About Saffron
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.
Company details
Funding
Last stage
Seed
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Founders
Kazuma Choji
Studied CS and Math at Harvey Mudd College; published researcher at NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV.
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Robert 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
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.