Olakai is building the control plane for generative AI in the enterprise. Founded by Xavier Casanova (Founder and CEO of Liveclicker) and backed by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund and Dean Sysman (Founder and CEO of Axonious), Olakai gives CIOs the visibility, control, and secure tooling to confidently experiment with AI tools. As their company’s AI footprint grows, LocalNode evolves into the centralized AI platform, extending security, visibility, and auditing capabilities across all tools—whether built internally, by tech giants, or by the smallest startups.
What you’ll do:
This Head of AI will be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance across the Engineering team and AI product line.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead groundbreaking projects in AI
- Build and manage a team of machine learning scientists and engineers
- Collaborate with the founding engineering team to make pivotal decisions regarding infrastructure, architecture, and scalability
- Work with the CEO and product team to incorporate their aims with the machine learning strategy and development
- Work with other company leaders to decide on strategies and roadmaps
- Maintain and scale existing technologies
- Stay informed of the latest AI/ ML developments
Requirements:
- A leader who thrives in the vibrant ecosystem of a startup
- Bachelor's or Master's degree or Phd in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or related field
- 6 - 8+ years’ experience in AI/ML
- Ability to articulate your vision and complex technology solutions with a broad audience, from product/design leaders to investors
- Deep understanding of MLOps, including experience with CI/CD pipelines, model deployment, monitoring, and retraining strategies.
Nice to Have:
- Proficiency in building and deploying AI agents, with hands-on experience using frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex
- Solid understanding of LLMOps concepts, with knowledge of managing and optimizing large language models in production environments.
Top Skills
What We Do
Who is AI Fund?
We are a team of AI pioneers, proven entrepreneurs, seasoned operators, and venture capitalists that collaborates with leading entrepreneurs to solve big challenges using artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.
How Are We Different?
We work with entrepreneurs during their startup’s most critical and risky phase, from 0 to 1. At the earliest stages, your company strategy is still being formed, and you’re still on the path to demonstrating your idea’s full potential – this is a reality we understand. This is the period when decisions on product strategy, market fit, and team are most critical, moving fast and fixing parts of your business when you have limited resources is a challenge.
We believe the best way to help entrepreneurs is by providing our time, expertise, and resources to help flesh out these key strategic decisions. Making the right decisions at the right time can often make the difference. We are here to improve these dynamics, at a time when the help matters the most.
Why Work With AI Fund?
Getting a startup from idea to Series A funding is not easy. We’ve been there and understand the challenges you must overcome. Whether you desire limited help and just want access to our unique ecosystems of AI experts and entrepreneurs or you would like our full support, we are interested in the opportunity to help in your success.
We are flexible in how we work with companies, but ultimately, we are here to maximize your chance of success and accelerate getting your company to market. We provide the capital, expertise, and resources to accelerate the work required to minimize risks in your startup, help you rise above the noise, and make your company more attractive to new investors.
