Principal Builder

• Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.

• Build the business case for ideas that hold up: market sizing, business model, go-to-market plan, and a clear written thesis for the company.

• Decide which ideas to bet on, based on the size of the market opportunity and how uniquely AI can solve it.

• Help recruit the founder. Explain the idea to potential founders and Engineers in Residence, and help bring the right person on to lead the Build.

• Drive AI Fund's co-founding of companies with partners and founders, mainly through product, user, and go-to-market guidance during the 12-week Build.

• Build the recommendation on whether AI Fund should invest at the end of the Build, then support the AI Fund partner on follow-on investment and portfolio support.
• Technical ability, a real understanding of frontier AI, and hands-on experience coding with AI.

• Experience as an engineer, product manager, product designer, or founder, including scrappy 0-to-1 work.

• A track record of working with top talent, such as elite founders and senior executives, where both sides earn each other's respect and you make efficient use of their time.

• The ability to communicate with rigor, persuade through influence, and carry strong opinions with maturity.

• A STEM or research degree from a top research university, or an equivalent background where you've built the same rigor.
• A technically deep person whose business judgment is their strongest asset. This role shapes ideas, influences founders, and pushes AI Fund forward.

• Someone who still builds on weekends, at hackathons or on side projects, and who works well with everyone from elite founders to corporate partners.

Long-term incentives, including carried interest and virtual shares in AI Fund.