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Founding Software Engineer

Greylock Partners
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/4/2026

Greylock’s latest seed investment is building the next interface for how enterprise employees interact with computers. Founded by two second-time founders, they're creating an AI agent that can observe, understand, and act on a user’s computer, enabling employees to describe an outcome and have the AI execute complex workflows end-to-end.


This gives enterprises immediate, measurable value and establishes them as a trusted assistant embedded directly into the user’s daily computer experience.


The company is founded by two repeat entrepreneurs with deep enterprise AI experience and a history of operating at massive scale, leading genAI for one of the most prominent tech startups for multiple years. The company is in stealth and based in San Francisco.


  • 2 years of experience building production-level software
  • Strong CS fundamentals and full-stack development experience
  • Proficient in Python and JavaScript
  • Eager and curious about developing a complex AI system


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About Greylock:


Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, and Palo Alto Networks. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/


About the Greylock Recruiting team and me:


  • As full-time, salaried employees of Greylock, our team provides free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments to help them grow/succeed (as one of our many services). Our recruiting team has over 125 years of in-house recruiting experience at successful startups through FAANG’s and over 30 years of VC Talent.

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