3x founder
Mark Buckler
Founder & CEO of Soundry AI (YC W24)
Experience
Career
2025AI2 Incubator
Resident Expert (AI House) · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2025 – Present
2023Soundry AI
FounderFounder & CEO · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2023 – Present
2022Codex Collective
FounderFounder & CEO · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2022 – Present
2022Stability AI
Open Source Researcher · 2022 – 2023
2019Amazon
Applied Scientist · Greater Seattle Area · 2019 – 2023
2014Cornell University
PhD Candidate · Ithaca, New York Area · 2014 – 2019
2018Elucid Bioimaging Inc.
Research Contractor · Wenham, MA · 2018
2018DeepScale
Research Intern · Mountain View, CA · 2018
2012Firebrand Innovations
FounderFounder & CEO · Greater Boston Area · 2012 – 2015
2012University of Massachusetts Amherst
Graduate Researcher · Amherst, MA · 2012 – 2014
2013AMD
Graduate Co-Op Researcher · Greater Boston Area · 2013
- 2012
RF Diagnostics
Hardware Engineer · Niskayuna · 2012
2012RPI Smart Lighting ERC
Undergraduate Researcher · RPI · 2012
2011RPI CATS (Center for Automation Technology and Systems)
Undergraduate Researcher · 2011
2011Bose Corporation
Summer Intern · 2011
2010Ember Corporation (now Silicon Laboratories)
Summer and Winter Intern · 2010 – 2011
2007MITRE
Summer and Winter Intern · 2007 – 2010
Bio
I would describe myself as an endlessly curious, ambitious, and creative person. I’ve made contributions in many fields including robotics, biomedical imaging, computer vision, hardware acceleration, and computer architecture, and generative AI. My passion for AI was super-charged during my PhD at Cornell University where my thesis focused on hardware-accelerated deep neural networks.