Job Title: Founding ML Engineer / CTO Company Name: Shado Ventures Job Url: https://wellfound.com/jobs/3876217-founding-ml-engineer-cto Job Description: Shado Venutres The first AI platform automating death administration for the 3.3 million American families Save Apply Now Founding ML Engineer / CTO $180k – $220k • 3.0% – 5.0% | Remote ( Everywhere ) |5 years of exp |Full Time Posted: today• Recruiter recently active Hires remotely in Everywhere Remote Work Policy Remote only Company Location Miami Visa Sponsorship Not Available Preferred Timezones Eastern Time, Central European Time Collaboration Hours 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM Eastern Time Relocation Allowed Skills Python Machine Learning Computer Vision Documentation OCR Deep Learning Jinja2 TensorFlow NLP PyTorch LLMs GPT4 Claude LLM Frameworks (Langchain, Claude, LLamaIndex) RAG Technologies Embedding Models Vect About the job The Founding Opportunity Shado Venutres is looking for its first engineer and future CTO. This role begins as a 3-week paid sprint ($15,000) to build our proof-of-concept, transitioning to Founding CTO (3-5% equity, $180,000-220,000) upon seed close in April 2026.** Why This Exists When someone dies, families face 500 hours of administrative work—notify Social Security, Medicare, banks, cancel subscriptions—all without the deceased's passwords. 3.3 million American families face this every year. No AI automation exists. We're building the first. The Sprint ($15,000 for 3/4 weeks) Build our investor-grade proof-of-concept: • Death certificate parser (GPT-4 Vision/Claude, 95% accuracy) • Legal document generator (15+ institution-specific templates) • Demo UI (Streamlit or React) • Investor demo video $7,500 upfront + $7,500 delivery The CTO Role (After Sprint) If we're both excited about working together: • Title: Founding CTO / Founding Engineer (your choice) • Equity: 3-5% (4-year vest, 1-year cliff) • Salary: $180,000-220,000 • Role: Build entire AfterLight platform, hire engineering team • Start: After $3.5M seed close (April 2026) What You'll Own You will make all technical decisions: • AI/ML architecture (GPT-4 Vision vs Claude, fine-tuning strategy) • Infrastructure (cloud provider, scaling approach) • Product velocity (engineering process, tools) • Team building (hire your own team post-seed) This is not a "senior engineer" role. This is "build the company" role. What We Need Must have: ✓ 5+ years production ML/AI engineering ✓ GPT-4 or Claude API in production (not experimentation) ✓ GitHub showing LLM projects (we review code, not just resumes) ✓ Available within 2-4 weeks ✓ 30-40 hrs/week for sprint Nice to have: Document parsing/OCR experience Startup experience (even personal projects) Built something from 0 to 1 before The Market $5-7B underserved market, zero AI automation competitors. Strategic acquirers identified (Rocket Companies, Trust & Will, Fidelity/Schwab). You're not joining a company. You're co-building one. Apply Contact: Noa James Email: noa@shado.ventures Include: GitHub profile (we review your actual code) One GPT-4/Claude project you've shipped (problem, results, link) Availability (start date, hours/week) Technical approach: How would you parse death certificates at 95% accuracy?