Member of Technical Staff — Company Building
Mirendil· Operations
San Francisco$200k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Frontier AI research company role focused on building the company itself, working with founders, early customers, and special projects to enable rapid growth and execution.
Responsibilities
- Founder leverage. Drive the founders' highest-priority initiatives while providing day-to-day operational support to keep them focused on critical conversations, coordinating priorities, and turning decisions into execution.
- Zero to one with our first customers. Take first customers from zero to one, shape positioning, land early design partners, run pilots end-to-end, and scale motions with Business and Operations.
- Company operating rhythm. Build and run systems for planning cycles, goal tracking and internal KPIs, internal communications, and cross-team execution; ensure decisions are made, tracked, and followed through.
- Special projects. Tackle high-priority, least-owned tasks such as partnership negotiations, launches, landscape analyses, or operational fires.
Qualifications
- MS or PhD in CS, EE, physics, math, or another STEM field, plus a few years in industry as an engineer, scientist, or researcher
- Ability to read a paper and participate credibly in ML systems discussions; capable of engaging with frontier researchers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to distill technical depth into crisp decisions and narratives for investors, partners, and customers
- Structured thinker with analytical rigor; able to decompose open-ended problems, prioritize ruthlessly, and execute quickly
- Extremely high energy and endurance for an intense, all-in role at a frontier-lab pace
- Bias toward action and low ego; highly resourceful and ready to perform across roles
Skills
Required:Strategic operations and program managementInvestor and partner communicationsTechnical comprehension in frontier ML/AI
Benefits
- Base salary of $200,000–$350,000 USD annually
- Meaningful equity grant
- Competitive benefits
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Mirendil
Mirendil — a frontier lab building systems that excel at AI R&D.
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