About Chief

Email is overloaded. It’s the central coordination layer for the most important business workflows. But it’s also a dumping ground for everything else.

Chief is an AI email agent built for people whose most important work happens in their email. It learns who and what matters to you, parses signal from noise, and helps you make faster, better decisions.

The role

As a founding AI engineer (first 2-3 team members), you’ll be responsible for helping to architect and build the core AI infrastructure that powers Chief.

What you’ll do

• Build AI agents that actually work.
• Design and build the core knowledge graph and retrieval engine that ensures that Chief always has access to the most relevant context.
• Collaborate closely with the founding team to define product strategy and influence user-facing features.
• Own our evals setup to ensure that we have confidence in what we’re shipping to users.

Who you are

• You’ve been working and experimenting with LLMs since ChatGPT’s launch.
• Strong full-stack engineering chops.
• Excitement about early-stage startups and the opportunity to build core systems from scratch.
• Bonus: prior experience training / fine-tuning models.

The team

• Before starting Chief, JB (founder / CEO) was an early product and software engineer at Airtable (first ~15 employees).
• We raised a $2M pre-seed round from Alana Goyal @ basecase and Chad Byers @ Susa Ventures, and Howie Liu (Airtable founder / CEO) is involved as a founding investor / advisor.
• We believe that a lean team of polymaths can punch well above their weight.

If you’re excited about building the core infrastructure to redefine how people engage with their most important work tool, we’d love to talk!