Sr. AI Software Engineer (C#/.Net, infrastructure & startup exp. req'd) - 100% REMOTE JobotSr. AI Software Engineer (C#/.Net, infrastructure & startup exp. req'd) - 100% REMOTESan Francisco, CARemote$170,000–$270,000 / yearThe ideal candidate will be mid-level backend .Net Software Engineer with recent experience within a small, fast-paced, API-focused AI infrastructure startup company with lean, highly collaborative engineering teams, where they have operated with significant ownership, autonomy, and a strong “go-getter” mentality. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal.
Senior AI Engineer JobotSenior AI EngineerSan Francisco, CA$225,000–$280,000 / yearInformation collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal. The product sits at the intersection of AI, automation, and real world impact, using LLMs and agentic systems to replace hours or weeks of manual work with intelligent, scalable software.
Sr Worldwide Specialist - GenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Data & AI GTM Amazon Web Services, Inc.Sr Worldwide Specialist - GenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Data & AI GTMSan Francisco, CAThis involves activities including market sizing, working with your counterparts from across the globe to build an opportunity pipeline, working with customers to understand technical requirements, creating content to train the field teams, driving industry thought-leadership, working with product teams to define new features, and identifying partners. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, representing your team to executive management and working directly with AWS's top customers.
NewFraud Risk AI Data Sci Vaco LLCFraud Risk AI Data SciOakland, CA$65–$90Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to: the individual’s skill sets, experience and training; licensure and certification requirements; office location and other geographic considerations; other business and organizational needs. Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs.
NewCFD & CAD Expert — AI Evaluation & Quality Review BraintrustCFD & CAD Expert — AI Evaluation & Quality ReviewSan Francisco / Bay Area, CAIn this project-based role, you will review, annotate, and evaluate highly technical engineering content, applying your domain expertise to ensure the accuracy and quality of datasets used for AI training. We are seeking a Mechanical Engineering expert with advanced CAD and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experience to support a leading AI lab developing next-generation engineering AI models.
NewAnalyst, Applied AI Solutions Visa Technology and Operations LLCAnalyst, Applied AI SolutionsSan Francisco, CA$123,000–$190,900 / yearWe are hiring an Analyst of Applied AI Solutions to sit within a small, applied AI pod that will embed directly into North America business teams (beginning with Sales and the Business Operations/Regional President Executive Office team) to design and deliver practical, high impact AI solutions that improve how work gets done. As one of the first teams of its kind at Visa, this role is well suited for an entrepreneurial builder who enjoys tackling unfamiliar challenges, building relationships across the organization, and finding creative paths forward when the tools, processes, and playbook are still being developed.
NewStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI Engineering Visa Technology and Operations LLCStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI EngineeringFoster City, CA$169,100–$270,800 / yearAs an AI Engineer in AI Governance engineering team, you will have the unique chance to make a direct and meaningful impact by building and delivering solutions that power AI Governance engineering solutions. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Senior Manager, AI Observatory Product Manager Visa Technology and Operations LLCSenior Manager, AI Observatory Product ManagerFoster City, CA$180,600–$289,300 / yearVisa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Experience with AI product development, technology platforms, and engineering with proven ability to build new capabilities, drive organizational impact, and act as change agent are critical to success.
NewSenior Staff Engineer, AI Governance Visa Technology and Operations LLCSenior Staff Engineer, AI GovernanceFoster City, CA$192,200–$307,700 / yearExperienced with high-performance imperative languages including Python, Java, Golang, React.js, Next.js • Built predictive models using Python and ML libraries and managed their lifecycle, from development to production. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
NewLead Specialist, Federal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering KPMGLead Specialist, Federal Artificial Intelligence (AI) EngineeringSan Francisco, CA$127,490–$262,200 / yearWork with clients to discover data sources and create date requests; lead data discovery, ETL/ELT processes to ingest structured data / annotation processes to enrich unstructured data leveraging a variety of data sources (social media, news, internal / external documents, images, video, voice, emails, financial data, and operational data). If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Advisory.
NewLead AI Engineer Actava.ai, Inc.Lead AI EngineerPleasanton, CA$215,000–$240,000 / yearFull timeActava.ai, Inc. seeks a Lead AI Engineer (LAIE-2601) in Pleasanton, CA to design, develop, & implement AI and s/w systems to support enterprise-level applications. in Python, LlamaIndex, FastAPI, REST API, JavaScript, AngularJS & SQL.
Senior AI Product Engineer VortexlinkSenior AI Product EngineerBelmont, CARemoteFull timeModern AI tools have merged the work of product, design, and engineering, and this role does all three: you understand the customer and the problems the product solves, you design the solution, and you ship the code. You come from an engineering background and bring deep authority on clean, scalable, product-quality code and architecture, with a real hand in design and product.
Sr. Manager, People Technology and AI Enablement Blue Shield of CASr. Manager, People Technology and AI EnablementOakland, CAFull timeIn this role, you will work collaboratively across People & Engagement COEs, enterprise IT, Finance, Analytics & Reporting, Planning, and external partners to evaluate vendor solutions, design, build, and implement technology solutions, and enhance deployed applications. The People & Engagement Technology team is a critical member of the Corporate Platform in the IT Applications organization and is responsible for providing technical and functional leadership for multiple HR Technology products within the Corporate Platform.
Threat Intel - AI / LLM Trainer - Make Your Own Hours RemotasksThreat Intel - AI / LLM Trainer - Make Your Own HoursSan Francisco, CARemoteCandidates should have significant (multiple years) of experience in at least one of the following areas: - Analyzing, triaging, and responding to cyber security incidents and investigations, particularly in response to recent vulnerabilities. This role is an exceptional opportunity to work at the cutting edge nexus of AI and Cyber Security, contributing to the development of smarter, more efficient systems capable of defending against the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.
Enterprise AI adoption lead (West) Writer IncEnterprise AI adoption lead (West)San Francisco, CAYoull partner closely with a Transformation lead to identify the right WRITER capabilities for each use case, then design and execute the strategies that drive meaningful adoption: building champion networks, running customized workshops, and advising customers on how to scale their AI programs over time. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and were looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.
Strategic AI adoption lead (West) Writer IncStrategic AI adoption lead (West)San Francisco, CAYoull partner closely with a Transformation lead to identify the right WRITER capabilities for each use case, then design and execute the strategies that drive meaningful adoption: building champion networks, running customized workshops, and advising customers on how to scale their AI programs over time. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and were looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.
Technical AI Instructor and Forward-Deployed Engineer (Consultant) Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LtdTechnical AI Instructor and Forward-Deployed Engineer (Consultant)San Francisco, CA$80,400–$148,000 / yearKey Responsibilities Include: Teaching Technical AI Skills: Develop and deliver comprehensive training programs on generative AI technologies, including tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Airtable, and platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.
NewAI Engineer Ursus, Inc.AI EngineerFoster City, CA$180,000–$220,000 / yearThis is a builder role end-to-end: design and ship agentic systems from tool interface through deployment, observability, and iteration working closely with product and customers. Design and build MCP servers that expose data and analytics as discoverable, reliable tools for AI agents, with proper auth, scoping, and access controls.
Senior Lead AI Solutions Consultant Braze IncSenior Lead AI Solutions ConsultantSan Francisco, CABraze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America's Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology by Great Place To Work. For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $130,000 and $195,000/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $183,000 and $274,000/year (including bonus or commission).
Senior Lead AI Solutions Consultant BrazeSenior Lead AI Solutions ConsultantSan Francisco, CABraze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $130,000 and $195,000/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $183,000 and $274,000/year (including bonus or commission).
Product Design Engineer, AI Employee Experience: 26-01541 Akraya Inc.Product Design Engineer, AI Employee Experience: 26-01541San Francisco, CARemote$80–$90 / hourMost recently, we were recognized Stevie Employer of the Year 2025, SIA Best Staffing Firm to work for 2025, Inc 5000 Best Workspaces in US (2025 & 2024) and Glassdoor's Best Places to Work (2023 & 2022)! This role requires experience in designing internal tools for non-technical end users, with a focus on delivering consumer-grade product quality.
Senior Account Executive, SLED | AI Platform Transforming Government & Higher Education | $270K OTE + Equity Bundoran GroupSenior Account Executive, SLED | AI Platform Transforming Government & Higher Education | $270K OTE + EquitySan Francisco, CA$100,000–$135,000 / yearOur client is emerging as one of the most compelling platforms in this rapidly evolving market—helping state agencies, municipalities, and higher education institutions move beyond isolated tools and manual processes into a modern system of execution powered by automation, workflow intelligence, and AI. For accomplished SLED sellers who want to move beyond traditional software sales and help shape how public sector organizations operate in the AI era, this represents a rare opportunity to combine meaningful impact, strong earnings potential, and long-term career growth.
Founding Enterprise Account Executive | AI Developer Tools | $300K-$400K OTE Bundoran GroupFounding Enterprise Account Executive | AI Developer Tools | $300K-$400K OTESan Francisco, CA$150,000–$200,000 / yearWe're looking for an experienced enterprise seller who thrives in technical sales environments, enjoys working directly with founders, and wants to help build a world-class enterprise sales organization from the ground up. You'll play a meaningful role in shaping go-to-market strategy, developing outbound motions, influencing product direction, and helping define how the company scales its enterprise business.
NewRemote AI Design Evaluation Specialist ProlificRemote AI Design Evaluation SpecialistSan Francisco, CARemoteApplicants should have formal education in graphic design and extensive experience with design tools like Figma and Adobe. A forward-thinking tech company is seeking an AI Trainer specializing in visual and graphic design to evaluate AI outputs.
Senior AI Platform Engineer SS&C Technologies Holdings IncSenior AI Platform EngineerSan Francisco, CAWe are building a next-generation Agentic AI Framework that integrates Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, Machine Learning, and advanced orchestration on top of our enterprise big data platform. These engineers will design and implement the core AI framework, ensuring it seamlessly integrates with our big data infrastructure, and enabling scalable, intelligent, and autonomous data-driven systems.
Principal Product Manager, AI ZipHQ IncPrincipal Product Manager, AISan Francisco, CA$200,000–$280,000 / yearOwn the quality bar for AI experiences end to end, designing the evals, rollout gates, guardrails, and feedback loops that let customers trust agents to act on their behalf, and holding the line on accuracy and reliability even as capabilities expand. Zip recently launched Superagents: LLM-powered teammates that take on the repetitive, low-value work drowning procurement, AP, risk, and legal teams so those teams can focus on strategic work.
Software Engineer, Agentic AI Infrastructure Anrok, Inc.Software Engineer, Agentic AI InfrastructureSan Francisco, CARemoteWere looking for an engineer who pairs a strong distributed-systems background with real, hands-on experience building AI agent systems-someone who understands both how to make a service fault-tolerant and what it takes to make an LLM-powered agent reliable in production. Youre curious and motivated to learn new tools-youve experimented with AI in your work or on your own, youre excited about whats possible, and youve built something with it (an application, a workflow, a creative solution to a real problem) that you can walk us through.
Product Security Engineer, Senior & Lead (Enterprise Security - Security AI) Salesforce IncProduct Security Engineer, Senior & Lead (Enterprise Security - Security AI)San Francisco, CA$148,500–$260,100 / yearLead by performing in-depth and high-quality security assessments of emerging technology (AI tooling, agentic platforms, etc.) including architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests. In this role, you will partner with business stakeholders and technology partners to assess and maintain the security of AI tooling, ensuring they meet or exceed Salesforce security requirements when deploying AI at scale.
Senior Account Executive , AI & Digital Natives (Bay Area) Atlassian CorpSenior Account Executive , AI & Digital Natives (Bay Area)San Francisco, CAInside sales creates volume pipeline, works smaller opportunities, and helps surface warm signals, while Senior Account Executives focus on the highest-priority accounts and the most visible commercial moments. Winning here requires more than traditional territory coverage: it requires local ecosystem knowledge, crisp value articulation, and the ability to engage the people shaping these companies early, including founders, CTOs, operators, and the VCs around them.
Senior Manager, AI Solutions Architect Salesforce IncSenior Manager, AI Solutions ArchitectCA$172,500–$260,100 / yearOwn agent identity and session design - author and maintain agent context files (identity files, session startup protocols, memory structures, and skill definitions) that govern how agents behave consistently across sessions, users, and evolving workflows. LLM context file design as a craft - knows how to write durable agent context (identity, memory, startup protocols, skill definitions) that holds up across sessions - not one-off prompts, but role-level design.
Senior Manager - Crisis Response, Exercise & AI Integration Salesforce IncSenior Manager - Crisis Response, Exercise & AI IntegrationSan Francisco, CA$143,400–$216,900 / yearYou'll serve as the primary operational connector across our Regional Incident Management Teams (RIMTs), Global Operations Center (GOC), Internal Communications, Physical Security, Legal, HR, and regional business leaders - ensuring our resilience framework scales seamlessly alongside our global footprint and an evolving threat landscape. This is a high-visibility, high-engagement role operating at the sharp end of incident response - driving a technology-first, hyper-scalable operation that leverages automation and AI to modernize how Salesforce prepares for, responds to, and recovers from enterprise-scale events.
Lead AI Engineer, Data Solutions Salesforce IncLead AI Engineer, Data SolutionsCA$172,500–$260,100 / yearThis role focuses on developing intelligent decisioning systems and building an agent flywheel-a system of feedback loops that continuously evaluate, optimize, and improve agent performance over time. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Principal AI Engineer Salesforce IncPrincipal AI EngineerCA$172,500–$313,700 / yearYou'll build and maintain the core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services that underpin our machine learning initiatives and go further in designing the harnesses, sandboxes, and evaluation frameworks that let AI agents be developed, tested, and trusted in production. Implement evaluation frameworks for agent behavior using a combination of vendor, open source or in house built tools - covering task success, tool selection accuracy, trajectory evaluation, hallucination rates, latency, and cost.
AI Software Engineer (Fullstack) Clearstory Technologies IncAI Software Engineer (Fullstack)Walnut Creek, CAIn this role, you'll own AI agents end-to-end: from scoping a workflow with product, to designing prompts and tools, to building the eval harnesses that prove the agent works, to shipping the surfaces where the agent shows up in our product. You'll work directly with our Head of AI, product leaders, and senior engineers to ship agents that move the needle for general contractors, specialty contractors, and owners managing billions of dollars in change orders every month.
Founding US Account Executive - Agentic AI Humaans Software UK LTDFounding US Account Executive - Agentic AISan Francisco, CATo date, we've raised $20m in venture funding from some of the most respected founders, operators, and funds in technology: Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Dylan Field (Figma), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Claire Johnson (Stripe), Oliver Jay (OpenAI), Jay Simmons (Bond) as well as Y Combinator, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, Pathlight Ventures, and Exor. A hunter mentality: you enjoy opening doors, staying persistent, and earning attention High tolerance for rejection - "no" doesn't slow you down, it sharpens your thinking Comfort operating in ambiguity: changing priorities, evolving messaging, partial context Bias toward action: you iterate rather than wait You naturally use AI and data to work smarter and increase leverage.
AI Engineer - SF Aegis AIAI Engineer - SFSan Francisco, CaliforniaDespite 30+ years of combined AI experience on the founding team, we know today’s landscape changes too fast to rest on credentials. Now, we’re striking out on our own to tackle an even bigger challenge: stopping the new wave of adversarial AI attacks already hitting organizations today.
Forward -Deployed Engineer, AI Platforms, SF CalliereForward -Deployed Engineer, AI Platforms, SFSan Francisco, CaliforniaYou will lead POCs, debug gnarly integrations, and partner directly with customer engineering and security teams to get from âthis is coolâ to âthis is running in prod.â. Depth in at least one relevant area such as identity and auth, security tooling, agent frameworks, protocol / integration design, networking, deployment, or observability.
Principal AI Platform Engineer NextdataPrincipal AI Platform EngineerSan Francisco, CaliforniaYou will build the product capabilities that allow AI systems to discover the right data, understand its meaning, request access, execute safe actions, and return reliable answers with context, lineage, and policy enforcement. The Principal AI Platform Engineer at Nextdata designs and builds the interfaces, systems, and agents that make governed enterprise data usable by both humans and AI agents.
Founding AI Engineer Semble AIFounding AI EngineerSan Francisco, CaliforniaThe $600B building-system integration industry still runs on spreadsheets and hand-drawn markups, even as building codes evolve rapidly and grow more localized. As a founding engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders to own and build systems such as: Vision pipelines that segment rooms, walls, and architectural elements from noisy PDFs/CAD files.
AI Strategy Lead Broccoli AIAI Strategy LeadSan Francisco, CaliforniaOwn the outcome on each account: make sure every location is getting the highest value from the AI products it runs today, quantify it in hard numbers (ROI, EBITDA impact, revenue, conversion, labor savings), and turn frontline results into reporting for customer leadership. You lead those teams and own the outcome : ensuring every account gets the most from what it has today and has a clear path to realizing additional value over time across products and locations.
Software Engineer III - AI Services GuidewireSoftware Engineer III - AI ServicesSan Mateo, CaliforniaAt Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes. Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases (vector DBs), AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
AI Operations Lead Broccoli AIAI Operations LeadSan Francisco, CaliforniaYou will sit on the Strategy & Ops team and own a portfolio of internal builds: dashboards that surface the right metrics to the right people, internal tools that eliminate manual work, and AI agents that act as force multipliers across sales, CS, and operations (an assistant sales agent that drafts follow-ups and surfaces account intel, an assistant CSM agent that flags churn risk and preps QBRs, and more). We work with plumbing, HVAC, and electrical contractors — the people who keep homes running — and we replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with AI agents that actually do the work .
AI Strategist CruciblAI StrategistSan Francisco, CaliforniaWho You'll Work With Our founders bring deep technology experience (Google-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users) and domain expertise in high-stakes business decisions from top consulting and private equity firms. Now imagine doing it with AI as your co-pilot instead of a team of analysts grinding through spreadsheets at 2 AM — and then turning what you learn in the field directly into the next version of the platform.
Senior AI Engineer - Agent Team FurtherAISenior AI Engineer - Agent TeamSan Francisco, CaliforniaNote that this is not a model-training role - you’ll be building orchestration and reasoning systems on top of existing LLMs (think Claude-Code over Claude-Model). Our customers include some of the largest names in insurance (we recently closed a top 5 insurance company in the world), and our team combines deep AI expertise with proven company-building experience.
Software Engineer, Applied AI CHAOS IndustriesSoftware Engineer, Applied AISan Francisco, CaliforniaPerform research and build products by working with product and mission teams to research, collect data, verify hypothesis and create robust, testable, maintainable, and deployable models. You should be comfortable operating with independence, learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly, working across disparate teams, and moving prototypes toward production with limited oversight.
Applied AI Engineer AutomatApplied AI EngineerSan Francisco, CaliforniaIn this role, you'll collaborate closely with forward-deployed engineers and end users, developing innovative tools for both internal teams and external customers. We're redefining Enterprise AI Agents (Robotic Process Automation) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), developing the necessary tooling and infrastructure to incorporate the advancements of AI into practical, real-world applications.
NewAI Forward Deployed Engineer - SAP Ariba ZipHQ IncAI Forward Deployed Engineer - SAP AribaSan Francisco, CA$130,000–$170,000 / yearAs an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed directly inside our most strategic accounts, uncover the operational problems that are hardest to see from the outside, and build working solutions using Zips agent infrastructure and AppStudio. You will work where Zips platform meets real enterprise complexity, across procurement, finance, legal, and risk workflows, and you will be expected to see what needs to exist before the customer can articulate it.
Specialist Account Executive, AI & Data driven Agentic Transformation Salesforce IncSpecialist Account Executive, AI & Data driven Agentic TransformationCA$99,500–$247,800 / yearYou will operate as a trusted advisor, guiding customers through complex, multi-cloud solutions and demonstrating how Salesforce delivers measurable business value through AI-powered outcomes. We are seeking a driven, technically fluent sales professional with experience selling complex, multi-product SaaS solutions and a strong understanding of AI and data-driven technologies.
NewAI Forward Deployed Engineer - Procurement/Legal ZipHQ IncAI Forward Deployed Engineer - Procurement/LegalSan Francisco, CA$130,000–$170,000 / yearAs an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed directly inside our most strategic accounts, uncover the operational problems that are hardest to see from the outside, and build working solutions using Zips agent infrastructure and AppStudio. You will work where Zips platform meets real enterprise complexity, across procurement, finance, legal, and risk workflows, and you will be expected to see what needs to exist before the customer can articulate it.
Senior Account Executive, AI & Digital Natives Atlassian CorpSenior Account Executive, AI & Digital NativesCARemoteInside sales creates volume pipeline, works smaller opportunities, and helps surface warm signals, while Senior Account Executives focus on the highest-priority accounts and the most visible commercial moments. Winning here requires more than traditional territory coverage: it requires local ecosystem knowledge, crisp value articulation, and the ability to engage the people shaping these companies early, including founders, CTOs, operators, and the VCs around them.