Job Details

Title

Founding Engineer

Why

I've been building something that works. The problem is I'm the bottleneck - architect, engineer, operator, all one person. That doesn't scale, and what we're building deserves better than one set of hands.

Comp

Equity. No cash until profitable - targeting end of summer.

Who

Pre-AI: full code warrior. Post-AI: a year's work in a day.

Hungry - and clear-eyed about why.

Self-aware. Self-managed. Self-directed.

What

We're building a universal constructor.

A general-purpose builder which builds products - lots of them, across unrelated domains, at a pace most orgs can't plan at.

The first few ship soon. We don't know what the tenth one is.

We know what makes all of them possible.

One company. One root system, many product branches.

No VC if we can help it.

No-Go

If a clear goal isn't enough for you to figure out the rest, this isn't the role.

CEO

Zero-start built and operated across 14 industries.

Built a billion-dollar division inside an F500.

Hundreds of products launched. Millions sold.

A growing collection of historical firsts.

Driven companies into the ground. Came back and swung harder.

Loads of scar tissue on the path to wisdom.

Passionate but hold most things loosely.

Mid-thirties. Bay Area.

Apply

Tell me why you're the one. Teach me something I don't know about something you find interesting.

Only meeting people I'm genuinely excited about. Email applications: _@c42.io