What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tech Lead position at Foundation Model Startup?
Our work
We are a well-capitalized stealth startup backed by tier-one VCs building a new type of spatial AI capable of solving general-purpose visual navigation for all autonomous robots. We innovate at the foundational layer of AI by training our own AI models, developing our own datasets, and invent new techniques to train these models published at top AI academic venues (e.g. ICML). We have commercial traction with some of the most well-capitalized robotics companies of the decade.
Our team
Our team is composed of AI pioneers and leaders from Google X, Google Brain, and Unity. Several of us are repeat founders, with deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments. We enjoy long, deep ideations around entirely unexplored AI use cases in autonomy (cars, drones, robots).
Who you are
- Leader and coach : you naturally gravitate toward coaching and leading your team while executing on complex technical agendas
- Expert communicator : you take pride in your ability to communicate complex topics clearly and have excellent speaking and writing skills. You know the importance of speaking in the language of the receiver.
- Customer-centric : you understand how to interpret and communicate business needs, and translate that into technical solutions with a team of highly independent senior engineers.
- Curious : you have an innate curiosity for all things intellectual, and it’s something you can’t turn off. You obsess over finer details others miss.
- High intensity : you thrive in a high-stakes environment, and are driven by an innate obsession, not by others.
- Fast learner : you gravitate toward learning new things, and often find yourself learning more quickly than everyone around you.
- Driven by discomfort : you enjoy leaving your comfort zone and challenging yourself
- Creative : track record of solving hard problems with solutions worthy of academic papers
- Zero ego : you don’t just take feedback, but truly see it as a gift. You don’t wait until feedback is given, but solicit it with every opportunity.
- Founder mentality : you roll up your sleeves to help solve the most pressing problem on a given day, even if it has nothing to do with this job post.
Where you are
West or East Coast USA, Bay Area Preferred
Technical skills
Broad technical foundation in software engineering and deep learning (through self-study, practical experience, or PhD)
Day in the life
Expect to stretch your imagination daily as we are building a new AI capable of making robots ubiquitous. Expect to learn new skills every day, regardless of the level you’re currently at. We are a small team that supports each other. You will work closely with our AI experts but also product engineers.
