AI-powered benefits navigation helping community health centers improve patient outcomes and drive revenue. Backed by Pear VC.
About the role
NomadicML is entering a phase of rapid growth—expanding our partnerships with top autonomy companies and accelerating our research into video-reasoning models. We’re seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the founders on the company’s most critical strategic, operational, and communication initiatives.
What they're looking for
- A strong analytical and organizational mindset, you can simplify chaos into a clear plan
- Exceptional writing and communication skills—you can draft crisp memos, investor updates, and presentations
- Deep curiosity about AI, machine learning, or technical products —you’re excited to learn how things actually work
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous, founder-driven environment
- A bias for action and ownership, you don’t wait for direction, you create it
More about this role
Americans drive over 5 trillion miles a year, more than 500 billion of them recorded. Buried in that footage is the next frontier of machine intelligence. At NomadicML, we’re building the platform that unlocks it.
Our Vision-Language Models (VLMs) act as the new “hydraulic mining” for video, transforming raw footage into structured intelligence that powers real-world autonomy and robotics. We partner with industry leaders across self-driving, robotics, and industrial automation to mine insights from petabytes of data that were once unusable.
NomadicML was founded by Mustafa Bal and Varun Krishnan , who met at Harvard University while studying Computer Science.
Mustafa is a core contributor to ONNX Runtime and DeepSpeed with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale model training infrastructure
Varun is an INFORMS Wagner Prize Finalist for his research in large-scale driver navigation AI models and one of the top chess players in the US.
Our team has built mission-critical AI systems at Snowflake, Lyft, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM Research , holds top-tier publications in VLMS and AI at conferences like CVPR , and moves with the speed and clarity of a startup obsessed...
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