📍San Francisco

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Our mission

To build the next generation of purpose-built developer tooling to bend the curve on software quality and development velocity. We are starting with the problem of code review and quality control.

The role

We’re seeking a maker - someone with the curiosity to explore critical ideas and the hardcore software engineering skills to implement and validate those ideas. As an applied researcher you’ll be responsible for finding, building, and validating ideas before the company commits more resources to them.

You’ll be going 0-to-1 on countless features and finding novel ways to apply the latest research on LLMs and traditional software (think Google’s new version control, or Facebook’s code indexer) to a production-ready product.

Our team & investors

Mesa is lead by two repeat founders

• Oliver Gilan (CEO) - prev Co-founded Antimetal, ex Census, Microsoft
• Benjamin Warren (CTO) - ex YC, Census, Microsoft

We are backed by incredible, deeply technical, investors including Innovation Endeavors, Essence VC, South Park Commons, Thomas Wolf (CSO @ Hugging Face), Soleio, and others.

Why build The Mesa?

• Solve a high-leverage problem: Fixing the software development lifecycle is one of the highest leverage problem in the world. As the demands of software grow, the Software Crisis worsens every year. If you care about developer experience, there’s no better product to work on and team to work with.
• Be seen by the world’s greatest builders: Our early investors and users invented search, the feed and the like button. From day 1, your code will empower great builders to create the next big thing.
• Build for yourself: Mesa’s mission is to further the abilities of software engineers. The tools you build will be used by yourself in daily work to make you more capable.

You’ll be a good fit if you…

• Love to push technical boundaries. As a collaborative developer tool Mesa is deployed on the web, text editors, CLIs, etc. You feel comfortable and excited to build software across tech stacks and domains and enjoy reading technical papers.
• Are driven by product outcomes. You care ultimately about the end-user experience and not just a research paper. You are excited to test and validate the latest ideas in software engineering in a way that’s released as a product feature, open source library, standard, etc.
• Are deeply curious. You enjoy autonomy and have endless curiosity about programming and the way engineering teams operate. You have a bunch of tools that you wish existed that don’t.