Founding Chief AI Scientist — General… at Electro Battle · San…

We are looking for an exceptional scientist to help shape the scientific direction of Electro Battle and lead the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence.
We believe there is an opportunity to move beyond the limitations of conventional prompt-driven AI systems and explore a fundamentally different approach to intelligence.
Our ambition is to develop an AI system capable of understanding changing environments, reasoning about complex situations, identifying what it needs to understand, independently investigating important questions, anticipating consequences and continuously improving its capabilities through experience.
This is not another opportunity to build a chatbot, an application around an existing foundation model, or a collection of specialised AI agents.

We are pursuing a much deeper scientific and engineering challenge: developing an integrated intelligence system with its own persistent understanding, reasoning capabilities, decision-making mechanisms and pathways for learning and improvement.
We are now preparing the next major stage of Noah's development and looking for a scientist who wants to help define and lead that journey.

The person we are looking forWe are looking for someone with exceptional scientific ability, intellectual independence and the ambition to work on problems that do not yet have established solutions.Someone who can move comfortably between foundational research, experimental science, model development and the architecture of an entirely new intelligence system.

You do not need to be an expert in every area below. We are particularly interested in people with exceptional depth in one or more of these fields:

• World models and learned representations: Developing internal representations of environments, relationships, dynamics and how the world changes.
• Reinforcement learning and decision intelligence: Learning to make decisions under uncertainty, evaluate consequences and improve through interaction and experience.
• Continual and online learning: Developing systems that can learn and adapt over time without relying exclusively on repeated conventional training cycles.
• Causal reasoning and predictive intelligence: Understanding mechanisms, relationships, interventions and the consequences of possible decisions.
• Self-supervised and representation learning: Developing powerful learned representations from complex and imperfect information.
• Generalisation and transfer learning: Enabling learned capabilities to transfer beyond the specific situations on which they were developed.
• Autonomous learning and scientific discovery: Systems capable of identifying knowledge gaps, discovering useful experiences and developing better capabilities through rigorous experimentation.
• Cognitive architectures and general intelligence: Research into how different capabilities can work together as one coherent intelligence.

The ideal candidate will have the scientific depth to challenge existing assumptions and the engineering judgement to turn promising research into working systems.
What you would leadAs Founding Chief Scientist, you would take substantial ownership of Noah's scientific direction and research organisation.

Your responsibilities would include:

1. Scientific vision and research strategyDefine the scientific foundations, long-term research direction and technical priorities of Noah AI.Identify the most important unsolved problems, formulate research hypotheses and determine which directions deserve investment.
*2. Core intelligence developmentLead the development of the underlying neural intelligence, learned representations, reasoning capabilities, predictive mechanisms and decision-making foundations.Ensure that individual advances contribute to one coherent intelligence architecture.
*3. Research and experimentationEstablish rigorous experimental methodology, reproducible research practices, evaluation frameworks and scientific standards.Distinguish genuine capability improvements from benchmark-specific optimisation or misleading results.
4. Research organisationBuild and lead a highly capable AI research team.Identify exceptional researchers, establish research ownership, mentor technical talent and create an environment where ambitious scientific ideas can be investigated seriously.
5. Research-to-system integrationWork closely with the engineering organisation to translate scientific developments into working, integrated capabilities.Take responsibility for ensuring that research outcomes are meaningfully connected to the underlying system rather than remaining isolated experiments.
6. Long-term scientific leadershipHelp establish Noah's research identity and shape its long-term development as an ambitious AI research company.

What makes this opportunity differentYou would not be joining an established AI organisation to improve a predefined model or work on a narrow research component.
You would have the opportunity to influence the scientific foundations, architecture, research priorities and team of an emerging AI company from an early stage.
You would work directly with the founder and have substantial influence over the company's technical and scientific direction.
We are particularly interested in scientists who want to build something new, take intellectual ownership and work on difficult problems whose solutions are not already clearly defined.

What we valueWe are interested in candidates who demonstrate:

• Exceptional research contributions and deep technical understanding.
• Strong first-principles thinking and intellectual independence.
• Experience taking research ideas through implementation and rigorous evaluation.
• The ability to identify important problems rather than simply follow existing research trends.
• Experience leading researchers, mentoring talented scientists or building research teams.
• High standards of experimental integrity and scientific reproducibility.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas and challenge assumptions constructively.
• A genuine ambition to advance the foundations of artificial intelligence.

A PhD or equivalent research experience is welcome. However, exceptional demonstrated scientific contributions matter more than credentials alone. We are not looking for someone who simply has experience using popular AI frameworks or integrating existing APIs. We are looking for a scientist capable of shaping new intelligence research.

Who should consider this opportunity?
You might be a senior research scientist, principal scientist, research director, research group leader, professor, frontier-model researcher or an exceptional independent researcher.

You may currently be working at a major AI research laboratory, a leading technology company, a university or an ambitious AI startup.We are interested in people whose work demonstrates exceptional scientific ability, regardless of their current title.

Location and engagementWe are particularly interested in exceptional candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.We are open to discussing location and working arrangements with the right candidate.

This is a founding scientific leadership search. We are beginning conversations ahead of our next development and financing phase, with the formal appointment and start aligned with completion of the required financing milestone.

The compensation structure and meaningful equity participation will be discussed individually with suitable candidates.

We are not simply looking for someone to lead an AI team. We are looking for a scientist who wants to help define what comes next.
If that describes you, we would like to hear from you.