Josh Clemm

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering for Uber Eats, scaling to $65B in bookings.
Built AI-powered search engine Yaddle.ai.
Managed over 400 engineers across multiple organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and B2C expert with strong leadership in AI and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Technical LeadershipOrganizational LeadershipConsumer ProductsMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringData Fusion

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Search RankingCloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentAIContext EngineeringSearch and DiscoveryBusiness StrategyMarketplace RecommendationsDelivery ExperienceGrowthData ProductsFrontend Tech StackIdentity Services

About

Currently VP of Engineering at Dropbox, focused on building Dropbox Dash - agents, chat, and search at work with all your work context. Prior to that, worked as a software engineer and executive, building products like Uber, Uber Eats, and LinkedIn. And tried my hand as a founder. At Uber, led engineering for the core Uber Eats food delivery business and built Uber's driver acquisition org leading to millions of drivers worldwide, managing over 400 engineers. At LinkedIn, helped build the profile, higher ed, and flagship orgs managing over 150 engineers, and was a key leader for two of their largest product rewrites. Between Uber and Dropbox, I founded Yaddle.ai, an AI-powered search engine exploring how large language models could transform information retrieval and knowledge discovery. I started my career in sensor data fusion for object tracking and autonomous navigation, and that foundation still shapes how I think about AI, data, and systems design today. Beyond my role at Dropbox, I advise several AI startups, helping founders craft thoughtful product and engineering strategies. I’m a software generalist at heart and still love to code. I’ve built products like Draft Punk (an AI Fantasy Football draft kit), Earthquake Alert (the #1 earthquake app on Android), and Yaddle.ai (an AI-powered search engine). I believe in a people-first approach to engineering leadership, creating environments where teams can grow, ship fast, and find joy in building the future together.

Experience

Dropbox

Vice President of Engineering

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, CA · Remote

Head of engineering for Dropbox's AI platform and Dropbox Dash, the AI assistant and context engine for work.
Responsible for research, evals, inference, training, multimodal, routing, agent harness, memory, tool use, context engineering. Also responsible for data infra, connectors, context graph, search and discovery, lexical and vector retrieval. And finally the Dash product experiences like chat, agents, stacks, and search across web, mobile, and desktop.
Completed 3 M&A deals: jamscape, promoted.ai, mobius labs

Large Language Models (LLM)Search RankingCloud ComputingOrganizational LeadershipConsumer ProductsMachine Learning+4

Uber

Senior Director of Engineering

Dec 2015 – Oct 2023 · 7 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Head of engineering for Uber Eats food delivery business.
Responsibilities included consumer and merchant experience, home feed, search and discovery, marketplace recommendations, menu and ordering platform, delivery experience, growth, pickup / venues, and new bets like conversational AI and gen AI.
Scaled Uber Eats to $65B in bookings, 30 countries, over 7 Billion orders as the largest food delivery platform across the globe.
Key highlights:
Led $2.7B Postmates M&A tech integration
Built out the Uber Eats AI / ML team
Initiated, scaled Pickup business ($XB ARR)
Initiated, scaled Uber Eats ordering within the Uber app ($XXB ARR)
Led industry-first integrations with global merchants like McDonald's and Starbucks
From 2015-2017, bootstrapped and scaled Uber's driver acquisition org that enabled over 6 Million drivers to earn on Uber's platform.

Consumer ProductsMachine LearningSearch and DiscoveryMarketplace RecommendationsDelivery ExperienceGrowth

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Led team of 100+ to rebuild LinkedIn's profile page, including our frontend tech stack and ML-powered data products like similar profiles and skills. Scaled identity services and profile DB to support 500M members.
Started new business unit to engage Students and University customers. Built out tech stack, scaled org to 40 engineers, and shipped many ML-powered data products like University pages and school rankings.
Core member of LinkedIn app rewrite leadership team (mobile, web, ML, API).
Part of LinkedIn's engineering executive team. Owned Staff+ hiring and our eng blog.

Machine LearningData ProductsFrontend Tech StackIdentity ServicesTechnical Leadership

Lockheed martin

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2005 – Feb 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Diego, California, United States

Built sensor and data fusion products for object tracking, surveillance, and autonomous driving / flying. Contributed to core data algorithms like Kalman filters, data assignment (JVC), object classification, representative learning, loss minimization, and bias correction.
Built a distributed fusion manager, a fault tolerant distributed system that combined many sensor systems to increase a vehicle's spatial awareness.
Supported programs such as Future Combat Systems, Missile Defense, Autonomous UAVs, and DARPA.
Selected for and graduated from Lockheed's Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP), a 3 year program for emerging leaders.

Sensor Data FusionObject TrackingAutonomous NavigationData AlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringData Fusion

Qualcomm

Software Engineer

Jun 2003 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

3-time Software engineering intern during the summers of 2003, 2004, and 2005 in support of various location-tracking technologies (WIFI, LTE, CDMA, barometric).