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Job description
Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Boston/Cambridge
Compensation: $150K–$300K base salary + meaningful co-founder equity
Stage: Revenue-generating, 30-person team — now building our U.S. founding team
Zeteon.ai builds an AI research agent for real scientific workflows . Our platform runs the research loop end to end — from literature and scientific reasoning to hypothesis generation, experiment design, computational execution and analysis — and delivers reproducible papers and artifacts.
We are not starting from zero. Zeteon.ai already has a 30-person team, a product in use, and revenue . We're headquartered in Singapore and are now establishing our U.S. entity. You would be joining a company that already works — and leading what it becomes in the U.S.
The Role
We're looking for a U.S. Co-Founder to lead Zeteon.ai in the United States.
This is first and foremost a product and research role . Most of your time goes into building: deciding what the research agent should do, running it on real scientific problems, and making it measurably better. You'll also own the U.S. market — the relationships with labs and universities that tell us what to build next.
Roughly 70% product and research, 30% U.S. market and partnerships.
What You’ll Do
Product & Research
Own the product direction of our research agent alongside the founding team
Design, build and evaluate agent workflows for high-value scientific use cases
Run computational experiments on real research problems and turn what you learn into product improvements
Define how we measure quality — benchmarks and evaluations for scientific reasoning, experiment design and reproducibility
Work hands-on with our engineering and research team to ship
Turn researcher feedback into a clear product and research roadmap
U.S. Market
Lead Zeteon.ai's U.S. presence and growth
Recruit professors, postdocs and research labs as design partners and early users
Build partnerships with universities, research institutions and AI4S communities
Represent Zeteon.ai at research conferences and AI events
Help hire our U.S. team and shape company strategy
Who You Are
PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or AI/ML — completed or in your final year
Strong technical depth: you've built ML systems, research software or agents, not only written papers
Hands-on experience with LLMs, agents or scientific computing
Research taste — you know which scientific problems matter and what good evidence looks like
Based in, or willing to relocate to, the San Francisco Bay Area or Boston/Cambridge
Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese — you'll work closely every day with our team
Clear communicator, equally comfortable in a lab meeting and a product review
You want founder-level ownership and the leverage of a team that's already in place
Nice to have:
Publications in AI for science or ML venues
Depth in a scientific domain such as biology, chemistry, materials or physics
Startup or open-source experience
Why Zeteon.ai
Founder-level ownership without starting from scratch — a 30-person team, a live product and revenue behind you
Direct influence over the product and research direction of an AI-for-science platform
Lead the U.S. from day one — you'll build our U.S. team and presence
Compensation
$150K–$300K base salary, depending on experience and scope, plus meaningful co-founder equity.
This is a product-and-research co-founder role, not a business development position . You'll have direct influence on what we build, how we measure it, and how Zeteon.ai grows in the U.S.
If you want to go beyond publishing papers — to build the infrastructure for scientific discovery and lead it in the U.S. — we'd love to hear from you.
Zeteon.ai is an equal opportunity employer.
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Worksite address
boston, MA, 02298, US
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