Nova

Chief AI Officer – IC Role

Nova

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New York • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PyTorchRay

About the role

  • Serve as the technical AI lead across portfolio companies, working directly with founders and engineers to architect and build AI-native products.
  • Translate business and product concepts into technical AI roadmaps using first-principles thinking.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on machine learning and generative AI models across diverse use cases (e.g., vision, text, multi-modal).
  • Evaluate and integrate open-source models, fine-tune foundation models, and design custom training pipelines when needed.
  • Stay ahead of the curve on frontier AI advancements, sharing insights that shape company bets and technical decisions.

Requirements

  • Have a PhD (or left one behind) in CS, AI, or a related field with 2–8 years of industry experience.
  • Have built and shipped ML systems—ideally at startups or modern tech-forward companies.
  • Are deeply comfortable with modern AI tooling and infrastructure (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, LangChain, Ray, etc.).
  • Have experience with both traditional ML and generative AI (e.g., LLMs, diffusion models, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning).
  • Think like a founder and solve problems from first principles.
  • Based on the East Coast
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learninggenerative AIfine-tuningprototypingtestingiteratingcustom training pipelinesfirst-principles thinkingAI-native productsLLMs
Soft Skills
problem-solvingfounder mindsetcollaborationcommunication
Certifications
PhD in Computer SciencePhD in AI