LG Electronics
Founder-in-Residence, Core AI Ventures (LG NOVA)
$180K–$240K
Santa Clara, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; prior business-building/commercialization experience and prior fundraising are requested.
About the job
Found and validate a new AI-native software venture, testing demand and commercial viability before potentially leading it as Founder and CEO.
What you'll do
- Develop a venture thesis and conduct buyer discovery to validate the problem, economic buyer, and willingness to pay.
- Test paid pilots, design partnerships, or early offerings and secure concrete customer commitments.
- Build a commercialization plan and business model based on market evidence.
What they ask for
- Founder, repeat founder, or founding executive experience.
- Deep expertise and credibility in a specific industry or problem space, with access to buyers and decision makers.
- Track record of building, commercializing, or scaling something new; have raised funding before.
- Experience building, leading, or commercializing businesses at the core AI layer or adjacent products/tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with reusable AI infrastructure, platforms, or developer tooling.
- Understanding of the AI lifecycle, including model training or fine tuning, evaluation, deployment, inference, optimization, and production-scale operation; hands-on engineering is valuable but not required.
Pay
$180,000 to $200,000 USD annualized equivalent (Sprint 1 base pay); $200,000 to $240,000 USD annualized equivalent (Sprint 2 base pay); $180,000 — $200,000 USD (Recruiting Range; base salary)
AI focus
Develop an AI-native software venture focused on core AI infrastructure or adjacent products/tools, and validate its commercial potential.
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