
Oumi is a community of researchers, developers, and institutions united in their mission to make frontier AI more open, collaborative, and accessible. Oumi offers an unconditionally open-source AI…

Oumi is a community of researchers, developers, and institutions united in their mission to make frontier AI more open, collaborative, and accessible. Oumi offers an unconditionally open-source AI…
What they do: Open-source, enterprise-grade AI platform to build, evaluate, and deploy custom foundation models
Founders / leadership: Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis (CEO & co‑founder); Oussama Elachqar (co‑founder & engineering lead)
Team size: ~39 employees
Notable backers: Investors reported include Venrock, Obvious Ventures, Plug and Play, Ascend, Tim Draper, 5Y Capital
Recent funding: $10.0M Seed round (Jan 2025) reported
Enterprise AI infrastructure and model development for custom foundation models
Software Development
$10.0M
Dealroom lists a $10.0M Seed round dated January 2025 with investors including Venrock, Obvious Ventures, Plug and Play, and Ascend.
Crunchbase records a pre‑seed round on Aug 2, 2024 led by 5Y Capital.
Crunchbase records a pre‑seed round on Jan 30, 2025 listing Tim Draper among leads/participants.
“Institutional and well-known angel backing (reported investors include Venrock, Obvious Ventures, Plug and Play, Ascend, Mozilla Ventures, Tim Draper, 5Y Capital and named angel backers such as Clem Delangue and Ruslan Salakhutdinov)”
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Oumi
About Oumi Why we exist: Oumi is on a mission to make frontier AI truly open for all. We believe that AI will have a transformative impact on humanity. As such, AI should be developed openly and collectively. It should be made universally accessible.
What we do: Oumi provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform to build custom AI models in hours, not months –automating the loop of evaluation, data synthesis, training, and repeat. Oumi also develops an open research stack and models in collaboration with academic collaborators and the open community.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Applied AI Manager to own the strategy and execution for AI science at Oumi. This is a senior AI science leadership role in the company: you'll set the applied science agenda, build and lead the team, and be accountable for the science quality of every feature that ships on our platform.
Your scope spans the full model development lifecycle—data strategy, pre-training and post-training methodology, evaluation science, and production deployment—as well as the agentic systems that automate and improve each stage. You'll work closely with the CEO and product leadership to translate Oumi's company strategy into a concrete AI science roadmap, then execute against it with a growing team of ML engineers and applied researchers.
This role blends research and product shipping. You'll stay very close to the academic research, but also industry trends. You will leverage AI science, drive experimentation, and translate breakthroughs into production systems that Oumi and our customers use every day.
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