Charles Wang

Charles Wang

Senior Strategic Projects Lead, Gen AI · Scale AI

Engineer and investor focused on AI systems and data infrastructure. At Scale AI I work on frontier post-training data for agent environments and coding agents, partnering with top research labs on model development. Previously principal investor at Good AI Capital, backing early-stage data and AI companies. Before that, four years at Palantir building and leading deployed engineering teams on data products and predictive ML systems. B.S.E. Computer Science (summa cum laude), University of Michigan. M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth.


Scale AI Apr 2025 – Present
Senior Strategic Projects Lead, Gen AI

Leading strategic projects in the New Product and Frontier Data group for Agent Environments and Coding Agents. Delivering frontier post-training data to top research labs, driving model development and generating millions in revenue.

Good AI Capital Jan 2024 – Apr 2025
Principal Investor

Focused on data & AI infrastructure and enterprise investments. Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management, and industry research. Sourced a Seed deal in Coblocks and supported a Series A deal in Persist AI.

VC Firms 2022 – 2023
Investor (MBA)
Eastlink Capital 2023

Supported three investments in Modal Labs (Series A), Databricks (Series I), and PuppyGraph (Pre-Seed).

Clear Ventures 2022

Sourced and evaluated OSS startups; generated a $5.5M Seed-stage deal in Wherobots (Wing VC co-invest).

Palantir Mar 2017 – Aug 2021
Forward Deployed Software Engineer → Tech Lead

Led a deployed team of six at a railway client building locomotive monitoring software. Built time series regression models for predictive maintenance, capturing $20M+ in annual cost savings. Drove 5× user growth on a high-visibility cybersecurity product.

Google 2015 – 2016
Software Engineer Intern · Venice, CA Summer 2016

Identified mobile ad viewability issues within YouTube and third-party Google ads. Released an improved occlusion detection algorithm to increase mobile ad viewability reporting accuracy by 2%.

Technical Solutions Consultant Intern · San Francisco, CA Summer 2015

Built infrastructure to replicate customers' mobile ad conversion tracking ecosystem on AdWords and AdMob networks.


Seed

AI-augmented data engineering platform.

Series A

AI-driven drug formulation and development.

Series A

Cloud infrastructure for running AI/ML workloads at scale.

Series I

Unified data and AI platform.

Seed

Cloud-native geospatial data and analytics platform.

Pre-Seed

Zero-ETL graph analytics engine over existing data stores.


AI Infrastructure Evolution: Bringing Fortune 500-Level Data Tools to SMBs How enterprise AI infrastructure is evolving and the opportunity for startups to democratize advanced data tools previously available only to large organizations.
Language Models: Going from Large to Small An enterprise push for performance, security, deployment, and customizability.
On vector databases A brief overview of the space, interesting startups, and future adoption.
View all on Substack

2015 · UROP Research

Genome indexing tool to detect DNA mutation sequences across thousands of cancer patient records. Poster.

Twerating
2016 · ML

Sentiment analysis system pooling Twitter data to generate unbiased movie ratings. Paper · Poster.

2016 · Hardware

8×8×8 LED cube with an FPGA programmed in assembly to visualize two-variable functions.

2016 · Hardware

Automated vinyl record cleaning machine built as a senior project (team of two).

2015 · Hardware

Built a portable MP3 player for Stanford's summer engineering design course (individual).