We’re building a new product called Zo (from the greek root for living being): an AI workspace backed by an adaptive, stateful computer. We’re looking for a founding engineer to join two cofounders.
Founders: Ben and Rob have been friends since meeting at Venmo in 2013. Ben worked at Stripe for 8 years. Rob worked at Fin (human-in-the-loop AI executive assistant, before LLMs) and was founding eng at Substack.
We started our first product, Substrate in 2023, a platform for building agentic workflows, and raised an $8M seed round led by Lightspeed. We were pushing the envelope on both infra (serving multi-model workloads efficiently) and developer experience (ahead of our time in several ways). Though we found solid traction with startups, we realized inference was a red ocean especially upmarket, and decided to spin down the product/team at the end of 2024.
We’ve spent the last 6 months prototyping and discarding ideas, and we’re now gearing up to launch our latest product. We know we’re onto something here, based on early feedback from friends & founders.
We don’t care about your “on paper” experience, as long as you’re:
We’re based in Brooklyn (in Bushwick off the Morgan L). We have a pretty sweet office, including an in-office gym. In-person preferred, but open to remote.
