Ayama has partnered with Andrew Ng’s AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader to use AI to reshape how $10+ Trillion of heavy assets operate, are managed, and are maintained. With electrification driving rapid growth in energy and reshoring accelerating the build out of U.S. electronics and IT manufacturing, the company plans to close critical gaps by raising asset uptime & output as well as staff productivity. Ayama is looking for a Head of Engineering to help drive the AI revolution into critical assets. The Head of Engineering will report directly to Ayama’s CEO.
Ayama was incubated in AI Fund, a venture studio headquartered in Palo Alto and founded by Dr. Andrew Ng. With a vision to meld AI technology with essential applications, AI Fund champions the belief that AI, much like electricity did, has the power to revolutionize a myriad of industries. As part of this endeavor, you'll gain unparalleled access to the world's leading AI luminaries and exclusive AI Fund resources.
The Head of Engineering will play a crucial role in developing the company’s technology strategy and software architecture, leading the building of our first product. Your task is to define the tech stack with a view towards ensuring scalability, independence of 3rd party platforms, and deployment flexibility across cloud, private cloud and on-prem, and build a high caliber team of experts across software engineering and AI/ML.
Support Includes:
- All essential support needed to launch the engineering team and ensure your success in the role and, ultimately, the company's success
- Remote first company for you and the engineering team
- Headcount for you to build the initial engineering team
- Fortune 500 users as design partners for real-world product feedback and prioritization
- AI Fund technical roadmap
Expectations for the Role Include:
- Leadership & Strategy: Provide visionary leadership and strategy for the engineering team; Establish and drive strategic technology goals and objectives.
- Team Development: Hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Proven success in a remote environment.
- Collaboration: Work closely with all teams to ensure alignment between business and technological goals.
- You'll be expected to demonstrate a lead-by-example leadership style, an unparalleled commitment, and a proactive mindset to shape the foundation and drive the company's success from its earliest stages, including: ready to dive deep, encompassing a hands-on, get-it-done mentality for whatever is needed, regardless of the job role.
- Actively contribute to the codebase, setting the standard for coding practices and ensuring high-quality software development.
- Be a full-time coach for your team to develop talent and create opportunities for staff.
- Mentor other departments, such as customer service and implementation, on the technology to best support customers.
- Being comfortable presenting to the board, addressing the entire company, and engaging in discussions with high-value potential customer prospects.
- Always strategizing and proactively sharing insights on improving the company, enhancing our product, and empowering our team to achieve greater success.
- Participation in fundraising activities.
Position Requirements Include:
- Entrepreneurial Experience: Previous experience as an engineering leader for a VC-backed technology company.
- Zero to One: Previous experience building a software product from scratch.
- Full Stack Development: Across the software development lifecycle, ensuring best practices in both front-end and back-end development.
- AI/ML Proficiency: Conceptual understanding of AI/ML technologies to drive innovation within our product and ensure the engineering team stays updated with the latest advancements.
- Integration and Scalability: Familiarity with integrating various data sources, tools, and platforms, ensuring scalability and growth optimization.
- Data Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and develop data management and governance practices, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field a plus.
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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.
