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Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign, the first defense-purpose foundation AI for unmanned systems, to be the standard battlefield AI on every Western unmanned system. Today, Sovereign allows drones as varied as unmanned vessels on water to backpack attack quadcopters to see, decide, and act even when jammed. We believe the responsibility of reliably and ethically building lethally autonomous AI is immense to our service members, the American people, and civilians everywhere.\nModern Intelligence has worked with partners across the Department of War including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and countless unmanned systems hardware companies.\nWe have raised more than $22M in venture capital from Exponential, Oxford Funds, Bedrock, Vine Ventures, Contrary, Air Street, Caffeinated, Champion Hill, Swell, Myelin, and others.\nDetails\nWe are looking for an executive assistant for our CTO. We are a small company that is growing fast and our CTO often has more information coming at him than he has time to manage. We are looking for someone to whom he can delegate context: You will be asked to organize calendars and manage time, ensuring he has sufficient focus time for engineering and design activities as well as other traditional EA activities.\nWe are looking for an EA who is excited to embrace AI to help with EA tasks: we want our EA to be able to focus on tasks that require a person, or physical presence. You may be asked to attend meetings the CTO cannot, to capture what happened and brief him afterward, not to represent him or make decisions in his place. You will often be asked to prep the CTO and possibly other execs before meetings. You will be asked to check in on the engineering team while the CTO is busy or away.\nWe are looking for someone who will form a strong relationship with everyone at the company (at least in the near future), especially with members of the engineering organization and the other executives. 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