--- title: 'Executive Assistant & Operations at Mirendil' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-operations-mirendil-san-francisco-c06e01p1zc49' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Executive Assistant & Operations at Mirendil - **Company:** Mirendil - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mirendil/9331140c-f137-4fdb-8524-f03ec60fea80 ## Job description Mirendil Mirendil is a tech-first company focused on solving core bottlenecks that unlock step-change acceleration across science and technology. Our first goal is to democratize frontier AI R&D across scientific disciplines. We are building a frontier AI research company and training our own models end-to-end. ## The Role You are two things at once: the operating system for the CEO, and the person who runs the physical home of the company. You'll keep the CEO's days tight and their commitments on track, and you'll run the office so completely that no one else ever has to think about it. Your scope will include facilities, vendors, purchasing and bill pay, team logistics, occasional events and travel, and running the CEO calendar, meeting logistics and travel support. You are the force that makes things feel seamless even when they aren’t. ## What You'll Own - CEO leverage. Own the CEO’s calendars, travel, expenses, and inbox triage. Prep them for what's next, capture decisions, and turn "we should" into "it's handled." You keep their days focused on the highest-value work and make sure nothing slips through. - The office runs like a product. Facilities, vendors, supplies, catering and snacks,seating, security, mail and shipping, the space itself. When something breaks, you fix it before anyone notices. - Fuel the team. Long, in-person days mean meals and daily rhythm are load-bearing. Own catering, snacks, coffee, and the small rituals that keep a high-intensity team fed and energized from morning to night. - Moments that matter. Team dinners, offsites, onboardings and the visitor experience for candidates, partners, and investors. Everyone who walks through the door should feel cared for. - Whatever's least owned. Jump on the most important unowned thing, whatever it is that week: an event thrown together on short notice, a move or buildout, an operational fire. - Ad-hoc support. It might be billing, it might be people ops, there’s plenty to do and space to grow. ## Who You Are - You’ve been someone’s trusted right hand. An executive, founder, or small team has relied on you to handle important work independently. Exceptional EAs and candidates with broader operational backgrounds are welcome. - You exercise judgment, not just follow instructions. You can work with incomplete information, distinguish what matters from what doesn’t, and know when to act and when to escalate. - Your follow-through is exceptional. You keep multiple moving pieces organized, hold vendors accountable, and are simply on top of it all. - You combine high standards with low ego. You’re comfortable negotiating with a vendor and picking up a team lunch. You genuinely enjoy making other people more effective and comfortable. Note, this role will be in person 6 days a week ## About Mirendil ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mirendil is building an AI system that automates AI research and development, with the goal of creating a self-improving loop that accelerates scientific discovery. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $200M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Early 2026 - **Founders**: Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / AI Research & Development - **Target customers**: B2B – initially AI researchers and engineers, but eventually scientists and domain experts (e.g., biology labs, drug discovery teams) who need frontier AI capabilities without building a full AI lab. - **Mission**: “Democratizing frontier AI R&D to accelerate science and technology.” The company believes self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to solving humanity’s pressing problems. ## Products & Services - **Mirendil Platform**: A proprietary AI R&D system that trains frontier models specialized in AI research tasks (e.g., experimental design, hyperparameter search, model evaluation, code writing, debugging). The platform is designed to autonomously loop over research and engineering problems, controlling its own GPUs and improving over time with minimal human input. **Status**: Not yet shipped; under development. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $1 billion (as of June 2026 seed round) - **Key Metric (Funding)**: $200 million raised in seed round – one of the largest AI seed rounds ever. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (co-lead), Kleiner Perkins (co-lead), NVIDIA (participant). - **Growth Signals**: - Raised $200M at $1B valuation just months after founding. - Founding team of 20+ researchers and engineers recruited from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. - Founders Behnam Neyshabur (co-inventor of SAM optimizer, ex-Google, ex-Anthropic) and Harsh Mehta (ex-Google, ex-Anthropic, initiated automated AI R&D efforts) have deep frontier AI experience. - Targeted at compressing research cycles from months to days. ## Competitive Advantages - **Self-Accelerating Loop**: The product is not just a model but a system that improves itself – “the loop is the product.” This creates a compounding advantage if it works. - **Singular Focus**: The entire company is rebuilt from scratch around AI doing AI research, unlike traditional labs that use AI as a tool. - **Top-tier Talent Density**: With only ~20 people, the team includes some of the most accomplished young researchers from the leading AI labs. - **Strategic Investors**: Backing from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA provides credibility, capital, and potential infrastructure access. ## Strategic Focus - **Immediate goal**: Build the system that can autonomously perform AI R&D, making frontier research accessible to non-AI experts. - **Long-term vision**: Democratize frontier AI R&D so that any lab (drug discovery, chemistry, biology, robotics) can leverage it without becoming a frontier AI lab themselves. - **Current priorities**: Train models exceptional at AI research; build infrastructure for automated experimentation, evaluation, and iteration; keep the team small and high-compound. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: “Small team, singular focus. We hire to compound, not to grow.” The team of ~20 operates with high autonomy and ownership. - **Cutting-edge work**: Opportunity to work on one of the most ambitious AI projects – automating the very process of AI research. - **Team composition**: Colleagues from Anthropic, xAI, DeepMind, OpenAI; founders known for foundational contributions (SAM optimizer, Blueshift/Mirerva). - **Work environment**: Based in San Francisco; likely in-office given the intensity of the work (remote/hybrid policy not publicly detailed). - **Notable perks**: Direct exposure to frontier model training and infrastructure; chance to shape a company from its earliest stage. ## Sources 1. [mirendil.com](https://mirendil.com/) 2. [mirendil.com/careers.html](https://mirendil.com/careers.html) 3. [kleinerperkins.com](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/mirendil-building-the-system-that-builds-systems/) 4. [a16z.news](https://www.a16z.news/p/investing-in-mirendil) 5. 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