Head of Artificial Intelligence

At Founderful, we focus on helping founder teams of Swiss tech startups to achieve their ambitious goals in becoming international market leaders. This also means supporting our portfolio companies in attracting and hiring the top-tier talent for critical positions.

We’re now supporting one of our portfolio companies, a fast-paced robotics start-up building the autopilot for robotic material handling and looking for a highly skilled and driven Head of AI to lead the design and development of the computer vision and robot autonomy stacks.

This role is the best fit for someone, who is ready to take on significant responsibility to help shape the company’s future. You enjoy staying hands-on, bringing the skills and understanding of building a full ML from scratch and applying it to a real world, bringing real-world smarts to the robots while thriving in a fast-paced, agile environment. You are also someone who has leadership experience, from managing your teams or from mentoring or leading the ML projects and hence you understand what it means to build the trust with the team and guide them in order to scale and grow.

What you bring

• Experience architecting models, training pipelines and serving infrastructure at scale.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end process of gathering and augmenting data, creating balanced training/validation/regression sets, studying the performance of different models and optimizing their quality.
• Experience applying ML to a real world information (e.g. digital avatars, robots, machines).
• Experience building, maintaining and improving production code.
• Strong knowledge of C++ and Python.
• MSc or PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the long-term AI roadmap for computer vision and robot autonomy stacks, aligning with company goals and product requirements.
• Be hands-on while also overseeing the development of our AI/ML algorithms, geared towards real-world logistics environments.
• Architect and implement our AI pipeline from data gathering, augmentation, management, model training, and inference infrastructure.
• Build and lead a team of high-performing engineers by example!
• Stay at the forefront of AI/ML research.
• Work closely with robotics and field engineers to translate real-world problems to state-of-the-art ML solutions.
• Guide the whole team through the full ML lifecycle, from experimentation and model training to deployment on embedded systems.
• Uncover new opportunities throughout our product that can be made better or addressed through machine learning.

This is your chance to join a fast-growing startup with an ambitious team, all on the mission to develop the next generation of intelligent machines. You’ll take the full journey, from early research to deploying your models on real robots, while growing and mentoring an AI team that’s just as driven as you are.

• Competitive salary and equity participation.
• Chance to take on meaningful responsibility from day 1 and help shape the company culture.
• Collaborate with a team of experts and be part of an early-stage investor-backed startup.
• Work in a central office in Zurich or partially remote.
• Great team spirit in an agile environment.

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