Maingen

RL environments for industrial operations

San Francisco

2 employees

AI

Seed

Website

About Maingen

Maingen builds RL environments for industrial operations ($5 trillion slice of the US economy) so frontier labs can train models that actually run factories.

Company details

Team Size2

LocationSan Francisco

IndustryAI

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Phillip Yan

Previously in energy markets, applied federal AI research for radio signals. Ex-Columbia.

David Yang

CTO of Maingen (S26). Prev. Idler (S25), Scale AI, Reticular (F24), and Amazon. Cited by Anthropic for ICLR2025 mech-interp paper.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.