Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
Core
Founding role bridging an early-stage AI infrastructure company with frontier AI labs to build data and evaluation tooling for training advanced AI models.
Role type
Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
Builds
Data and evaluation tooling for training frontier AI models
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Frontier AI Research
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI partnerships, business development, technical translation of ML requirements, dataset design, experimental design, evaluation frameworks, go-to-market strategy, early-stage startup operations
Preferred skills
prior experience at frontier AI lab, machine learning research background, ML engineering, scientific data generation, laboratory automation
Technologies
foundation models, post-training methodologies, AI agents
Responsibilities
Build relationships with researchers and technical leaders at frontier AI labs, identify technical needs in post-training and evaluations, translate researcher requirements into dataset designs and experiments, feed customer insights into product roadmap, define partnership engagement and scaling strategies, own go-to-market strategy for partnerships
Seniority
Founding, high-ownership IC