AI Fund · 4 hours ago
Head of Technology @ Esteam AI
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Responsibilities
Leading the development of a proprietary, child-specific speech recognition technology which includes defining the technical requirements, planning for unique, competitive IP advantages, scoping and project planning
We are an early-stage startup, so you must have the ability to write and review code, as well as define engineering structure, resources, operations and KPIs as we scale
Manage security, compliance and data privacy policies, particularly ensuring COPPA complianceLeading an Agile startup environment balancing rapid iteration and prototyping, compliance, processes and long term architectural planning
You will define the vision for the engineering organization and identify key hires. You will shape the engineering team across all platforms and be a thought leader in the field by applying AI to learning and the education space. As the company scales, you’ll mentor and develop a cross-functional team and instill structure as needed to ensure efficient product delivery
Strategic planning with the CEO. You’ll begin with a 30/60/90 roadmap while helping to craft the technological vision, while pitching and fundraising to VCs
Qualification
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Required
8+ years experience with recent hands on development and managing a small technical team of engineers (eg ML, ASR, full-stack, mobile) as a Technical Lead
A proven track record of early stage production AI development - defining a stage zero product and bringing it to market
Experience working with and/or developing automatic speech recognition technology
Experience architecting self-provisioning, scalable software platforms that are fully instrumented to provide real-time monitoring, automated incident notifications, and relevant historic and real-time user metrics
Comfortable articulating complex technology solutions with a broad audience, from the technical team, VCs, product leaders, SMEs in the education space, teachers, and even kids!
Scrappy and recent pre-seed or seed startup experience
Positive outlook and a desire to build a company culture with humility, compassion and radical candor
A Computer Science Engineering or related technical degree
Preferred
An interest in the edtech space and an authentic desire to change the learning outcomes of children or experience in the Edtech industry
Experience building ASR systems using state-of-the-art technology (e.g., wav2vec2, NeMo)
Experience developing B2C products
Ability and experience attracting a solid technical team
Previous early-stage startup experience or napkin sketch to product launch experience
Company
AI Fund
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