# Founding Member of Technical Staff — RL at Naïve

- Company: Naïve (YC P25)
- What the company does: Autonomous Company Infrastructure. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://usenaive.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-19
- Apply by: 2026-11-03
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/naive/jobs/OTnFKjw-founding-member-of-technical-staff-rl
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/naive-founding-member-of-technical-staff-rl/

## 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

Tags: Engineering