Full-Time
Head of Engineering - Founding Team Member
AI Fund
11-50 employees
Venture studio launching AI-based startups
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
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- End-to-end production owner: you design, ship, operate, and debug; you close loops fast
- Strong fundamentals: performance, reliability, security, and product/UX judgment (especially on conversion-sensitive surfaces)
- AI-native builder: you ship production code with agentic tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, similar)
- You use AI for speed, keep quality high with tests/CI/observability, and can debug when AI output is wrong
- Thrive in ambiguity and a very small-team environment
- We ship primarily in TypeScript today, but we prioritize fundamentals and AI-native
- Own the codebase and technical direction: architecture, quality bar, shipping cadence, production reliability
- Own and evolve a live Shopify app and storefront integration, hardening it across OS 2.0 and legacy theme realities with safe rollouts and easy rollback
- Extend the mobile web creator upload flow with Mux: QR → prompt → record/upload → consent → submit
- Turn content readiness from manual workflows into product: review/approve/publish, SKU mapping, internal tooling to automation
- Shopify apps/theme integration experience, or embedded widget/SDK experience in hostile third-party environments
- Video pipeline familiarity (Mux or similar)
- Experimentation/analytics rigor: clean event design, integrity checks, debugging
AI Fund is a venture studio that creates and launches AI-based companies. It partners with innovators and tech pioneers to develop startups that apply artificial intelligence to solve problems in fields such as manufacturing, mental health, maritime shipping, and education. It acts as a minor co-founder, offering resources, strategic guidance, and investment to help entrepreneurs move ideas from concept to reality quickly. Unlike traditional funds, it builds companies around AI-enabled business models and shares equity stakes in the ventures it helps create and grow. Its goal is to advance practical AI applications and drive meaningful impact by helping early-stage startups scale and succeed.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$430.2M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- IrisGo raised $2.8 million in 2026, with Acer preinstalling its software globally.
- Netail closed a $9 million Series A in February 2026, validating AI Fund sourcing.
- AI Fund's 2026 growth-fund filing targets larger checks, widening ownership in breakout winners.
What critics are saying
- AI Fund depends on Andrew Ng; his absence breaks sourcing, credibility, and deal flow.
- AI Fund's growth-fund expansion in January 2026 raises pressure for faster, riskier deployments.
- Copilot, OpenAI, and Anthropic compress startup differentiation, hurting portfolio follow-on rounds by 2027.
What makes AI Fund unique
- Andrew Ng leads AI Fund, a founder-brand few studios can match in 2026.
- AI Fund co-founds at pre-seed, pairing AI expertise with operating help from day one.
- Over $370 million backs 40+ companies across healthcare, logistics, education, and enterprise software.
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