About the role
First full-time software engineer hire (CDI) at Ooak Data (YC S26). The core challenge is building and scaling a data connector platform — a UI for clients to plug in and manage 50+ different data source types (Google Drive, Slack, emails, videos, images, etc.), each with its own quirks. They can't use a generic connector; each extension type needs custom handling. Currently managed by freelancers; this hire starts the permanent engineering team.
About Ooak Data
Ooak Data (YC S26) builds the data infrastructure that frontier AI labs use to train and evaluate their agent models. They collect enterprise data from real company tools — Google Drive, Slack, Gmail, Notion, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, emails, videos, images — anonymize it, and turn it into RL environments and digital twins for agent training. Their core product, Alexandria, is designed to be the world's largest library of real-world business workflow datasets. They're also growing into "enrichment" — creating task ecosystems that let labs train models directly on real-world multi-step workflows, not just receive raw data. Signed large purchase orders with frontier AI labs (not SaaS), now in delivery mode. Data anonymization pipeline has been reduced from ~1 month to ~2 weeks per client.
