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Substrate Labs | Founding Engineer | NYC or remote | https://www.notion.so/Substrate-Labs-Founding-Engineer-2067b... Founders Ben [0] and Rob [1] have been friends since meeting at Venmo in 2013. Ben worked at Stripe for 8 years. Rob worked at Fin (human-in-the-loop AI executive assistant, before LLMs) and was founding engineer at Substack. We started our first product, Substrate in 2023, a platform for building agentic workflows, and raised an $8M seed round led by Lightspeed [2]. We were pushing the envelope on both infra (serving multi-model workloads efficiently) and developer experience (ahead of our time in several ways) [3]. Though we found solid traction with startups, we realized inference was a red ocean especially upmarket, and decided to spin down the product/team at the end of 2024. We've spent the last 6 months prototyping and discarding ideas, and we’re now gearing up to launch our latest vision, a consumer AI application. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgdotjpg [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkcheung [2] https://lsvp.com/stories/substrate-building-compound-ai-syst... [3] https://docs.substrate.run/ Email me (ben [at] substrate) with your resume. Competitive comp with meaningful equity.