AI Developer

Role Type

Full-time Fellow

Location

Remote

Duration

: 1 Year, extendable

Reports To

: VP AI Innovation Team

About Our Firm

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Capria Ventures is a Global South specialist venture capital firm investing in applied Generative AI, connecting founders into a uniquely collaborative network. Capria activates strong relationships between hundreds of founders and leading local VC firms in the tech hubs of the Global South – from Sao Paulo to Lagos to Bangalore to Jakarta. Capria brings state-of-the-art venture capital innovation combined with global best practices of sustainable ESG management to select and manage its portfolio of startups serving the fastest-growing economies of the world. Capria has offices in Seattle, Bangalore, Nairobi, Buenos Aires, and Washington DC.

About The Role

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This is a unique opportunity to work with a leading venture capital firm to build innovative AI prototypes for our portfolio of next-generation tech companies across the Global South (India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa) and for the Capria internal team. An ideal candidate will be excited to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, global startup environment, working closely with the operations team and with founders across the globe.

Examples of projects include

• Building LLM-powered question-answering tool that leverages semantic similarity search for team to use as an internal chatbot to query firm’s internal file system (questions like “What is our PTO policy?”)
• Developing a smart filter system for an education technology company in India that enhances candidate selection by evaluating job applications and producing pertinent follow-up questions
• Working with a HRtech company in Latam to implement a natural language interface that listens to conversations and suggests to call center agents potential Q&A to access in real-time.
• Use off-the-shelf tools or develop solutions from scratch when needed to build and deploy AI agents that automate key workflows. One case could involve creating an agent for a company in Nigeria that, based on a conversation, autonomously triggers tasks like emailing team members responsible for next steps

Qualifications

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• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to tackle complex and new AI challenges
• Familiarity with software development practices, version control systems like Git, and agile methodologies is valuable
• Exposure to back-end server maintenance and deployment
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms, techniques, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Experience or curiosity to learn tools to create agents (ex. relevance.ai, make.com or n8n)
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in vibe coding and use of AI stack such as Claude code, Cursor, Codex, etc.
• Experience dealing with Large Language Model APIs like those of OpenAI, Claude and/or Google
• Being interested and finding value in a start-up environment or equivalent. We’re not a large firm – just like us, we’re looking for someone who is looking to get a lot done with limited resources and is looking to be challenged and interested in growing.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to explain technical concepts and updates to non-technical stakeholders
• Thrives on managing hard challenges in ambiguous settings
• Passion for learning and excitement for working with a variety of people and companies
• Undergraduate degree in STEM, or an undergraduate degree or on job training with relevant dev training experience from a well-regarded coding school
• Solid project management skills who is eager to advance their expertise further.
• Willing to work odd hours to accommodate work with team members on US pacific time as well as with startups in everyone from Jakarta to São Paulo
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Additional Information

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Capria Ventures has offices in Seattle, Bangalore, Nairobi, Jakarta and Washington DC. Capria is an equal opportunity-employer

Role TypeFellow / Intern LocationRemote Duration1 Year (extendable)