Us
Ace AI is a Palo Alto company focused on accelerating enterprise in-house ML development. We see ourselves as the Palo Alto challenger to SF-based Scale AI.
We are a batch 17 company within the Plug and Play accelerator. Large corporations selected us in the top 2% out of thousands of other companies. We are working on 6 enterprise pilots with large US insurers and US banks, but this pain point exists in all verticals. We are working on 5+ ML-heavy startup pilots.
Sam
Sam is a 1x exited founder and an ex-enterprise data product manager. On June 16th, he booked a one-way flight from Montreal to make Ace a reality. He knows how enterprises and enterprise executives think and how to build a product to their taste after having interviewed hundreds of executives.
There are two main forces at play:
- In-housing: There's a reason why Nvidia's stock ticker went through the roof. Every enterprise from Tesla to Oracle to State Farm is buying up compute to in-house their ML. Data is the enterprise moat. Enterprises have been protecting their data for decades and some of them for centuries.
- Competitiveness: Enterprises and their executives are HIGHLY competitive with each other and they hunt for every micro-advantage they can get in key areas. Enterprises are building ML to increase their competitiveness.
These two forces are in conflict within enterprise ML. That pain is growing every single day, look at hurricanes Helene and Milton. Ace is the painkiller.
You
De-risked Co-Founder with an industry or academic background in ML. We're looking to hear from entrepreneurial candidates who have 8+ years exp in machine learning / deep learning and are interested in co-founding opportunities.
Our first pass on applicants will focus on candidates with notable accomplishments at market-leading companies who have strong backgrounds with ML as well.
Note: This is a hands-on IC role with significant expectations in design and development (acting as the internal and external pillar of AI in the company).
About The Role
We are seeking a visionary and entrepreneurial scientist or engineer with a strong background in machine learning and/or systems engineering to join our founding team as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Machine Learning / Agentic AI. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in building a company having an outsized impact on the world and making AI more ubiquitous in our daily lives via the enterprises that give us the products & services we use. As the CTO, you will be instrumental in driving the technological strategy and engineering execution necessary to take our innovative process from the AI lab to large-scale and complex in-house enterprise production deployments.
This is a high-impact role with significant equity ownership, reflecting your responsibilities as a co-founder and senior executive. If you are driven by the challenge of bringing cutting-edge technology to market and want to play a key role in seizing a massive opportunity, we would love to hear from you.