We’re building the Insurer for the Agent Economy. Mount (YC P26) enables safe industry-wide adoption of AI systems, agents, and autonomous workflows.
We want a sharp, AI-native engineer to own the first version of our underwriting engine. You’ll work across risk modelling, decision logic, internal tooling, and early AI security features that help us understand and price risk for deployed AI systems.
This role is a fit for someone early in their career who is unusually strong. You might be a standout student, recent grad, or young engineer who learns fast, ships fast, and wants real ownership. Mount’s team is an intentionally small collection of people who are excellent at what they’ve joined it for, so you should be too.
What you’ll do:
You should be comfortable going from vague problem to working system, using AI tools heavily and natively, and owning messy, cross-functional work. This is an on-site role with high ownership.
TLDR: Mount is building the AI insurance carrier, starting with liability coverage for deployed AI agents. As everyone moves AI Agents into production and gives them more responsibility, we help businesses insure and secure them.
Whenever responsibility shifts from human operators to autonomous systems, so too does the liability that accompanies it. The systems also introduce new risks: agentic software failures, prompt injection attacks, autonomous workflow errors, data leaks, and more.
Legacy insurance was not built for this. Existing policies are often silent, ambiguous, or exclude autonomous software, and traditional insurers lack the data and technical capability to assess deployed AI Systems.
Our first product, the Mount AI Liability Policy, is built for mid-market and enterprise companies deploying autonomous AI agents in real business processes. We scan and red-team AI deployments, quantify operational risk, help fix vulnerabilities, and insure the residual risk with purpose-built AI liability coverage.
Mount is best thought of as a highly automated version of today's commercial insurance carriers, which run on manual workflows, layers of intermediaries, and tens of thousands of employees. AI enables automation of underwriting, pricing, policy issuance, claims, fraud detection, customer support, and distribution. We believe that the best way to use this opportunity is to rebuild those processes from the ground up.
Salary
$170,000 - $210,000
Equity
0.4% - 1.4%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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.