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Co-Founder and CTO

San Francisco, CA · On-site

On top of that he advises and invests in companies, organizes hackatons, works with the best angels and mentors in the world and writes for well know startup blogs. Responsibilities: * Define, design ...

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What is a stealth startup?

A stealth startup is a new business that operates in secret, keeping its products, services, or business model hidden from the public and competitors during its early development stages. This approach allows the company to protect its intellectual property, avoid early competition, and refine its offerings before a public launch. Stealth startups may also use this period to build a strong team, develop their technology, and seek funding, all while maintaining a low profile.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive at a stealth startup, and why are they important?

To thrive at a stealth startup, you need a strong entrepreneurial mindset, adaptability, and experience in your area of expertise, often supported by a relevant degree or startup experience. Familiarity with project management tools, collaboration platforms, and, depending on your role, technical stacks like coding languages or design software is common. Initiative, resilience, and excellent communication are critical soft skills in this fast-paced, ambiguous environment. These skills enable you to navigate uncertainty, drive innovation, and contribute meaningfully to early-stage company growth.

What are some common challenges when joining a stealth startup, and how can I prepare for them?

Joining a stealth startup often means working with limited information about the company's product or market until launch, which can create ambiguity in your day-to-day tasks. You may also encounter rapidly changing priorities as the business pivots and iterates on its core idea. To succeed, it's helpful to be adaptable, proactive in seeking clarification, and comfortable making decisions with imperfect information. Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset are vital, as teams are usually small and cross-functional, requiring frequent collaboration and flexibility.
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Research Fellow - Virtual Cell

Stealth Startup

Fremont, CA • On-site

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This job post has expired today. Applications are no longer accepted.

Job description

We are a frontier artificial-intelligence laboratory, still in stealth, established for a single purpose: to build an AI capable of original discovery — a system that does not merely retrieve and recombine what is already known, but reasons toward genuinely new understanding of the problems put to it. We hold that an instrument able to truly discover is among the most consequential technologies humanity will ever build, and we are building it.


Our system has already produced results beyond the reach of any human team. We have demonstrated its power on a small number of problems. The purpose of this fellowship is to establish how far that power extends.


This is an invitation to bring a small number of researchers who will form the inaugural cohort of the Infinity Fellowship who will spend a year aiming this instrument at the hardest unsolved problems in their fields.


You choose the problems — the ones shelved because they demanded a decade. You carry each from formulation to validated result. You publish as lead author.


The terms are plain: a full-time salaried appointment of roughly one year, hybrid in the San Francisco East Bay, with relocation support and visa sponsorship for international Fellows. It pays like a strong postdoc. No background in AI is required; we weigh the ability to learn above experience with any method.


The application takes ten minutes to begin: your CV, and a few sentences on the problem you would start with. The full one-page proposal — why it has resisted solution, what its solution would make possible — can follow.


https://pfa.zto77.com/apply-biology-life-sciences


Proposals received by Aug 5 will be considered first for the inaugural cohort, which convenes in September. Every application receives an answer within a week.

Few are present, in any era, at the founding of a new instrument of discovery.

Bring the problem worth your year.


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For US Remote/Hybrid: This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. export control regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.


For International Remote: This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to applicable export control regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization.

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