Founding Product Engineer
Required skills
- full-stack engineering
- UI/UX ability
- product taste
- 0->1 product
- LLMs
- agentic systems
- product-marketing instincts
- high agency
- identify and solve problems
Nice to have
- ex-founder
- early startup engineer
- developer tools
- AI-native products
- agent orchestration
- MCP
Role summary
Naive is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to build their Naive Studio, an interface for deploying and operating autonomous companies powered by agent systems. This role involves full-stack development using Next.js, TypeScript, Python, and FastAPI, alongside UI/UX design for complex agent systems. The engineer will own features from concept to launch, leveraging customer research, usage data, and feedback to drive product decisions. Key requirements include strong full-stack and UI/UX skills, exceptional product taste, experience with LLMs and agentic systems, and high agency. Preferred qualifications include experience with developer tools, AI-native products, or agent orchestration.
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 a $28.5M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 and leading operators.
## The Role
Build Naive Studio: the interface where users deploy and operate autonomous companies. You’ll own features from product concept and UX through engineering, launch and growth.
## What You’ll Do
* Build full-stack with Next.js, TypeScript, Python and FastAPI
* Design polished, intuitive interfaces for complex agent systems
* Own features from customer research and prototyping through launch
* Create demos, launch content and campaigns for what you ship
* Turn usage data and customer feedback into product decisions
* Establish a high bar for design, performance and shipping velocity
## Must-Haves
* Strong full-stack engineering and UI/UX ability
* Exceptional product taste and attention to detail
* Experience shipping a 0→1 product
* Real experience building with LLMs and agentic systems
* Strong written communication and product-marketing instincts
* High agency—you independently identify and solve problems
## Nice-to-Haves
* Ex-founder or early startup engineer
* Experience with developer tools or AI-native products
* Familiarity with agent orchestration, MCP or SDK design
* Experience producing demos, launch videos or technical content
_P.S. If you’re serious about this role, send Sean a LinkedIn connection request with a note._
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