Firebender YC Startup Hiring Founding Engineer for AI Coding Agent Development
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Summary
Firebender, a Y Combinator startup, is seeking a Founding Engineer (Generalist) to join their team building advanced AI coding agents. The company processes tens of billions of tokens daily for thousands of concurrent coding agents and auto-complete models, with hundreds of millions of lines of code added monthly to client codebases. The role involves building agentic evaluation systems, managing H100 cluster infrastructure, implementing runtime improvements, and gathering engineer feedback. The position requires impressive engineering accomplishments, 0-3 years experience (CS degree optional), and willingness to work extremely hard in a tight-knit team with no work-life balance expectations. The company emphasizes solving hard technical challenges and helping thousands of engineers leverage AI.
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We take our work seriously, and to set clear expectations, this is not a place for work life balance. There are plenty of other large companies with long management chains that can offer this, but we cannot with such a small team.
If pushing yourself and intense challenges are exciting to you, then we'd love to work with you
Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model.
Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500.
