Weave's Founding AI Engineer
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Weave (YC W25) is building the definitive platform for understanding and improving how engineering teams work. We believe the way engineering output is measured today is fundamentally broken and that modern AI can give teams a far more accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact and collaboration.
Trusted by 200+ customers such as Robinhood, Rho, PostHog and Browserbase, weâve delivered consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth since May and are looking to accelerate our growth.
As Weaveâs Founding AI Engineer, your job is to build AI to understand and improve the work that software engineers do. Youâll be building our processes and standards as you go to make building every incremental feature easier. Your goal will be to delight customers with intelligence that makes their job 10x easier.
Weâve raised a $4.2M seed round and are backed by Moonfire, Burst capital and Y Combinator (W25).
This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor and shape how millions of engineers and leaders understand engineering work.
What Weâre Building
Weave is rethinking engineering output from first principles.
We use AI to:
- Understand how engineers actually work (not just what they ship)
- Surface meaningful insights about productivity, quality, collaboration and impact
- Help teams improve outcomes without vanity metrics or surveillance
Our goal is not to optimize for âmore output,â but for better engineering.
The Team Youâll Work With
Youâll work directly with:
- Andrew (CTO) - previously a founding engineer at Causal, MIT alum. Andrew has been in your shoes and is deeply committed to providing the mentorship, ownership and growth he had as an early engineer.
- Adam (CEO) - leads sales and customer discovery. Adam is a former sales executive at multiple high-growth startups and deeply embedded with customers and scaled multiple sales teams from $0-30M in ARR.
This is a small, intense, highly collaborative team. You will have real ownership from day one.
Requirements
You are a good fit for Weave if you are a formidable engineer. This means you stop at nothing to accomplish your goal. We donât care much about your current skills or even what youâve done before; we care that you will be able to do anything you set your mind to.
You must also be pragmatic. Weave is a startup so something is always on fire. You need to know when to let little fires burn and when to break out the extinguisher.
You must be a very good engineer whoâs committed to becoming a great engineer. The slope is more important than the Y-intercept.
You must be empathetic. Weâre building products for other people, so you need to be able to understand how other people think and why.
You must care about helping other software engineering teams be great. If thatâs not an exciting mission for you, it will be hard to stay motivated through the inevitable highs and lows.
You must be an excellent communicator. Youâll be working on a product thatâs communicating with millions of engineers and leaders, so you need to be clear.
Finally you must be gritty. You should be accustomed to picking the hard option and pushing through it.
Benefits & conditions
Our tech stack is React + TypeScript on the frontend, Go on the backend, and Python for ML. Experience with any of those three languages is a bonus.
If youâve already done lots of thinking about engineering productivity and how to improve it, thatâs great and we want to hear about it!
We hope your design sensibilities are passable.
Why Join
- Competitive pay + early equity
- Health/vision/dental insurance covered
- Free lunch/dinners/snacks
- Yearly team offsite with regular team events
- Yearly $500 learning/development stipend
- Get to work in SF with one of the fastest moving teams (95%+ percentile code output)
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