TLDR : Spur is any company’s AI QA Engineer. Spur lets you test your website with natural language. We launch web agents that mimic real users.
Spur is founded by 2 Yale Alums, Ex-Figma & DeepMind. We are backed by leading investors (First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction). We are transforming the testing world, completely re-imagining automations from first principles. We're already accelerating engineering teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
As our first engineering hire, you will have unparalleled autonomy to architect solutions, drive technical decisions, build culture, and bring innovative features to life for our customers. You'll own the entire development lifecycle—from ideation, to deployment, to marketing—working across our full technology stack to ship and communicate features to our customers.
Here is an example of what that could look like: A Week of Sprints at Spur 💨💨
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If the prospect of cross functional roles excites you, we will craft a role where you will have the opportunity to:
Spur is an AI-powered QA platform (YC S24) that builds autonomous browser agents to test websites and applications like real users. Trusted by top e-commerce brands including Alo Yoga, Living Spaces, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, and Abercrombie & Fitch, Spur is reimagining how digital teams ship with confidence.
Our Mission: Don't make your users QA your product. We want to help our customers deliver the best digital experiences possible.
Instead of brittle scripts or endless manual testing, Spur uses agentic AI that adapts to UI changes, catches real bugs, and runs tests in parallel. The company owns all infrastructure in-house, from the browsers that are launched to the simulators and emulators that run tests, to the UI that presents results to customers.
Culture: Spur is a small, elite team of builders from DeepMind, Figma, ex-founders, and customers. The team values high agency, curiosity, and a relentless focus on delighting users. Engineers are generalists who work across the entire stack, are customer-facing, and move fast with minimal hand-holding.
Salary
$130,000 - $225,000
Equity
0.2% - 2%
Location
New York, NY
Experience
0+ years
Total raised
$5M
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.