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title: 'Vertical AI Lead at Haize Labs'
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# Vertical AI Lead at Haize Labs

- **Company:** Haize Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-04-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/haizelabs/jobs/5173890008

## Job description

## About Haize Labs

Today’s AI has a jagged intelligence surface. It is superhuman on well-defined benchmarks like the International Math Olympiad, but falls short in many real world domains.

Haize Labs brings superintelligence to the long tail of these domains through our agent foundry, which enables agent performance at parity with or better than domain experts.

Our agents are being deployed across many, many verticals. We are hiring a Vertical AI Lead to “own the P&L” of our agent deployments in each vertical. This role spans engineering (rapidly building AI agents), product (embedding with customers to understand their pain), GTM (unlocking distribution and winning sales), and customer management (scoping, planning, relationship-building).

## About the role

This role is all the fun parts of being a Founder without nearly as much of the pain. You will go 0-1 and scale products repeatedly. Team members who succeed in this role will likely go on to start their own companies. We would consider that a successful hire.

You bring the entrepreneurial spirit. Haize brings the agent foundry, research talent, distribution, experience, compensation, and capital to enable you to sprint faster and swing bigger than you could starting from scratch.

We’re looking for people who are ridiculously high agency and ridiculously high urgency: individuals who start without waiting for instructions. Individuals who think on the fly and unblock themselves. Individuals who evolve with the problem, own the outcome, and deliver.

In this role, you will:

- Build agents for almost any business you can imagine
- Become a renaissance engineer, i.e. an expert across many domains
- Unlock “apex distributors” in each vertical
- Learn the lingua franca of each vertical
- Originate and execute unconventional GTM strategies
- Spend a LOT of time with the customer
- Rapidly (<24 hours) prototype solutions
- Be the PM: own entire solution delivery from scoping to handoff
- Lead demos and workshops for customers
- Maintain technical customer-facing documentation
- Take learnings back to refine the Haize Reliability Harness
- Collaborate closely with Research, Core Engineering, and GTM team

You are a great fit if you:

- Are relentless, move insanely fast, and are always questioning the status quo
- Think clearly and communicate cogently under pressure and on the fly
- Are charismatic in front of customers
- Know the startup stack, and realize tech debt is necessary
- Want to deliver real economic value with AI

Ideal candidates likely:

- Have been an FDE
- Previously started their own company
- Shipped popular tools (e.g. OS projects)

Logistics

- Education requirement: doesn’t matter. If you are exceptional, you are exceptional.
- Location policy: NYC/SF.
- US visa sponsorship: If you are exceptional, we will sponsor.

## Compensation

$150,000 – $250,000 annual salary And generous equity + benefits

## About Haize Labs

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Haize Labs builds a reliability platform for AI agents, enabling safe, production‑ready autonomous systems through adversarial testing, guardrails, and continuous improvement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed round of $12.5M led by General Catalyst; some sources label it Series A – conflicting reports) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haize-labs) [join.haizelabs.com](https://join.haizelabs.com/)
- **Headquarters**: 222 Broadway, New York, New York 10007, United States [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haize-labs)
- **Founded**: 2023 [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haize-labs)
- **Founders**: Leonard Tang (Co‑Founder, CEO) and Steve Li (Co‑Founder) [haizelabs.com/about](https://www.haizelabs.com/about)

## Core Business

- **Primary industries**: AI reliability / safety, AI agent development, enterprise AI infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and Government – including frontier AI labs, Fortune 500 banks, insurers, gaming companies, and national governments.
- **Mission**: “Solve the hardest problem in AI: making it reliable in the real world.”

## Products & Services

- **Reliability Harness** – A platform for deploying AI agents with 99.9% reliability. Includes:
  - **Red‑Teaming**: Automated adversarial and fuzz testing to discover vulnerabilities.
  - **Simulation Testing**: Exhaustive scenario validation before deployment.
  - **Guardrails**: Runtime constraints to keep outputs within policy boundaries.
  - **Supervisors**: AI monitors trained to oversee other agents for consistent performance.
  - **Annotation Tooling**: Labeling and evaluation tools to capture human nuance.
  - **Ongoing Improvement**: Continuous enhancement based on production interactions.
- **Judge**: Model‑based evaluators trained via scaled inference‑time compute.
- **Monitor**: Real‑time tracing, monitoring, and observability.
- **Robustify**: Continual improvement against bugs uncovered by Haize testing.
- **Professional Services** (Engagement Design): Agent development, knowledge transfer, exploratory phase, and validation against human experts.

## Market Standing

- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $12.5M (Seed round; some sources list as Series A – conflicting reports).
- **Notable Investors**: Lead – General Catalyst. Also AI Grant Batch 4, and angel investors including the founder of Okta, former CISO of Google, CEO of Weights & Biases, CEO of Cognition Labs, CEO of Pika Labs, CEO of Replit, CTO of CodeSignal, CSO of HuggingFace, CEO of Etched, and others.
- **Advisors**: CISO of Databricks / Robinhood / Capital One, NYU Alignment Research Group professor, inventor of t‑SNE / Head of Llama Team at Meta AI, former Head of Responsible AI at Twitter/Accenture.
- **Growth Signals**: Customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, AI21 Labs, a Fortune 500 bank, top‑3 North American insurer, Canadian airline, $30B gaming company, Government of Singapore, and European digital bank. Media coverage in Washington Post, Business Insider, Forbes, PitchBook, VentureBeat. Founder named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (2025).

## Competitive Advantages

- **Deep focus on reliability** as the core AI problem, not side‑channels or wrapper products.
- **Proprietary Reliability Harness** combining red‑teaming, simulation, guardrails, and supervisor models.
- **Top‑tier team**: members from Stanford (PhD dropout), Citadel, Hudson River Trading, Harvard PhD, Datadog LLM observability founding engineer, and nonprofit founders.
- **Early partnerships** with frontier labs and large enterprises, giving unique exposure to real‑world deployment challenges.

## Strategic Focus

- Rapidly move AI agents from “POC purgatory” to production with guaranteed reliability.
- Become the “alignment layer” powering every AI system, for every use case, in every industry.
- Continue expanding customer base across finance, insurance, gaming, government, and beyond.

## Why Work Here

- **Culture**: “High‑agency, low‑ego” team; solve the hardest technical problem in AI; intense learning environment with “unmatched excellence.”
- **Work style**: Hybrid presence in New York (222 Broadway) and San Francisco. Open roles include engineering (Product Slinger, Software Engineer Intern, Staff+ Backend & Infra, Vertical AI Lead) and research (Applied Researcher, Research Intern).
- **Notable perks**: Work directly with top researchers and engineers; impact on AI safety at scale; early‑stage equity and fast‑paced decision making.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on deep technical work, push to production quickly, collaboration with frontier labs.

## Sources

1. [haizelabs.com](https://haizelabs.com/)
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/haizelabs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/haizelabs)
3. [haizelabs.com/about](https://www.haizelabs.com/about)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/haize-labs](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haize-labs)
5. [join.haizelabs.com](https://join.haizelabs.com/)

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