Objection is building the truth infrastructure for the next century: fast, adversarial, AI-native adjudication at civilisational scale. Backed by Peter Thiel and launched in April 2026 to coverage across the BBC, Der Spiegel, TechCrunch, Fortune, and the Boston Globe — we are pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, journalism, and legal technology.
We are creating a platform for structured dispute resolution — adversarial fact-checking with ELO-rated participants, AI-assisted evidentiary analysis, and transparent methodology. We operate with complete editorial and institutional independence.
We run on a deliberate cadence: three weeks per month fully distributed, asynchronous, deep work; one week per month mandatory in-person for alignment, architectural debates, and strategic decisions. When remote, we operate on GMT time.
Each month, the company meets in the city we believe is the best at that time of year. Our current rotation includes Nassau (winter), New York City (spring and autumn), and London/Europe (summer). We follow seasonality and intensity. Strategy in Nassau. Commercial tempo in NYC. Institutional engagement cycles in Europe.
The OpportunityWe are seeking engineers to build the core systems that power Objection’s adversarial adjudication platform — from the real-time debate interface and ELO rating engine to the AI-native infrastructure that makes structured dispute resolution possible at scale.
This is a full-stack role. You will work across the front end and back end, owning features from architecture through to deployment. We are a small team building a category-defining product. There is no division between “front-end” and “back-end” engineers here — we expect range and ai-first coding skills.
This role is suited for professionals accustomed to:
Building and shipping product in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments
Making sound architectural decisions without excessive guidance
Integrating AI tooling and large language models into production systems
Working asynchronously with clear written communication
As an Engineer, you will:
Design, build, and ship product features end-to-end across the full stack
Architect systems for real-time adversarial workflows, structured argumentation, and AI-assisted adjudication
Build and maintain APIs, data pipelines, and the infrastructure layer that supports platform scale
Integrate large language models and AI tooling into core product flows
Write clean, tested, well-documented code with high iteration velocity
Collaborate directly with product and commercial teams on architecture and prioritisation
Required Experience
Strong software engineering fundamentals across front-end and back-end systems, with experience building and shipping product in fast-moving environments.
Core Competencies
Fluency with modern AI tooling, LLM integration, and agentic programming patterns
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to own technical decisions
Clear, disciplined written communication
Intensity, speed, and a bias toward building over discussing
Experience designing systems and automating workflows
High tolerance for scrutiny and direct feedback
Not a ticket-queue engineering role
Not maintenance or legacy system work
Not incremental feature iteration on an established product
This is greenfield infrastructure for a new category. You will build systems that do not yet exist.
Compensation & StructureCompensation: $100,000–$150,000 annually, depending on seniority
Fully remote, with mandatory monthly in-person summits in rotating global cities (Nassau, NYC, London/Europe)
Round-trip flights, hotel accommodation, and structured summit programming provided
Meaningful equity grants and annual performance bonus
We will calibrate seniority and scope to the right candidate
To Apply: Submit your CV and a link to something you built that you are proud of — a shipped product, an open-source contribution, or a technical write-up that demonstrates how you think.
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across front-end and back-end systems
- Experience building and shipping product in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Fluency with modern AI tooling and large language model (LLM) integration
- Experience with agentic programming patterns
- Ability to design systems for real-time workflows, structured argumentation, and AI-assisted adjudication
- Experience building and maintaining APIs and data pipelines
- Ability to write clean, tested, well-documented code with high iteration velocity
- Clear, disciplined written communication and ability to work asynchronously
- Comfort making architectural decisions and owning technical direction
- High tolerance for scrutiny, direct feedback, and rapid iteration
What We Do
Objection is an AI-powered technology platform for media accountability and truth verification. It functions as an 'AI Tribunal of Truth,' enabling users to challenge contested journalistic claims through an adversarial evidentiary process. By combining AI adjudication with professional investigators, the platform reviews disputed reports and publicly publishes the evidence and determinations, offering a fast and affordable alternative to traditional legal systems for vindicating reputations.








