What Is Hivemind?

Hivemind is a social AI that has one-on-one conversations with many people at once. It exists to answer the universal human question: “what do people really think about ___?”

Everyone holds a fragment of the truth: whether that new restaurant down the street is really any good or just hyped, why everyone’s leaving that one AI lab for the other… Hivemind talks to everyone, piecing together the whole truth at a resolution no single person can.

Since kicking off our beta program earlier this year, Hivemind has orchestrated first dates between strangers, tracked down a famously hard-to-find bottle of riesling… and heard things before they became headlines. We’ve detailed our motivations and philosophy in our constitution.

Now Hiring: Founding Engineer

§1 — TLDR.

We’re looking for founding members of technical staff: engineers who will co-own Hivemind’s technical foundation from day zero and help define our taste in people as the team grows.

§2 — Why You Should Care.

Social intelligence is a frontier problem across product, engineering, and research. And the challenges compound as we scale from hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands… and beyond. If you like thinking from first principles to invent something without precedent, you’d have fun with this problem space.

The current team (ex-Apple, ex-Midjourney) is design and research focused, so as one of the first full-time engineers you’ll define Hivemind’s technical foundations. You’ll also shape product direction and co-author original research in social and collective intelligence alongside the best in both.

We’re backed by First Round Capital, with angels including Biz Stone (Twitter), Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Evan Sharp (Pinterest), Ari Weinstein (OpenAI) and others.

§3 — What You’ll Do.

  • Build the core infrastructure that makes Hivemind work: context management, model orchestration, the systems that let one AI reason across a fractal network of relationships.
  • Build and scale systems that learn continually from many users’ feedback in real time.
  • Work across backend, AI infra, data, and devops as the work demands.
  • Go from idea to production in days, with real attention to craftsmanship, quality, and reliability.

§4 — Who You Are.

  • You write excellent code, take pride in the work being yours, and would rather own a large ambiguous problem end to end than execute a spec someone else wrote.
  • You’ve shipped and scaled robust, reliable systems, and you’re comfortable owning backend and infra outright.
  • You have production experience with distributed systems or AI infrastructure.
  • You’ve built social products, think in network effects and product outcomes.
  • You’ve worked on scrappy, early teams or were a founder in a past life, so you value the collision between vision and reality we call “shipping.”
  • You’re fearless inside your craft and a good student outside it. Either way, you have the resourcefulness to figure it out.
  • Most importantly… you want what you build to matter.

§5 — Compensation.

Competitive base + founding-team equity + benefits.

We’ll work in person in our studio in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

§6 — Apply.

Email careers@hivemind.ai and tell us about something you’ve built that only you could have built.