Edge Inference Developer Tooling Founder

Forum Ventures

1d • Remote

About The Position

Edge AI is a production requirement across automotive, robotics, and industrial verticals, but the infrastructure underneath it doesn't exist. Every team deploying models on edge devices rebuilds memory management, platform abstraction, and monitoring logic from scratch. The hardware is fragmenting across dozens of chipsets and runtimes. No single vendor's tools cover the stack. The developer experience is years behind what cloud teams take for granted. The opportunity: Build the software and tooling layer that makes edge hardware usable — frameworks that abstract across platforms, memory managers that optimize dynamically, observability stacks that surface what's happening inside a deployed model running on a sensor or a vehicle. Start with the highest-cost-of-failure verticals (autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics), then expand into the full edge AI developer stack. We're looking for Founders to leverage their domain expertise, and care deeply about the developer experience. You've shipped inference at the edge and hit the wall on memory, latency, or platform lock-in. You've debugged a model that ran fine in the cloud and failed on the device. You know the gap isn't the model. It's the infrastructure underneath it. We are convinced AI can deliver the outcomes better than humans to build full-stack, AI Native services in industries where outcomes depend on expertise, regulation, and trust. While we're actively building out these ideas, Forum Ventures is always open to hearing from founders with bold, original ideas. If you're working on an early-stage B2B SaaS company, even at the idea stage, pitch us still.

Requirements

• Shipped inference at the edge and hit the wall on memory, latency, or platform lock-in.
• Debugged a model that ran fine in the cloud and failed on the device.
• Know that the gap isn't the model, but the infrastructure underneath it.
• Convinced AI can deliver outcomes better than humans to build full-stack, AI Native services in industries where outcomes depend on expertise, regulation, and trust.
• Early-stage operator experience, and expertise in the problem space you're building in.
• The ability to attract, hire and lead world-class teams.
• A demonstrated passion for technology’s ability to change the world.
• A desire to be a venture-backed founder.
• Canada or US-based, and the ability to collaborate in North American time zones.

Responsibilities

• Build the software and tooling layer that makes edge hardware usable, including frameworks that abstract across platforms, memory managers that optimize dynamically, and observability stacks that surface what's happening inside a deployed model running on a sensor or a vehicle.
• Start with the highest-cost-of-failure verticals (autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics), then expand into the full edge AI developer stack.
• Leverage domain expertise and care deeply about the developer experience.
• Attract, hire and lead world-class teams.
• Validate, unlock your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and ignite your sales pipeline.
• Execute a winning Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy to get to $50-100K ARR.
• Develop the right Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to ensure early traction.

Benefits

• A $250K USD investment.
• An end-to-end fundraising playbook and network to raise your seed and Series A.
• A validation partner with proven playbooks, networks, and the systems to validate, unlock your ICP, ignite your sales pipeline, and beyond.
• The support of our experienced operating team - from business design, product development, growth, recruitment, legal and more.
• Executing a winning GTM strategy to get to $50-100K ARR, and the right MVP to ensure early traction.
• A community full of mentors, peers, and leaders.
• $100K worth of business perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed