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Founding Strategic Projects Lead

Founding Team

Full time
Gurugram, India Apply for this role → Or write to [email protected]

About Zstate

As AI models become increasingly capable, the industry needs better ways to measure reasoning, reliability, and real-world performance.

Zstate AI is building the evaluation and post-training infrastructure powering the next generation of AI systems. We create expert-driven benchmarks, reward signals, RL environments, and high-quality datasets that help frontier AI models become more capable, reliable, and trustworthy across diverse real-world domains.

Zstate AI is led by a founding team from IITs, IIMs, and DCE, bringing together deep technical and strategic expertise to build category-defining AI infrastructure. We are backed by Giraffe Studios, a venture studio focused on deep-tech startups founded by Himanshu Aggarwal (Co-founder & CEO, Aspiring Minds) and Mohit Tandon (Co-founder, Delhivery).

As one of our earliest hires,



you'll work directly with the founders to solve challenging engineering problems and help shape both the product and the company from day one.

What this role looks like

You'll sit at the center of a lab customer's project, translating a model gap into a concrete data or evaluation program and driving it to delivery. Working closely with the founders, domain experts, and operations, you'll own scoping, expert workflows, quality, and customer-facing communication, turning messy requirements into shipped datasets and evaluations an AI lab can act on.

A day in the life

Design and stand up the processes, playbooks, and workflows projects run on, then refine them as they scale.
Own projects end to end: scoping, expert workflows, execution, and customer-facing delivery.
Translate a lab customer's model gap into a concrete data or evaluation program and drive it to delivery.
Scope datasets and evaluations, stand up expert workflows, and hold quality and throughput at the same time.
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📌 Founding Strategic Projects Lead (Kolkata)
🏢 Zstate Ai
📍 Kolkata