Founding Product Engineer
Mountain View, CAFull-time$150–200K/yrSeen 1mo agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Naive is building autonomous companies using agent systems and offers a platform called Vetta. The Founding Product Engineer will build Naive Studio, creating full‑stack features from concept through launch, designing intuitive interfaces, and turning data into product decisions.
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Full job description
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 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,702 open Product Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–200K/yr
- California median$157–250K/yr399 salary ranges
- US median$137–230K/yr1,243 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $175K, is 13% below the California median midpoint ($201K) — in the middle half of Product Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 548 open Product Engineer jobs in California and 1,702 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Product Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,353 postings).
- Education
- 579 of the 1,702 open Product Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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