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Chief of Staff

Wafer · San Francisco · On-site

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About Wafer

The fastest inference for open models. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Wafer is a very small team growing extremely quickly. At our size, there are constantly important things that do not cleanly belong to any one function. Today, many of those things end up with the CEO.

What they're looking for

  • You are extremely high agency. When something is unclear, your instinct is to figure it out rather than wait for instructions
  • You are unusually organized and detail-oriented. Things do not disappear when they are handed to you
  • You have excellent judgment and know when to make a decision yourself versus pull someone else in
  • You are comfortable switching between very different kinds of work in the same day
  • You are scrappy. You solve problems with the minimum amount of process necessary
  • You communicate extremely clearly and can represent Wafer well with customers, candidates, investors, and partners
More about this role

Our mission at Wafer is to maximize intelligence per watt by using AI to optimize AI infrastructure, achieving thousands of times better energy and cost efficiency.

We believe cheap intelligence is the most essential piece of technology for a future of abundance. And we aim to build the future with intelligence too cheap to meter.

Wafer is well funded and serves trillions of tokens a month for mission-critical workloads. We serve high-performance inference to some of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world.

We're looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with our CEO and make the company move faster. This is an unusually broad role. Your job is to take ownership of whatever important work would otherwise fall through the cracks.

One week that might mean coordinating an important customer visit, building a financial model, and helping negotiate a vendor contract. The next it might mean figuring out a new office, running a recruiting process, preparing for an investor meeting, or turning a messy strategic question into a clear decision.

You should be the kind of person we can hand an incomplete thought to and trust that it will come back finished.

Wafer is a very small...

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