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Chief of Staff - NomadicML
5mo ago
USAC-level
Work directly with the founders of NomadicML to support company growth and accelerate research into video-reasoning models.
Responsibilities
- NomadicML is entering a phase of rapid growth—expanding our partnerships with top autonomy companies and accelerating our research into video-reasoning models. We’re seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the founders on the company’s most critical strategic, operational, and communication initiatives.
- This is not a support role—it’s a force-multiplier position that helps the founding team operate at 10× speed. You’ll act as a connector between research, engineering, operations, and external stakeholders, ensuring that our product roadmap, business goals, and partnerships stay tightly aligned.
- You’ll help drive clarity, execution, and scale across everything from fundraising and strategic partnerships to internal OKRs and cross-functional launches.
Requirements
- A strong analytical and organizational mindset; you can simplify chaos into a clear plan.
- Exceptional writing and communication skills—you can draft crisp memos, investor updates, and presentations.
- Deep curiosity about AI, machine learning, or technical products —you’re excited to learn how things actually work.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous, founder-driven environment .
- A bias for action and ownership; you don’t wait for direction, you create it.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in AI / ML , autonomous systems , or deep-tech startups .
- Experience with technical products, VC communications , or enterprise partnerships .
- Comfort working closely with technical founders and interpreting complex technical concepts for business audiences.
Other
- Americans drive over 5 trillion miles a year, more than 500 billion of them recorded. Buried in that footage is the next frontier of machine intelligence. At NomadicML, we’re building the platform that unlocks it.
- Our Vision-Language Models (VLMs) act as the new “hydraulic mining” for video, transforming raw footage into structured intelligence that powers real-world autonomy and robotics. We partner with industry leaders across self-driving, robotics, and industrial automation to mine insights from petabytes of data that were once unusable.
- NomadicML was founded by Mustafa Bal and Varun Krishnan , who met at Harvard University while studying Computer Science.
- Mustafa is a core contributor to ONNX Runtime and DeepSpeed with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale model training infrastructure
- Varun is an INFORMS Wagner Prize Finalist for his research in large-scale driver navigation AI models and one of the top chess players in the US.
- Our team has built mission-critical AI systems at Snowflake, Lyft, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM Research , holds top-tier publications in VLMS and AI at conferences like CVPR , and moves with the speed and clarity of a startup obsessed with impact.
- Partner directly with the founders to manage key priorities, company goals, and investor initiatives.
- Operationalize strategic plans —turning abstract goals into concrete deliverables across product, research, and growth.
- Drive internal communication and alignment , ensuring all teams understand what’s most important week-to-week.
- Lead special projects spanning GTM strategy, hiring, partnerships, and research collaboration.
- Support fundraising and investor relations , including data gathering, memo writing, and due-diligence coordination.
- Own cross-functional initiatives such as launch plans, product updates, and key customer deliverables.
- Represent the founders in internal meetings and external communications when needed.