anyone given the right identification of priorities and motivations. You can find a way to learn anything, given the right people and credit card to go find them.

I am looking for someone with so much agency, they’ll probably outgrow this role. Its a skillset I know to be extremely useful but hard to describe to be a top-line founder/venture investor here in SF, especially as venture firms increasingly veer away from hiring traditional investor profiles and an AI-native education through internships is increasingly rare.

You’ll partner closely with me and a few other heavyweights in the data/rlaas industry this summer to do unorthodox things in the space to help out companies at the frontier of improving model capabilities from the training and data side. You will work with the most technical researchers at frontier labs and neolabs, to those operating unsophisticated services businesses in parts of the country. You will be entrusted with extremely confidential information in a very opaque industry, and also be expected to gather similarly opaque information.

We do not profess to be looking for a certain profile, but will posit that the most likely profile to fit such characteristics are:

• Early career professionals (0-3 years of experience) or current students with unorthodox trajectories or proof of exceptionalism without necessarily commensurate career advancement
• A personal and work lifestyle that often bleeds together, or is the same in most regards
• Someone able to balance their emotional/physical health well with a job that isn’t necessarily 996 in spirit, but will often have demands that cross into being so
• Someone who is truly well and able to learn anything quickly, and would likely be described as peers as extremely AI-native
• Someone who cares deeply about reputation, integrity, and anti-zero sum behavior

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