Strategic Projects Associate - Coding
About the role
What we're looking for
We are seeking a highly driven SPA with 0-2 years of experience, ideally with founding engineer experience in college or reputable SWE internships. You should be comfortable in a fast-paced, demanding environment, ready to work long hours, and have a track record of taking ownership and driving projects to completion. Bonus points if you have a technical degree, founding experience, or have held leadership positions in prominent university clubs.
What you'll do
- Partner with frontier AI labs to coordinate dataset generation projects, manage timelines, and ensure delivery excellence
- Build and maintain operational tools using AI (ChatGPT, Claude Code) and scripting to automate workflows, track metrics, and improve efficiency
- Manage teams of technical experts across domains like software engineering, data science, and machine learning
- Create technical documentation, project briefs, and data samples for customer presentations
- Support product development by gathering technical requirements, coordinating testing, and tracking feature releases
- Analyze operational metrics and build lightweight dashboards to monitor project health and team performance
- Drive process improvements and build systems to scale operations as the company grows
- Interface with engineering and research teams on technical and operational coordination
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents through novel datasets and experimentation. We work on building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows. We work the leading AI labs and are becoming the go-to partner for data infrastructure for YC companies. We have a sharp hockey stick growth rate and are extremely talent-dense, with most of our founding team coming from top IB and quant firms.
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Job details
Salary
$110,000 - $130,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$34M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.