СШАChief of Staff
1 нед. назад
130k–180k USD / годСШАC-levelOnsite
Strategic leadership role supporting executive operations at an AI infrastructure startup.
О компании
- From humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles, every Physical AI model is trained on petabytes of video, lidar, radar, and sensor data. Today’s data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) were built for spreadsheet-like analytics, not video corpora. And understanding that video still means paying a person to watch it, ten dollars an hour of footage at the low end. So teams check a sample and hope it represents the rest. The footage grows every year; the budget to look at it doesn’t.
- was founded in 2022 to close that gap. Our open-source engine, Daft, is purpose-built for multimodal AI: 2 PB/day at Amazon, 60-100 PB at another FAANG company, and in production at companies like Mobileye, TogetherAI. On top of it we’re building the infrastructure that finds any situation you can describe across a fleet’s entire video history, and turns it into a training set or an alert someone can still act on. We fine-tune and run the vision models ourselves, which makes indexing every hour cheaper than annotating a sample.
- We’re building this with the top Physical AI labs and GPU cloud providers. We’ve raised $30M from investors like Felicis, CRV, Y Combinator, and angels from the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity. Our team comes from AWS, Lyft, and Tesla. We powered the last generation of Physical AI in self-driving; now we’re doing it for the next.
- Join our small (but powerful!) team, 4 days/week in our SF Mission District office.
Обязанности
- As Chief of Staff , you’ll own the work that decides how fast grows and doesn’t belong to any one function. We’re a small team selling infrastructure to some of the most demanding engineering organizations in the world — Physical AI labs, AV programs, GPU cloud providers — and at our size a customer conversation becomes a contract question, a contract question becomes a pricing decision, and a pricing decision becomes a hiring plan. Someone has to carry that thread end to end.
- You’ll own the company’s operating cadence — planning, metrics, board and investor materials — and step into whatever sits between teams: customer and partner conversations, contracts and legal, hiring, and the projects that don’t have an owner yet. This is a generalist role — meaning you’ll move between go-to-market, operations, and legal in the same week, but you own the outcomes and execute on them.
- The functions you build here will eventually have leaders of their own. Build one well, and the most likely outcome is that you run it.
- Own the operating cadence end-to-end: planning, company goals and metrics, board and investor materials, and the written decisions that keep a small team pointed in the same direction.
- Sit in on customer, partner, and GPU cloud conversations with the CEO — and run them yourself when the CEO can’t — carrying each to an outcome rather than a summary.
- Step into the functional seat we haven’t hired yet, whether that’s sales or marketing in a given quarter, then build the motion behind it so the hire inherits a system instead of anecdotes.
- Own contracts and the legal path: act as the internal counterpart to outside counsel and carry deals through procurement and security review so engineers stay on product.
- Pick up the ambiguous cross-functional problem — pricing, a partner program, the first go-to-market hires — drive it to a decision, and hand it off or hire against it, complementing our business operations function rather than duplicating it.
Требования
- 2-5 years of high-ownership work — Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy and operations, or early go-to-market at a startup, or consulting, banking, or VC followed by an operating role. A degree in a quantitative, technical, or business field is common on this path.
- Broad operating range across planning, metrics, contracts, vendors, and hiring, and comfort moving between them in a single day.
- Comfortable with commercial and legal detail — you can read an MSA, work with outside counsel, and hold your own on a customer or partner call.
- Clear writing and clear thinking — your memos and decks are good enough to send as-is, and a vague problem comes back from you as a recommendation.
- Technically literate enough to follow what our engineers are building and explain it to a customer. You don’t need to write code.
Будет плюсом
- Time at a data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI infrastructure company, or familiarity with the GPU cloud ecosystem.
- Exposure to Physical AI — autonomous vehicles, robotics, or ADAS — and a sense of what those teams work on day to day.
- Experience taking open source to a commercial business, or developer marketing, launches, and events you ran yourself.
- Enterprise procurement and security reviews, or a Series A or B raise you helped run from the inside.
- A bachelor's degree, or higher, in business administration, management, or a related field
Условия
- In-person, tight-knit team — 4 days/week in our SF Mission office.
- Competitive comp and meaningful startup equity.
- Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees.
- Commuter benefit.
- Team-building events and poker nights.
- Health, vision, and dental coverage.
- Flexible PTO.
- Latest Apple equipment.
- 401(k) plan with match.