Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
Core
Build and lead partnerships between the company and frontier AI labs to shape datasets, evaluations, and long-term relationships for training advanced AI models.
Role type
Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
Builds
Strategic partnerships with frontier AI research organizations
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Infrastructure
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
AI partnerships, business development, technical requirements translation, go-to-market strategy, customer discovery, dataset design, evaluation frameworks
Preferred skills
ML research background, scientific data generation, early-stage startup experience
Technologies
foundation models, agents, evaluation methodologies
Responsibilities
Build relationships with researchers and technical leaders at frontier AI labs, identify technical needs in post-training and evaluations, translate ML requirements into dataset specifications, feed customer insights into product roadmap, define go-to-market strategy, scale relationships across research organizations
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC & strategy