About
Joe Gershenson is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he works on AI agents. His focus includes building engineering and research teams working on machine learning.
Founder at GazeHawkYC S10
Intro paths
YC
Joe went through Y Combinator (Summer 2010) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Joe can intro founders to GazeHawk's investors below.
GazeHawk's investors · 3
Co-founders at GazeHawk
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Brian KrauszFounder
Experience
- OpenAIMember of Technical Staffcurrent2026 — present
- AssembledHead of Engineering2024 — 2026San Francisco, CA
- AmazonDirector, Applied Science2024
- AdeptHead of Research Engineering2023 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- StripeHead of ML Infrastructure2018 — 2022
- Segment.comEngineering Manager2016 — 2017
- Infer, Inc.Software Engineer2013 — 2016Mountain View, CA
- FacebookSoftware Engineer2012 — 2013Menlo Park, CA
- GazeHawk, Inc.Co-founder2009 — 2012Mountain View, CA
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityGraduate Student / Independent Researcher2009 — 2010Pittsburgh, PA
- GoogleAssociate Product Manager Intern2008Mountain View, CA
Skills & more
Engineering LeadershipExecutive Level ManagementMachine Learning9Computer Vision2Model Checking1Cellular Automata1Early Stage Companies2Algorithms2Computer Science1Distributed SystemsMemes2Modeling1
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Joe Gershenson?
- Joe Gershenson is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he works on AI agents. His focus includes building engineering and research teams working on machine learning.
- Where does Joe Gershenson work?
- Joe Gershenson is Founder of GazeHawk.
- What companies did Joe Gershenson found?
- Joe Gershenson founded GazeHawk.
- Where did Joe Gershenson go to school?
- Joe Gershenson studied at Y Combinator; Carnegie Mellon University (Masters, Computer Science); Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science).
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OpenAI mafia82
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Assembled mafia4
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Shared employers
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Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockPat GradyPartner at Sequoia CapitalGreg BrockmanCo-founder & President of OpenAIIlya SutskeverCo-founder of OpenAI; co-founder & CEO of Safe SuperintelligenceAravind SrinivasCo-founder & CEO of Perplexity AIDario AmodeiCo-founder & CEO of Anthropic
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