Poka Labs
Helping industrial manufacturers win deals fast, at the right price.
About Poka Labs
Helping industrial manufacturers win deals fast, at the right price.
Benefits
- • Free lunch
- • Free dinner (when working late)
- • Equity (0.5–1.25%)
- • Customer travel opportunities
- • True ownership over core architecture and product
- • Direct collaboration with founders
- • New office (upcoming move)
Open positions (5)
Founding Deployment Strategist
Fullstack / AI Engineer (4+ YOE)
Product Designer (Contract)
Enterprise Implementation Engineer
Fullstack/AI Engineer
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Wayne Cheng
Founding software engineer and AI full-stack developer.
Andrew Bass
Andrew is the Co-Founder and CTO of Poka Labs. Before Poka, he worked on critical data infrastructure systems at Meta, as well as optimization software at a Series A startup (acquired) that helped mobility companies boost their revenue 40%. He has both an MBA and MS degree at Harvard where he focused on ML systems.
LinkedIn
Malay Shah
Malay is the Co-Founder and CEO of Poka Labs. He earned degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from NC State and an MBA from Harvard Business School. With a background in the specialty chemicals industry, Malay has held various positions in operations and engineering working across plants in US, Germany, and China. His work in deploying chemical expertise with advanced analytics has saved his previous employers tens of millions of dollars.
LinkedInWhat 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.