Small team · San Francisco

Building a friendly, persuasive agent.

LLMs are trained to follow the human they're talking to. Sela has to do the opposite: read someone's intent and tone and gently steer the conversation toward a goal, well enough to outperform some of the best sales teams in the country. Frontier models aren't built for that. We are.

The Problems Are Genuinely Hard

A quick tour of what you'd actually be working on.

An LLM That Leads, Not Follows

  • Models are optimized to follow the user — we need them to lead
  • Persuade and adapt to a real person without going off-script
  • A research-flavored problem the labs aren’t optimizing for

Real-Time, Non-Deterministic

  • What sounds like one agent is a swarm of specialists handing off mid-call
  • We rewrite the agent’s context, tools, and instructions between turns
  • All inside a few hundred milliseconds, every single turn

Testing Things With No Right Answer

  • Conversations aren’t functions that return true or false
  • Turn-level evals on real moments, plus full end-to-end simulations
  • Simulated callers, LLM-as-judge, and metrics per behavior

Real People, Real Responsibility

  • People tell our agents genuinely personal things
  • Security and privacy are design constraints, not a checkbox
  • Bounded autonomy — unsafe actions simply don’t exist for the agent

Small Team, Big Stakes

A high-density team building directly with the founders out of San Francisco. We're still small, so every hire has an outsized impact on the product and how it's built.

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What We Care About

Everyone's a bar raiser

A high-density team where the bar is high and everyone makes the people around them better.

Helpful by default

How we treat each other matters. Helpfulness and decency are part of the bar, not optional extras.

Ship Fast

Move quickly, get the product into people’s hands, learn, and iterate. Velocity is part of how we work.

Transparency

We’re open about numbers, plans, problems, and tradeoffs. Everyone knows where things stand.

The Practical Stuff

Straightforward, generous where it counts, and built for a team that spends most of its time building together in San Francisco.

Medical

Top-of-market health coverage for you and your dependents.

Dental & Vision

Comprehensive dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents.

401(k) Matching

A top-of-market employer match on your retirement contributions.

Meaningful Equity

Real ownership in what we’re building, granted at an early stage.

Competitive Comp

Salaries benchmarked to senior and staff engineering roles in San Francisco.

Unlimited PTO

Take the time you need to rest and recharge.

Dinner On Us

Dinner on the company any night you’re still at the office in the evening.

Hybrid In Office

Four days a week together in SF, with a flexible remote day on Wednesdays.

Join Us

We're looking for high-agency people who want real ownership and want to help build a large, lasting company. Explore current openings and apply through Ashby below.

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