[Hiring] Technical Founder in Residence @Aifund

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Role Description

We’re launching a new venture in Generative AI and are seeking a founder-in-residence to lead it from concept to company. If you're a builder with technical GenAI experience and a track record of building products from 0 to 1, this is your opportunity to shape a venture at the ground floor.

As the Founder-in-Residence, you’ll set the product vision, lead the technical execution, and serve as the face of the company. This role requires a unique mix of deep technical expertise, product intuition, business execution, storytelling, and leadership.

Qualifications
• Hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI or ML-powered applications (e.g., involving components such as LLMs, agentic workflows, reasoning systems, chatbots, evals, etc.)
• Full-stack engineering understanding with a grasp of scalable, cloud-native application architecture
• Proven track record of building 0→1 products
• Experience navigating ambiguity, iterating quickly, and building products from scratch
• Experience building, managing, or scaling high-performing teams
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to inspire, align, and influence cross-functional teams
• Strong customer empathy — actively seeks out user feedback and integrates it into product decisions
• Understanding of market dynamics and competitive positioning
• Comfortable collaborating with sales, marketing, and GTM teams to shape product strategy and messaging

Requirements
• Experience presenting to investors or participating in capital raises
• Deep knowledge or strong familiarity with our target industry (e.g., renewable energy, infrastructure, compliance, etc.)
• Previous co-founder or founding engineer of VC-backed software company

Characteristics We Value
• Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity
• Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future
• Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times; high pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure
• Scrappy: takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation
• Ownership orientation: demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature

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