Founding Member of Techincal Staff - Agents

Naïve develops an AI platform for deploying autonomous employees that create, run, and automate software-driven businesses. The company provides autonomous company infrastructure and runtime environments that let users…

Location: Mountain View, CA
Company size: 1–10
Posted: 2w ago
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Founding Member of Techincal Staff - Agents

Naive· Mountain View, CA, USView company profile

Job title: Founding Member of Techincal Staff - Agents
Job location: Mountain View, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/naive/jobs/qOwzkq2-founding-member-of-techincal-staff-agents
Job description: ## About Naive Naive is building autonomous companies: agent systems capable of operating real businesses end to end. We release autonomous company templates and benchmarks, alongside a studio—where users can deploy and operate these systems. Our infrastructure platform, Vetta, powers long-running, high-volume agent workloads. We’ve raised a $28.5M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 and leading operators. ## The Role Build Vetta into the best platform for deploying and operating large-scale agent workloads. You’ll work across core infrastructure and customer deployments. Accordingly, you also have the chance to earn significant equity at a fast growing Series A startup. ## What You’ll Do * Build agent orchestration, execution and tool-use infrastructure * Improve reliability, latency, observability and cost at scale * Design systems for long-running, stateful and multi-agent workloads * Work directly with customers to deploy production agent systems * Turn customer requirements into reusable platform capabilities * Own projects from architecture through production ## Must-Haves * Strong Python and distributed-systems engineering * Experience building production LLM agents * Understanding of orchestration, queues, retries, state and observability * Ability to debug complex systems across the full stack * Strong customer communication and high agency ## Nice-to-Haves * Experience with Pi, Hermes, and building your own agent harness * Built developer infrastructure, agent runtimes or workflow systems * Founder, founding engineer or forward-deployed engineering experience _P.S. If you’re serious about this role, send Sean a LinkedIn connection request with a note._

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