Co-Founder — Product & AI Research (AI for Science)

Zeteon builds an AI research agent that supports scientific workflows from literature review and hypothesis generation through experiment execution, analysis, and reproducible outputs. The U.S. Co-Founder will lead product and research for the agent, improve its performance on real scientific problems, and establish Zeteon’s U.S. presence through partnerships, user recruitment, hiring, and strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product direction of our research agent alongside the founding team
• Design, build, and evaluate agent workflows for high-value scientific use cases
• Run computational experiments on real research problems and turn what you learn into product improvements
• Define how we measure quality: benchmarks and evaluations for scientific reasoning, experiment design, and reproducibility
• Work hands-on with our engineering and research team to ship
• Turn researcher feedback into a clear product and research roadmap
• Lead Zeteon's U.S. presence and growth
• Recruit professors, postdocs, and research labs as design partners and early users
• Build partnerships with universities, research institutions, and AI for Science communities
• Represent Zeteon at research conferences and AI events
• Hire our U.S. team and help shape company strategy