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You'll set them up, run them day to day, and keep improving them as we grow.\nThe role has unusual reach. You will shape nearly everyone's experience here, from a new hire's first day to the environment every employee works in, and you will be trusted with the judgment calls that come with that.\nWe are a team that is genuinely interested in working smarter. You will have real room to deploy AI to take the repetitive or tedious parts of operations off your plate, so your time goes to meaningful work.\nWho we are\nAt River AI, our mission is to create personal AI owned and shaped by each individual. To achieve this, we are building the full stack required for people and organizations to create AI models of their own-from training infrastructure and open-weight model post-training to personal hardware and next-generation interfaces.\nWe are scientists, engineers, and builders from the industry’s leading technology companies and AI labs. 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