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AI Fund

Venture studio launching AI-based startups

AI Engineer Visiting - Context Hub

Full-Time
$10k - $15k/mo
Mid
Master's, PhD
Mountain View, CA, USA
In Person
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Product sense for developer tools, including experience shipping a tool used by other developers and making product decisions.
  • Knowledge of open-source communities, contributor motivation, documentation practices, and public project advocacy.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js, with experience building and shipping command-line interface tools, developer software development kits, or developer-facing infrastructure.
  • Very strong understanding of large language models and AI coding agents, including experience building applications that integrate with or orchestrate language models.
  • Experience with npm package publishing, versioning, and open-source project maintenance.
  • Ability to design clean, extensible, and well-documented application programming interfaces, data models, and architectures.
  • Conceptual understanding of artificial intelligence trends and technologies, plus familiarity and experience with AI-powered coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, small-team environment, own projects end to end, and operate amid ambiguity.
  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
Responsibilities
  • Own Context Hub end to end, including its technical direction, growth strategy, and community health, and create its product roadmap.
  • Engage directly with the developer community through GitHub issues, user interviews, and usage data to identify product needs and priorities.
  • Explore new ways for AI agents to discover and use knowledge, including smarter retrieval, agent-to-agent knowledge sharing, self-improving documentation, and private team contexts.
  • Build and maintain the Context Hub command-line interface and core infrastructure, ensuring reliability and performance as usage scales.
  • Design and implement systems for intelligent documentation retrieval, versioning, and curation.
  • Develop features that allow agents to annotate, enrich, and share knowledge across sessions.
  • Review open-source contributions, triage issues, and maintain a high-quality contributor experience.
  • Experiment with large-language-model-based approaches to validate, summarize, and improve documentation quality automatically.
  • Instrument, monitor, and optimize tool performance and developer experience using real-world usage patterns.
  • Work with Andrew Ng and the engineering team to define the Context Hub product roadmap and technical direction.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to create content, processes, and artificial-intelligence-powered solutions for scalable developer-community support.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience maintaining a popular open-source project with at least 1,000 GitHub stars.
  • Background in information retrieval, search, or knowledge graph systems.
  • Experience with Model Context Protocol, tool-use frameworks, or agent orchestration platforms.
  • Familiarity with documentation-as-code workflows and static site generators.
  • A master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.

About the company

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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What believers are saying

  • IrisGo raised $2.8 million in May 2026 with Acer preinstalled, proving hardware distribution.
  • LearnVector announced July 28, 2026, backed by Coursera's $100 million, expanding AI Fund reach.
  • AI Fund backed Netail's February 2026 Series A and BizTrip AI's pre-seed, keeping pipeline active.

What critics are saying

  • Andrew Ng’s July 2026 LearnVector launch splits attention from AI Fund’s portfolio oversight.
  • AI Fund’s model depends on continuous founder recruitment; weak markets stall new studio creations quickly.
  • Hyperscalers ship bundled copilots faster than studio startups, crushing narrow product wedges within months.

What makes AI Fund unique

  • Andrew Ng combines AI Fund with LearnVector and Coursera ties, closing founder-to-distribution loops.
  • AI Fund co-founds companies from zero, not just writing checks, compressing pre-seed execution.
  • IrisGo’s Acer preloads show AI Fund turns prototypes into OEM-shipped products quickly.

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Wellness Program

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401(k) Company Match

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