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Founding Engineer @ Vela | Solving Scheduling
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-05-18
Listing for:
Vela (YC W26)
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-18
Job specializations:
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Who are you?
- Ultra intellectually curious (you are active in competitions/championships such as ICPC, IOI, Putnam, etc.; or do research for fun; or win hackathons)
- Have crazy amounts of agency (passion projects for life; fix things that annoy you)
- Love working with friends (extremely strong opinions, weakly held; have a great sense of humor)
- Build agents and are an AI power user (but can think for yourself)
- Fast learner
- Curious about Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning
- Agent evaluator
- Test-driven developer
- Solve problems that don't have a known solution yet.
- Build agents that make thousands of context-dependent decisions daily.
- Ship things that real paying customers use the next day.
- Talk to customers, understand their needs, and build.
- Own entire systems end-to-end: from the research that informs an approach, to the architecture, to the code, to watching it work in production.
- Work at the frontier of what agents can actually do reliably, not what demos look like on Twitter.
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