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Sieve · San Francisco · On-site

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About Sieve

High-quality video, audio, image, and interaction data for frontier AI. Backed by Y Combinator and AI Grant.

About the role

Build trusted relationships with researchers, data leaders, product teams, and executives at frontier AI labs and emerging model companies Identify and engage new labs while opening relationships with additional teams and buying centers inside existing customers

What they're looking for

  • Deep familiarity with the frontier AI lab and AI data ecosystem, with an existing network or demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships within it
  • Experience in strategic business development, partnerships, investing, company-building, or another relationship-driven role in AI
  • Strong understanding of how foundation models are trained and improved, including the role of pretraining, post-training, evaluations, human data, multimodal data, and RL environments
  • The technical judgment to understand what makes data useful for training and to hold credible conversations with AI researchers and technical leaders
  • Exceptional relationship-building skills and the judgment to know which people, organizations, and opportunities matter
  • Ability to communicate fluently with researchers, founders, executives, operators, and commercial stakeholders
More about this role

Sieve is a multi-modal lab curating the world's highest-quality training datasets — spanning video, audio, images, text, and 3D. We combine exabyte-scale data infrastructure and novel multimodal understanding techniques that push the frontier of foundation models. Video alone makes up 80% of internet traffic, and across modalities, data has become the enabling medium powering creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Sieve exists to solve the biggest bottleneck in the growth of these applications: high-quality training data.

We partner with top AI labs and did $XXM last quarter alone, as a team of ~30 people. We also raised our Series A from Tier 1 firms such as Matrix Partners , Swift Ventures , Y Combinator , and AI Grant .

Sieve is one of the most capital-efficient teams in AI — roughly 30 people serving the world's leading AI labs across every major data modality. You'll join early, own problems end-to-end, and watch your work ship directly into the models defining the frontier.

About the Role

As the first business development person, you'll build and deepen relationships across frontier AI labs, emerging model companies, and the broader data ecosystem. You'll...

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