More About Jacob
Jacob Phillips is an Engineering Fellow on a16z’s American Dynamism team, focusing on AI and robotics.
Previously, Jacob was a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Scale AI, where he trained Scale’s Automotive Foundation Model and built LLM agents. Before that, he co-founded a startup, Themis AI, which trained unbiased and uncertainty-aware models for enterprises.
Jacob received a BS and MEng from MIT, where he focused on ML research.