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AI Fund · 1 day ago

Head of Engineering-Founding Team Member

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

AI Fund is a venture studio that supports entrepreneurs in building new companies. The Head of Engineering will own the engineering end-to-end for Vidably, ensuring the platform is self-serve and reliable across Shopify storefronts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own the codebase and technical direction: architecture, quality bar, shipping cadence, production reliability

Own and evolve a live Shopify app and storefront integration, hardening it across OS 2.0 and legacy theme realities with safe rollouts and easy rollback

Extend the mobile web creator upload flow with Mux: QR → prompt → record/upload → consent →submit

Turn content readiness from manual workflows into product: review/approve/publish, SKU mapping, internal tooling to automation

Qualification

End-to-end production ownershipAI-native builderFundamentalsShopify apps/theme integrationVideo pipeline familiarityExperimentation/analytics rigorDebugging skillsThrive in ambiguity

Required

End-to-end production owner: you design, ship, operate, and debug; you close loops fast

Strong fundamentals: performance, reliability, security, and product/UX judgment (especially on conversion-sensitive surfaces)

AI-native builder: you ship production code with agentic tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, similar)

You use AI for speed, keep quality high with tests/CI/observability, and can debug when AI output is wrong

Thrive in ambiguity and a very small-team environment

Preferred

Shopify apps/theme integration experience, or embedded widget/SDK experience in hostile third-party environments

Video pipeline familiarity (Mux or similar)

Experimentation/analytics rigor: clean event design, integrity checks, debugging

Company

AI Fund

AI Fund is a VC firm made up of AI pioneers, operators, entrepreneurs, and investors, supported by LPs such as NEA, Sequoia and Greylock.

Founded in 2017

Palo Alto, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://aifund.ai/

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (2)

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