Mesa is building a modern-day code forge for the world of agents and AI.
Software quality and the pace of development are civilizational bottlenecks. Despite the hype, AI has not yet delivered meaningful productivity gains for large software engineering teams because workflows across the SDLC haven’t yet received the codegen treatment. Critical processes like planning, reviewing, orchestrating deployments, and more are still stuck in the shitty world of GitHub where AI is given lip service but not serious product consideration.
Mesa’s mission is to build the new AI-first code forge (GitHub) and unlock a world of fast, high-quality software development for every business and institution.
We are a tight-knit team that focuses on output over process. We have a core product with a lot of traction and every engineer is expected to work with a product-first mindset.
We do not have PMs and every engineer is a Product Engineer, regardless of specialization. We expect engineers to work autonomously to explore and validate ideas or problems that may serve the mission.
Beyond the work to service our existing product and customers, the role of an engineer looks closer to that of a researcher. If you believe a feature, new product, new open-source library, or some other exploration will push the company forward you are empowered to pursue the idea and validate it and then, through your validation, fold it into the core product.
We believe in avoiding overhead, maximizing autonomy, maximizing ownership, and focusing on quality. Our only requirement is that everyone works in-person, in our office in downtown San Francisco.
Apply
Apply through one of the links below or email [email protected] with a short explanation of a problem, feature, or product related to developer productivity that you are interested in exploring.
Phone screens
Typically we do a quick intro call, and then an in-depth technical interview with a founder
Paid Onsite
We’ll fly you out to meet the team and work beside on us on a real problem for a few days. The project will be scoped such that you ship something real to users by the end.
We move fast and if all goes well, we’ll make you an offer.
Founding Applied Research Engineer
Everyone on our team including our investors are deeply technical.
Founders
Oliver Gilan (CEO) - prev Co-founded Antimetal, ex Census, Microsoft
Benjamin Warren (CTO) - ex YC, Census, Microsoft