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Founding Member of Technical Staff — RL

Naïve · Mountain View, CA, US · On-site

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About Naïve

Autonomous Company Infrastructure. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Build real-world agent environments, benchmarks and autonomous company blueprints—and make Vetta the best-performing agent within them. Accordingly, as a founding MTS member, you have the chance to earn significant equity in a fast growing Series A company.

What they're looking for

  • Strong Python and research-engineering ability
  • Experience building agents, evals or RL environments
  • Deep understanding of tool use, long-horizon tasks and LLM failure modes
  • Ability to design rigorous experiments and ship production systems
  • High agency and comfort working on ambiguous 0→1 problems
More about this role

Naive is building autonomous companies: agent systems capable of operating real businesses end to end.

We release autonomous company templates and benchmarks, alongside a studio—where users can deploy and operate these systems. Our infrastructure platform, Vetta, powers long-running, high-volume agent workloads.

We’ve raised $28.5M from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 and leading operators.

Build real-world agent environments, benchmarks and autonomous company blueprints—and make Vetta the best-performing agent within them. Accordingly, as a founding MTS member, you have the chance to earn significant equity in a fast growing Series A company.

  • Turn complex business workflows into reproducible agent environments
  • Design tasks, rewards, evals and benchmarks that measure real outcomes
  • Build production-ready autonomous company blueprints
  • Run experiments, analyze failures and improve agent performance
  • Develop training data and optimization loops from agent trajectories
  • Publish credible benchmarks, technical reports and demos
  • Strong Python and research-engineering ability
  • Experience building agents, evals or RL environments
  • Deep...

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