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Founding Engineer (Summer)— SF, in-person, paid + room & board (YC S26)

Cerenovus · San Francisco, CA, US

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Job Description

We're three Harvard sophomores in Y Combinator's S26 batch, building AI agents that turn everything a company produces (email, Slack, docs, CRM) into a living map of how the business actually works. Pilot customers are live. We're hiring two people for the summer — you'd be among the first five engineers on the product.

What you'll do

  • Build multi-agent ingestion pipelines: email/Slack/CRM/accounting → knowledge graph
  • Do entity resolution and systems-mapping inference over messy real-world enterprise data
  • Orchestrate agents on Claude, with an effectively unlimited token budget
  • Own systems end to end — code you write Monday is in front of a customer Friday

What we're looking for

  • Strong CS fundamentals — shown through coursework, competitions (USACO/ICPC/CTF), research, or shipped projects
  • Systems-level thinking: you reason in dataflows and failure modes, not just features
  • High agency — you've built and shipped things nobody assigned you
  • Solid in Python and TypeScript/React; Rust or other systems experience is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with LLM agents (orchestration, tool use, evals) is a big plus
  • On-site in SF, full-time for the summer, comfortable with very long hours (996)

What you get

  • Paid monthly + a private room in our SF house + food covered (exact comp on the first call)
  • The full YC summer: batch events, the speaker series (past batches: Sam Altman, the Airbnb and Stripe founders), Demo Day in September
  • A founding-engineer conversion path, equity terms in writing at offer stage

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