Sierra Studio

Sierra Studio

Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)

United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 401 days ago
Machine LearningData ScienceLLMsA/B TestingRoadmappingResearchLeadership

About the role

  • We're based in Los Angeles, but our teammates live all around the world.
  • The idea of an EIR has existed for a while.
  • Mostly in the context of the venture studio model, in which traditional VC is combined with some sort of talent program to incubate businesses.

Responsibilities

  • We take risks, learn fast, and build with curiosity.
  • No egos here - just people helping people build.
  • You can openly collaborate on your incubation and use our environment as a playground to explore new ideas.

Skills

  • Gain rapid exposure to a variety of domains and technologies
  • Identify recurring patterns and unmet needs across industries

Compensation

  • Strong systems thinking
  • Clear communicator across ideas and execution
  • Emotionally intelligent and low ego
  • Background in engineering, product, or an industry domain
  • Deep understanding of (or excitement about) AI-first thinking
  • Strong product sense or design chops

Benefits

  • High curiosity and fast learning ability
  • Our engineering & hiring services work is a unique opportunity to explore different domains and technologies in a short time to inspire your future startup's vision.

Company info

  • You don't have to stealthily moonlight your startup while juggling another job to pay the bills.
  • Your entrepreneurship is institutionally encouraged and fostered.
  • You work with a high-agency and low-ego team of potential co-founders / founding engineers.
  • You work in a system that is rapidly surfacing needs, roadmapping, and iterating on new AI tools/products.
  • You serve our clients and company. You grow and learn faster than you have before.
  • After some time, you found your own company, and Sierra does everything we can to set up a great team and support your journey.
  • You own a founding stake in your business.
  • Through your equity in Sierra, you also own a stake in our services business and a small amount of every company we incubate.
  • This gives you high upside AND diversification as the ecosystem grows.
  • 💖 OUR CULTURE
  • Growth mindset: We take risks, learn fast, and build with curiosity.
  • Supportive: No egos here - just people helping people build.
  • AI-native: We live and breathe tooling, experimentation, and speed.
  • Ownership: Everyone acts like a founder, because many of us are.

This listing is sourced directly from Sierra Studio's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.