About the role
About Naive
Naive is building autonomous companies: agent systems capable of operating real businesses end to end.
We release autonomous company templates and benchmarks, alongside a studio—where users can deploy and operate these systems. Our infrastructure platform, Vetta, powers long-running, high-volume agent workloads.
We’ve raised $28.5M from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 and leading operators.
The Role
Build real-world agent environments, benchmarks and autonomous company blueprints—and make Vetta the best-performing agent within them. Accordingly, as a founding MTS member, you have the chance to earn significant equity in a fast growing Series A company.
What You’ll Do
- Turn complex business workflows into reproducible agent environments
- Design tasks, rewards, evals and benchmarks that measure real outcomes
- Build production-ready autonomous company blueprints
- Run experiments, analyze failures and improve agent performance
- Develop training data and optimization loops from agent trajectories
- Publish credible benchmarks, technical reports and demos
Must-Haves
- Strong Python and research-engineering ability
- Experience building agents, evals or RL environments
- Deep understanding of tool use, long-horizon tasks and LLM failure modes
- Ability to design rigorous experiments and ship production systems
- High agency and comfort working on ambiguous 0→1 problems
Nice-to-Haves
- RL or post-training experience
- Browser, coding or computer-use agent experience
- Experience publishing benchmarks or technical research
- Familiarity with distributed agent infrastructure
P.S. If you’ve made it to the bottom of this listing and are serious about every point on this role, send Sean a LinkedIn connect with a note.
About Naïve
Autonomous Company Infrastructure
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$190,000 - $225,000
Equity
2% - 4%
Location
Mountain View, CA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$2M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What 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.
