Startups love to say they only hire “the best.” We care less about the gloss on the PDF and more about whether you default to action when the spec is fuzzy and the graph is on fire.
Do whatever it takes — without the theater
“Do whatever it takes” is not a mandate to burn out for vanity metrics. It means: if the customer is blocked, you unblock them. If the docs are wrong, you fix them. If nobody owns the thing, you own it until it has a real owner. Titles are provisional; impact is not.
We believe any person can be the right person for any job at this stage — not because we’re careless about craft, but because we’re small. The engineer who can run a crisp beta call beats the polished operator who waits for permission. The marketer who can read a Cypher error beats the one who needs a handoff for every technical detail. We rotate responsibility on purpose so the org stays honest about what actually matters.
What we’re not optimizing for
We are not optimizing for perfect cover letters. Send your LinkedIn, your resume, and (for technical or founding roles) your GitHub — then tell us in one sentence what you’ve shipped that you’re proudest of. That single line tells us more than three paragraphs of adjectives.
We want go-getters: people who’ve started things without a committee, finished them without needing a hero narrative, and can point to artifacts — code, revenue, users, or a graph that stayed up under load.
Benefits that match the work
We’re asking people to pour energy into hard problems. The trade has to be fair.
- Unlimited PTO — with the expectation that you use judgment: ship the release, then actually take the trip.
- Free medical and dental for staff — so you’re not negotiating with a deductible when you should be thinking about schema.
- Unlimited paid education for approved programs — conferences, courses, certifications that make you sharper at the job you have or the job you’re growing into.
- Remote-first with a San Francisco hub — deep work at home, high-bandwidth time together when it counts.
- Paid company retreats quarterly — alignment, demos, and the kind of trust you don’t get from Slack threads alone.
- $2,500 office stipend when you onboard — spend it on the chair, the mic, the GPU, or whatever makes you effective.
The honest part
We’re building ontology-backed infrastructure for AI agents. That attracts people who like long hours when the problem demands it — and who know how to recover when the spike is over. If you want a predictable 9-to-5 with no edge cases, we’re probably not your place. If you want to build something that will be cited in architecture discussions five years from now, we might be.
Join us
See open and upcoming roles on our careers page — including founding staff and planned leadership tracks. If you’re a builder, we’d rather read your commits than your cover letter.