Wafer AI

Wafer AI

Inference that keeps getting better. Wafer continuously optimizes your inference stack.

San Francisco
14 employees
ai, hardware
Seed · $4M
Founded 2025

About Wafer AI

Wafer builds AI agents that work as autonomous performance engineers, optimizing GPU kernels for AI inference.

Our product is serverless and dedicated inference for the world’s fastest open source LLMs, achieved by Wafer's autonomous performance engineers.

Benefits

  • • Fully covered medical, dental and vision, daily lunch and dinner, unlimited PTO and parental leave, and a $1,000 a month housing stipend for anyone living within half a mile of the office

Open positions (1)

Company details

Team Size14
LocationSan Francisco
Industryai, hardware

Funding

Total raised

$4M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Emilio Andere

Emilio Andere

prev @ argonne, uchicago sand lab, elicit. math at uchicago.

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Steven Arellano

Steven Arellano

prev @ two sigma, google, sei labs, and axlab. cs + econ at uchicago.

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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.