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Worktrace AI is redefining how humans and AI collaborate — starting with an assistant that learns from how you work and proactively takes tasks off your plate.

The role

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to be the tip of the spear for turning Worktrace AI’s ambitious product vision into reality. In this role, you will be a key part of the founding team—ideating, prototyping, and ultimately shipping cutting-edge AI products. Besides building, you will identify key areas for engineering investment, build the technical foundation as we scale, and lead by example to build a healthy and strong engineering culture.

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate with Research and Design to create new ways to use AI

  • Rapidly prototype product ideas and productionize novel AI research

  • Set the talent and culture standards for Worktrace AI’s engineering team

You’ll excel in this role if you

  • Love rapidly building user-facing products

  • Have experience with machine learning and/or data pipelines

  • Have uncompromising standards of excellence

  • Find joy in delivering AI magic moments to users

The Founders

We’re product and research leaders from OpenAI, Microsoft, UIUC, MIT, and CMU with deep roots in building AI systems that ship.

Angela Jiang

Former Product Manager at OpenAI (GPT-3.5, GPT-4 launches), Ph.D. in Deep Learning Systems from CMU, led AI public policy technical strategy.

Deepak Vasisht

Professor of Computer Science at UIUC, Ph.D. from MIT, led AI research for Microsoft FarmBeats, President of India Gold Medalist.

Backed by the best in AI and Enterprise

Worktrace AI is funded by VCs who are leaders in smart enterprise and AI including 8VC, Conviction, OpenAI Fund, Genius Ventures, and SV Angels.

We are backed by AI pioneers who Angela and Deepak have worked with and learned from for years including Mira Murati (co-founder, Thinking Machines Lab), Jason Kwon (Chief Strategy Officer at OpenAI), Joanne Jang (Head of Product, Model Behavior at OpenAI), Ranveer Chandra (VP of Copilot Tuning at Microsoft), and Evan Sparks (former Chief Product Officer for AI at HPE).

Help us build the primary interface for AI at work and redefine how humans and AI collaborate.

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