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Work with the founding team on high-priority projects across product, research, and operations. Build datasets with leading AI labs, manage domain experts, produce sales memos and data samples, and support operational initiatives. High-agency, fast-learning intern role with potential conversion to full-time Strategic Projects Associate.

First finance hire building the finance function: own financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, AP/AR, invoicing, vendor management, cash flow and working capital, expense optimization (API/compute/contractors), investor reporting, and strategic KPI tracking. Coordinate with external accountants/legal and hire/train future finance team members; may support sales/BD contract structuring.

Lead and manage a small engineering team while remaining hands-on: build and ship scalable production systems for applied AI, drive execution, recruit and mentor engineers, and collaborate across ops, domain experts, and customers.

Design datasets and evaluation frameworks for foundation models, run experiments exposing failure modes across domains, improve annotator behavior, and develop quantitative metrics for dataset quality and downstream model impact. Partner with lab research teams to translate objectives into data and evaluation specs for RLHF/RLVR and LLM training pipelines.

Perform outbound prospecting and qualify leads for frontier AI labs. Research contacts, run multi-channel outreach (email, LinkedIn, X, events), maintain CRM hygiene, and develop outbound playbooks with founders. Articulate product value (data → model improvement) and hand off qualified pipeline to sales team.