Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
About the Role
This is a founding role at an early-stage AI infrastructure company building data and evaluation tooling for the teams training the world's most advanced AI models. You will serve as the primary bridge between the company and researchers and technical leaders at frontier AI labs, owning both the commercial relationship and the technical translation that makes those partnerships work. This is a high-ownership, high-impact position with the opportunity to build and lead the partnerships function from scratch.
What You'll Do
Build and manage relationships with researchers and technical leaders at frontier AI labs to understand their priorities and constraints.
Identify technical needs across post-training, evaluations, AI agents, and scientific data.
Translate technical requirements from ML researchers into concrete dataset designs, experiments, and evaluation frameworks.
Feed customer insights and feedback directly into the ML and experimental product roadmap.
Define how the company engages with and scales partnerships with advanced AI teams.
Own go-to-market strategy and positioning for partnerships with frontier research organizations.
