Senior Associate Builder

LandingAI, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Carried interest

Virtual shares in AI Fund

Job summary

LandingAI, Inc. is seeking a hands-on AI prototyper to work with elite founders and commercial partners to shape new company ideas.

You will build prototypes, run user research, and translate feedback into market signals, while supporting founders during a 12-week Build program with practical product design and go-to-market work. The role emphasizes rigorous analysis, writing scrappy, disposable code for rapid experiments, and maintaining a strong curiosity for frontier AI through ongoing

Qualifications

• Understanding of frontier AI and how to translate research into production systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partners and founders to identify and validate new company ideas.
• Build prototypes to answer open questions, starting simple and adding complexity as needed.
• Run user research and translate learnings into market signals.
• Support 12-week Build program with hands-on product design and GTM work.
• Present findings to team and potential founders with clear decisions and next steps.
• Continuously learn from papers and technical writeups and fold insights into the next build.

Skills

Frontier AI understanding

Hands-on AI coding

Rigorous communication

Education

STEM or research degree

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

What you'll do

• Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.
• Build prototypes that answer the open question about an idea. Start with the simplest design that works and add complexity only when the evidence calls for it.
• Put prototypes in front of users, run user research, and turn what you hear into clear market signal.
• Support partners and founders during the 12-week Build with hands-on product design and go-to-market work.
• Present what you learned to the team and to potential founders: what worked, what failed, and what they need to decide next.
• Stay at the frontier by reading papers, model cards, and technical writeups, and fold what you learn into the next build.

What you need

• Technical ability, a real understanding of frontier AI, and hands-on experience coding with AI.
• Experience as an engineer, product manager, product designer, or in go-to-market.
• Hands-on experience building GenAI applications, such as LLM calls, RAG, agentic workflows, and evals.
• Skill with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, directing them to ship working software while you own the quality bar.
• The judgment to write scrappy, disposable code for a fast prototype and clean code when it needs to last.
• Personal experience and interest in building, hacking, and prototyping.
• The ability to communicate with rigor and back your views with analysis.
• A STEM or research degree from a top research university, or an equivalent background where you've built the same rigor.

Who this is for

• Someone with real intellectual range who gets up to speed on a new space quickly and makes everyone around them smarter about it.
• A builder who ships MVPs fast and still builds on weekends because staying at the frontier is what they'd do anyway.
• Long-term incentives, including carried interest and virtual shares in AI Fund.