👋🏿 👋🏽  👋🏻 Thinking of joining Tribe? Here’s what you need to know.

‍What is Tribe?

Tribe is a community of 600+ of the world’s top AI engineers and product leaders—the highest concentration of top AI talent outside of Big Tech. Members of Tribe come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are published PhDs, some are founders of successful companies, and many are accomplished AI technologists from institutions like OpenAI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, and more.

Every member goes through a vetting process including an application and interview. Once you’re accepted, you can opt in to a wide range of paid projects across industries and use cases, attend our events, connect with the community on Slack, and even come work out of our office in Manhattan.

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So is everyone in Tribe a consultant?

We have a small core team to keep the business side of Tribe running, but all of the technologists in our community are consultants who work on a per-project basis.

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What if I want to work on Tribe projects part time / full time / found my own company / travel the world?

Amazing! We’re so excited about all those things and you’ll find others in our community doing the same. Tribe is made up of:

• ‍Full-time consultants: We’ve got digital nomads volunteering their way across the globe and those who don’t want to be tied to one company. ‍
• Part-time consultants: This includes startup founders consulting on the side or technologists with full-time jobs looking to explore new industries.

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What kinds of projects and companies does Tribe engage with?

We work on projects for mid-market companies as well as large enterprises. We work across tech stacks and across industries, from private equity to healthcare and everything in between.

You can see some examples of past projects here, but our needs for consultants are ever-evolving depending on the nature of projects in our pipeline. So, whether you’re looking for a long-term engagement in a specific industry or a quick-hit project tackling a specific type problem, we may have a project that’s the right fit.

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How long do projects last?

There’s no standard project length at Tribe. We’ve had some projects as short as 4 weeks and others that go on for a year or more. But, over the course of a project, a team might change as the project’s needs evolve—so there are still lots of consulting opportunities for technologists interested in short-term or fractional engagements.

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How does Tribe make money?

Tribe works with a wide range of customers to help them drive business outcomes through AI. Companies come to us with a problem they think AI can help them solve. Our core team then works with those potential customers to understand and distill a project into its AI components. From there, Tribe’s staffing crew assembles a team of consultants from our community based on their experience, interests, and availability.

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Will I be working alone?

Typically, you’ll work in teams that Tribe has assembled, not as individuals. This generally includes a product manager and AI architects/engineers as well as Tribe core team members including a delivery lead and general manager. We believe in enabling the technologists in our community to focus on what they’re best at and want to make sure you’re supported as you do so.

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What if I’m interested in working on a specific industry or type of problem?

Great! Let us know and we’ll do our best to prioritize you for that type of project. 

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How much will I get paid?

The short answer is: you work with the Tribe team to set your rate when you get contracted for a project.

The long answer is a little more complicated. First, different industries or types of projects have different standard rates. For example, if you want to work for non-profits, you may need to be more flexible when it comes to setting your rate. Second, our community members come from a wide range of industries, geographic areas, and have varying levels of expertise so there truly is no average rate. But our core team is always there to answer any questions you have about this.

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Where is Tribe located?

We’re a fully remote, global company, though we do have a high concentration of members in New York, the Bay Area, and Europe. We also have a physical office in Manhattan which we encourage Tribe members to take advantage of as much as they’d like!

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Why should I join Tribe?

Here are the top reasons why people choose Tribe over a traditional job:

1. High-velocity learning across real business challenges.
2. Flexibility and autonomy without bureaucracy.
3. A builder’s culture: fewer decks, more shipped products.‍
4. An elite peer set of 600+ talented engineers, researchers, and AI product leaders.

In 2019, our co-founders Jackie and Noah started Tribe because they believed project-based work was the future of AI. And that thesis has proven true.

In addition to allowing organizations to successfully implement AI solutions, it also gives top technologists the freedom to get what they want out of their lives—whether that’s interesting AI problems, founding their own company, or spending more time with their family. The best AI engineers in the world have nearly unlimited options, and they choose Tribe.

We’ve had engineers who’ve turned down massive packages from top AI companies to stay with us because the work at Tribe is more fulfilling, the impact is real, and the learning curve is steeper.

At Tribe, engineers don’t just build—they grow. They work across industries, tech stacks, and use cases, building real-world AI products that ship. They get reps. They gain leverage. They stay sharp. Tribe isn’t a holding pattern between jobs. It’s a career accelerator.

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