# Founding Engineer @ Vela | Solving Scheduling at Vela

- Company: Vela (YC W26)
- What the company does: AI Recruiting Coordinator for Executive Search. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://tryvela.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $110K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vela/jobs/RCx5tKX-founding-engineer-vela-solving-scheduling
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vela-founding-engineer-vela-solving-scheduling/

## About the role

We are a team of obsessive thinkers, builders, and doers from Harvard, CMU, UChicago, UPenn, GT, and more. We have published papers, own patents, built companies, and received international accolades. Most of all, we are a group of friends (some would say family) who work hard (9-9-6) to solve some of the most challenging problems faced by real people.

## What they're looking for

- Ultra intellectually curious (you are active in competitions/championships such as ICPC, IOI, Putnam, etc, or do research for funzies, or win hackathons etc.)
- Have crazy amounts of agency (passion projects 4 life, things annoy you? - you just fix them)
- Love working with friends (extremely strong opinions, weakly held, have a great sense of humor)
- Build agents and are an AI power user (but can think for yourself)
- Fast learner
- Curious about Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning

Tags: Engineering