Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code.
The way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. Saffron gives teams full visibility into how candidates use AI agents to build, debug, and ship real features on an actual codebase.
Saffron was founded by Robert Chondro (formerly MIT and Jane Street), Jerry Yao (Stanford and Jane Street), and Kazuma Choji (Harvey Mudd, published in NeurIPS and ICML), and is backed by Y Combinator (P26) and Afore Capital.
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Kazuma Choji
Studied CS and Math at Harvey Mudd College; published researcher at NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV.
LinkedInRobert Chondro
Studied Mathematics & Computer Science at MIT; previously at Jane Street and Morgan Stanley.
LinkedInJerry Yao
Building AI-native technical assessments Prev. CS + math @ Stanford
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.