Mountain View, CA | AI Fund | Full-time
AI Fund is a venture studio founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. We build AI companies from the ground up with corporate partners, investors, and elite founders, backed by a fund from top-tier global corporations and VC firms. Our purpose is to build AI companies that move humanity forward.
Our Engineer in Residence (EIR) program puts a hands-on GenAI builder on an idea for 12 weeks to test it with real users. The strongest go on to found the company, and that is the only way AI Fund deploys capital: every company we fund starts with an EIR hire.
The person in this role will own full-cycle recruiting for EIRs and for AI Fund's own team, from first conversation to signed offer. We're rethinking how recruiting works now that AI exists. We're after 5x improvements, not 5% gains, and the recruiter in this seat helps build that.
What you'll do
- Run full-cycle EIR searches across all of our active ideas.
- Close. Walk candidates through the residency, the compensation, and the path to founding a company, and get the right people to yes.
- Own hiring for AI Fund's internal team, starting with engineers on our Build team and expanding to other roles the studio needs.
- Recruit builders on evidence of hands-on work: shipped products, real technical contributions, and applied GenAI experience.
- Use AI across your own workflow, including sourcing, research, outreach, and screening, and help build the custom tools that make it faster.
- Keep the process moving and ensure that candidates go from first contact through hiring events, a hands-on build exercise, the panel, and a decision without losing days.
- Report pipeline health weekly with real numbers, and use them to fix whatever is slowing things down.
What you need
- 6 or more years of full-cycle recruiting, including at least 3 hiring senior engineers or research-caliber technical talent, ideally at startups, venture studios, or venture-backed companies.
- A record of closing hard-to-hire technical candidates.
- Fluency in how modern AI teams work. You can tell a hands-on builder from someone who manages one, and you can hold a credible screen with either.
- Daily, hands-on use of AI tools in your recruiting work, and a real appetite to keep pushing the boundaries.
- You use AI heavily but never send slop. Anything you write should take longer to write than to read.
- Basic technical ability (or a strong desire to learn) paired with deep curiosity and the ability to digest new concepts quickly. Everyone at AI Fund, recruiters included, builds software with AI help.
- Ability to communicate in a way that candidates and founders trust. You can explain an unusual role and an unusual offer clearly.
- The ability to run several searches on your own while keeping stakeholders informed.
Bonus points
- Experience recruiting founders, founding engineers, or candidates for an entrepreneurial program.
- Experience at a venture studio, incubator, or early-stage founder program.
- An agency or executive search background in AI, robotics, or deep tech.
Who this is for
- You want work that matters. Every company AI Fund funds starts with an EIR, and you're the one finding them.
- You're bored by filling reqs and want to help decide who builds the next great AI company.
- You want exceptional candidates, unusual roles, and a job where your judgment changes the outcome.
- You know the volume is high and the bar is higher. Most weeks include two or more hiring events and several active EIR searches.
Why AI Fund
- You'll work with Andrew Ng's team and see ideas become funded, launched companies in about 10 weeks.
- You'll see where AI is actually going through our network of companies, and you'll get the resources to change how recruiting works.
What success looks like
Six months in, EIR searches close faster and with less friction, the internal team has a steady pipeline of strong builders, and you've built at least one AI workflow the rest of the team now uses. Candidates always know where they stand, and the people you hire stay.
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Skills Required
- 6 or more years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- At least 3 hires of senior engineers or research-caliber technical talent
- Record of closing hard-to-hire technical candidates
- Fluency in how modern AI teams work and ability to assess hands-on technical builders
- Daily hands-on use of AI tools in recruiting work
- Basic technical ability or strong desire to learn
- Ability to learn and digest new concepts quickly
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that build candidate and founder trust
- Ability to run multiple searches independently while keeping stakeholders informed
- Experience recruiting founders, founding engineers, or entrepreneurial-program candidates
- Experience at a venture studio, incubator, or early-stage founder program
- Agency or executive search background in AI, robotics, or deep tech
AI Fund Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AI Fund and has not been reviewed or approved by AI Fund.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as strong with great healthcare and dental coverage, plus vision insurance, long-term disability, and life insurance. Feedback suggests this aligns with tech-standard benefits for US roles at a small venture studio.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer match for US employees. Feedback suggests this forms part of a competitive total package for fund roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes fully paid parental leave for applicable roles. Feedback suggests this is a standout benefit for an organization of this size.
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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.
