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The Opportunity
FutureSight is seeking a Co\-Founder \& CEO to lead Reclaim, an AI\-native denial management and revenue recovery venture. This is a co\-founder partnership with meaningful founder equity, not a salaried executive role.
We are entering a $16B\+ Total Addressable Market with a gaping $ 7\.5B–$10B whitespace, targeting the highly underserved mid\-market segment. Currently, 30–40% of denied medical claims go uncontested because practices lack the staff and capital to contest them. This systemic failure leaves between $50,000 and $300,000 in legally earned revenue permanently abandoned at each practice every year.
Reclaim AI resolves denied and aged claims end\-to\-end, embedding outcome\-based contingency pricing—meaning practices pay zero upfront, and we only take a cut of the dollars we successfully recover, for our target ideal customer profile (practices with $80K\+ in annual recoverable claims).
Market Context
We didn’t just read market reports; we spent weeks interviewing billing managers, practice owners, revenue cycle leaders at health systems, and even digital operations leaders at major insurance companies. The dysfunction we uncovered is staggering, creating a massive opportunity for a disruptor:
- The pain is so severe, practices are building their own tech: The frustration of payer opacity is so deep that medical billers are hiring part\-time software engineers to build in\-house robotic process automation (RPA) scrapers just to check claim statuses.
- Massive, emotional write\-offs: Staff carry immense guilt over these administrative losses. One small\-practice assistant admitted, "I feel like we probably had to write off probably close to a million dollars" simply because they couldn't keep up with the manual follow\-ups.
- The "Payer\-Side Inversion" Opportunity: We discovered that insurance companies are drowning in the exact same claims dysfunction they generate. One major payer we interviewed reported a backlog of 31,000 contested claims that consumed 80% of their staff's operational capacity, forcing emergency hires just to manage the disputes.
- The Competition is Distracted: Well\-funded Tier\-1 competitors are charging $15K\+ upfront licensing fees and fighting over enterprise health systems. The competitive window to capture the mid\-market with a contingency\-priced autonomous agent is wide open.
About FutureSight
FutureSight is a leading venture builder that co\-creates world\-class software companies with values\-driven entrepreneurs from inception to exit. We are a team of founders, operators and designers with experience successfully bringing software to market at scale.
You’ll co\-create with a proven studio team, led by John Carbrey (4x entrepreneur, $100M ARR), Krista LaRiviere (3x exited, E\&Y Top Women Entrepreneur), Alan Smith (Strategyzer co\-founder, $120M in products built), Prathna Ramesh (former MD of Maple Leaf Angels, $275M in follow\-on capital), and Johnny Tong (0\-to\-1 builder, acquired by SAP and Stripe) bring a rare combination of operator exits, institutional investing, and AI product depth.
The Partnership* Founder equity with meaningful ownership from inception
- Pre\-seed capital committed by FutureSight for early hires and MVP development, with potential for follow\-on funding
- Venture building resources, including embedded design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day one
- Investor and advisor network across vertical AI and early\-stage capital markets
- A true co\-creation model in which you operate as CEO with FutureSight's cross\-functional team as your partner
What You’ll Own
As Co\-Founder \& CEO, you will set the venture's direction and lead its execution.
- Strategy — Refine the ICP, pricing model, and product positioning
- Customer Development — Lead pilots with practice owners and revenue cycle leaders, convert them to paid engagements, and build the go\-to\-market motion
- Product — Partner with the FutureSight product and engineering team to ship V1 and iterate on user feedback
- Capital — Lead the seed raise, supported by FutureSight's network and traction
- Team — Recruit and lead the founding team, and establish the cultural foundation of the company
Co\-Founder Profile* Domain \& Workflow Depth: You have direct exposure to healthcare revenue cycle, medical billing, or denial management. You understand the nuanced differences in denial codes, know why administrative denials (like credentialing gaps) are uniquely painful, and intuitively understand the fragmented systems (e.g., Tebra, eClinicalWorks, Availity) that billers are forced to use
- Previous founding experience at a venture\-backed company
- Demonstrated success in B2B AI or B2B SaaS go\-to\-market, including sales and customer engagement
- Fundraising fluency, with the ability to develop investor narratives and close capital
- Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain top talent
- Clear\-eyed understanding of the risks and demands of co\-founding a venture\-backed company
How to Apply
Please submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, and a brief note on why this venture aligns with your goals as a founder. We will move quickly for the right candidate.
FutureSight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and experiences.
Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At FutureSight, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills in Demand for This Role
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $214,900 based on 6,420 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $194,400.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
FutureSight AI Hiring
FutureSight has 5 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in US. Compensation range: $850K - $850K.
Location Context
AI roles in Austin pay a median of $214,343 across 143 tracked positions.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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