About the job
We’re an early-stage AI company backed by top-tier investors and world-class angels, including Pear VC. We’re working with forward-leaning customers who are aggressively adopting AI at scale, building systems at the frontier of what’s possible.
Our founding team comes from Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Snap and Roblox — veteran builders who’ve shipped large-scale, high-impact products. We’re now assembling a small, exceptional team to build a category-defining AI company.
If you want to build from zero, move fast, learn faster, and take true ownership with founding-level equity, this is one of those once-in-a-decade moments.
What You’ll Do
- Build core systems powering next-generation intelligent agent capabilities
- Rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship production features used by enterprise customers
- Work directly with founders to shape product, architecture, and culture
- Collaborate with customers to deeply understand workflows and pain points
- Explore emerging techniques in reasoning, orchestration, and multi-agent behavior
- Operate with extreme autonomy — owning projects end-to-end from idea → value
Who You Are
- 1–7 years of strong engineering experience
- Fast learner who thrives in ambiguity and loves figuring things out
- Obsessed with customers — eager to talk to users and ship solutions they rely on
- Hands-on builder comfortable moving from prototype → production quickly
- Strong fundamentals across Python, TypeScript, backend systems, or infra
Great team player who enjoys collaborating in a high-velocity environment
Why This Role Is Rare
- Backed by elite VCs and top angel operators
- Selected into one of the most competitive accelerator cohorts globally
- Founding-level equity and true ownership
- Strong early traction with high-caliber early customers
- Small, elite team — your work will define the company
- Massive whitespace in a rapidly shifting market
- The chance to build foundational AI systems at the frontier
Skills Required
- 1–7 years of strong engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals across Python, TypeScript, backend systems, or infra
Shiplight AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Shiplight AI and has not been reviewed or approved by Shiplight AI.
-
Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is emphasized for early hires, described as “founding-level” or “generous” across public role materials. This points to meaningful ownership opportunities at the seed stage.
-
Flexible Benefits — A hybrid work model is referenced in public role descriptions, indicating flexibility in work arrangement. Such flexibility can support differing personal and location needs during early scaling.
Shiplight AI Insights
What We Do
Shiplight plugs into your coding agent to verify changes in a real browser while you build, then turns those verifications into stable regression tests with near-zero maintenance.
Gallery
