The shared context layer for recursive companies. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re looking for an intern who can build. You’ll work directly with the founders on the shared context layer for recursive companies: a data lake that ingests everything a team produces with AI, an ontology that turns it into trustworthy, typed knowledge, and the loop that lets people and agents improve from it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- The instinct to ship before it’s perfect
- Autonomy. You’ll get context, feedback, and fast answers from the founders, but no one will hand you a detailed spec. You get a problem and you figure out how to solve it
- Opinions about the products you use. If you’ve never looked at an app and thought “this is wrong and here’s how I’d fix it,” we’re probably not a match
- Comfort with ambiguity. The product moves fast, and what matters in week 1 may differ from week 6. That should excite you
More about this role
We’re looking for an intern who can build. You’ll work directly with the founders on the shared context layer for recursive companies: a data lake that ingests everything a team produces with AI, an ontology that turns it into trustworthy, typed knowledge, and the loop that lets people and agents improve from it.
This is not a sandbox project. We’re two people, so you will own a real piece of the product, ship it to real users, and see how they use it. You’ll get a scoped project in week one. By the end, the work you shipped will be live in production.
- You have shipped something real: a side project, a hackathon build that people actually used, a tool you made for yourself and still use every day. You’ve gone from nothing to working software at least once.
- You are comfortable learning a new stack quickly. We ship native desktop apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux, a CLI and background daemon, agent integrations, and a cloud backend, across several languages. You don’t need experience in all of these. You do need to pick things up fast.
- You reach for AI tools instinctively (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and you’re faster because of it. If your first instinct under pressure is to...
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