Founding Chief AI Scientist & Verification Architect

We operate as an AI-native laboratory where every operator works inside a shared constitutional substrate (Cortex) powered by multi-agent verification pipelines, oracle-separated adversarial models, and deterministic software gates.

Compensation $400k - $550k

Co-architect the verification layer of the internet — turning $22M/yr in profitable commerce cash flow into the benchmark truth engine for frontier AI agents.

Axioms.ai (the company behind Product.ai and Simply Codes ) is building the verification layer of the internet. While frontier labs train larger foundation models that still hallucinate under commercial pressure, we build the deterministic and adversarial verification infrastructure that proves what is actually true — starting with consumer commerce across 220+ categories and 61,000+ distilled domain axioms.

Unlike seed or Series A startups burning venture capital to search for a business model, we are 100% founder-owned, profitable, and bootstrapped since 2009
, generating ~$20M+ in annual revenue from our Simply Codes cash engine. You get the speed, intellectual freedom, and upside of a ~16-person founding bench in Santa Monica — backed by real cash flow, zero investor politics, and zero committee bloat.

We operate as an AI-native laboratory where every operator works inside a shared constitutional substrate (Cortex) powered by multi-agent verification pipelines, oracle-separated adversarial models, and deterministic software gates.

We are looking for a Founding Chief AI Scientist / Principal Verification Architect — a technical peer to the CEO & Founder (
Michael Quoc
) with deep industry gravitas across LLM evaluation, adversarial verification, neuro-symbolic / epistemic architectures, or agentic tool-use. You will not manage a bloated org chart or sit in status meetings. Instead, you will:

• Co-Architect the Axioms.ai Truth Graph & Verification Engine: Design the epistemic physics, multi-model adversarial consensus protocols, and zero-hallucination verification gates that power our category bibles, consumer shopping intelligence (product.ai/shop), and agent MCP/API rails.
• Lead Frontier Evaluation & Benchmark Publications: Partner with Karen Spinner (Head of Applied AI Research & Technical Narrative) and Isaac Sornborger (Principal Engineer) to publish open benchmarks, failure-mode taxonomies, and technical research that establish Axioms.ai as the definitive authority on commercial AI truth.
• Act as a Talent Magnet for Frontier Builders: Help attract and evaluate the top 0.1% of AI researchers and systems engineers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Deep Mind, and top academic labs who want to build real-world verification systems without big-lab bureaucracy.

• Shipped Frontier AI / Verification Systems: You have architected production LLM evaluation harnesses, synthetic data/distillation pipelines, retrieval/grounding verification engines, or multi-agent reasoning systems at a frontier AI lab, elite research group, or high-velocity technical company.
• First-Principles Technical Gravitas: You have authored influential papers, open-source repositories, or technical systems that other AI engineers cite and build on — and you can explain the hardest mechanism you know to a smart generalist in two minutes without jargon.
• Player-Coach Builder DNA: You love writing code, running experiments, and pressure-testing prompts/models yourself alongside principal engineers rather than delegating from a slide deck.
• Santa Monica Studio Presence: You are based in Los Angeles (or excited to relocate to West LA / Santa Monica) to anchor our in-person builder studio at 12100 Wilshire Blvd.