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Marct AI 5/18 - Substack, Drones, Recently Stealth NLP Co, CTO search, Contrary Startup Fair and more!
Welcome to Marct AI edition #3, a curated email thread for a first-look at some exciting AI-related startup opportunities + bonus gigs.
I'll put some brief thoughts with each opportunity in italics (look for AK's thoughts) on why I decided to include it/what makes it interesting compared to the thousands of other postings on the interweb. Opportunities are full-time unless indicated otherwise. Still experimenting with the format, style, and organization so expect to see some changes.
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Full-time and Internships:
Outschool - Data Analyst: interest-based small group class for kids.
AK's thoughts:creator/passion economy marketplace redefining who can teach and what can be taught, high delta and breakout trajectory (rose 59 spots to 10th in a16z's marketplaces 100), innovative edtech company transformed forever by covid now with massive dataset.
Substack - Data Analyst: tooling making writers and writing thrive.
AK's thoughts: synthesizing and story-telling using analytics, quantifying the behaviour around writing+reading is awesome, everyone's starting a newsletter these days—Marct is written even on Substack i.e. growing market:), heavy participation as engineer in product decision and customer empathy.
Cohere - Machine Learning Enginner, Researcher, Intern: build (language) machines that understand the world.
AK's thoughts:world-class team (people who invented Transformers in "Attention is All You Need" paper), backed by friends at Radical + thought-leaders (Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, Pieterr Abbeel, Ian Goodfellow, Raqual Urtasun!), stealth-mode until last week and now scaling quickly, language models is the new frontier after CV, democratizing API.
Skydio - Research Intern: autonomous drones and intelligent aerial transportation.
AK's thoughts: convincing mission and demos, interesting intersections in research (computer vision and mapping, motion planning , dynamics and control, 3d graphics), blend work with and inform cutting-edge hardware architectures rather than just a software problem.
Kinaxis - Co-Op/Intern Software Engineer, ML Platform: agile supply-chain and operations planning for all futures.
AK's thoughts: year-long internship at one of the largest publically traded supply chains & logistics companies in Canada, personally spoke with head of ML about the amazing internship program, learn Platform/MLOps—an increasingly coveted skillset, complex systems problem upscaling dinosaur industry.
Misc, Random, Interesting Opportunities:
Pro-tip: get an internship yourself first, at one of their portfolio companies, to increase your chances of being selected as a finalist. If you depend the talent team on helping you find something, your chances as a fellow decreases dramatically.
StandOut Search is an early-stage startup in the .406 Ventures fellowship program. We are a SaaS company that helps high schools find internships and other resume-building opportunities for their students ("Handshake for High Schoolers"). Thus far, we have completed a successful beta with our first client, Rye High School, in NY and are in preliminary talks with Byram Hills and Rye Country Day. We are looking for a fourth equity co-founder to fill the role of CTO. [Mention Alex Ker as referral]
Contrary announced Startup Fair last Wednesday, which we launched alongside hyper-growth startups like Figma, Ramp, Stytch and Vise! Startup Fair is a virtual event designed for undergrad and new grad engineers, designers, and product people to meet and interview for roles at the fastest growing startups in the country - all you have to do is apply to attend.
p.s. They also run a talent fellowship program where you can meet some exceptional early-career people in tech, lmk if you need a referral the next time it opens up!
If you've read this far, a bonus tip: if a startup is small enough (<20 people), email the CEO/CTO/Hiring Manager to follow-up immediately an application often yields consistently positive results, because they care more about passion and who they are working with, rather than the strict set of skills or experiences. More on crafting a cold-message in the future! Here is a presentation I gave on this that may be helpful.
thanks for reading! let me know what you liked/didn’t, what you want to see, and if you do end up applying to something here, by emailing me at [email protected] :)
Cheers,
A.K.