MileIQ · 5 months ago
Chief AI Officer (IC Role)
Nova Talent is a venture studio focused on building category-defining AI companies. They are seeking a Chief AI Officer to lead AI strategy and execution across their portfolio, with a hands-on approach to model training and engineering direction.
Information TechnologyMobileMobile AppsSmall and Medium Businesses
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
MileIQ
MileIQ develops a mileage tracking and logging app that uses automatic mileage tracking to calculate mileage. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
2022 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$15.11MKey Investors
Trinity VenturesCRV
2015-01-29Series A· $12.11M
2014-09-16Seed· $3M
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