Strategic AI Projects Lead

About After Query

After Query is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.

Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, Box Group, and Y Combinator and angels from Google Deep Mind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.

Massive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.

Founding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.

Equity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.

Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley — work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.

You'll work directly with the world's leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions, managing expert teams across domains like finance, software engineering, and law to produce high-quality outputs 'll shape dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are evaluated and improved, owning critical projects end-to-end from scoping through delivery in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment. Along the way, you'll gain top-tier operational experience, working across multiple parts of the business — building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing wherever it's needed most.

• Project and client management:
  Work with the world’s leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions that push the limits of model capability, while directly driving revenue.

• Manage expert teams across domains:
  Lead and coordinate highly specialized contributors across fields like healthcare, medicine, and biopharma.

• Shape how AI systems are trained:
  Design dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are evaluated and improved. Your taste and judgement will shape what foundation models become.

• Drive high-impact execution end-to-end:
  Own critical projects from idea to delivery. From scoping, executing, iterating, and shipping in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, you will touch it all.

• Gain top tier operational experience:
  Support the team across a range of operational initiatives that will directly contribute to the future of After Query. You will work across multiple parts of the business in the same week, ranging from building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing where needed most.

• 3+ years of experience in healthcare, medical research, health technology, a top-tier biopharma company, or another highly selective healthcare / medicine environment (having an MD is a plus)

• Background in medicine, clinical practice, biomedical research, healthcare operations, or another relevant discipline

• Strong understanding of healthcare data, systems, clinical workflows, medical research, or the healthcare industry

• High agency, drive, and a strong work ethic; thrive in ambiguity and execute with minimal direction

• Passion for healthcare, AI, and entrepreneurship, with…