# Founding Engineer

About Hobbes A company's most valuable asset is the conversation it has with a buyer. Most B2B websites lose that conversation at the "request a demo" form. Hobbes is a self-improving, autonomous product expert that runs real, conversational product demos 24/7. That's Phase 1. The real bet is a self-improving agentic layer that runs the revenue side of a business. Every conversation a prospect has with the agent is logged, measured, and fed back into the product. Five prospects tell Hobbes they want to buy but need Hubspot integrated as a non-starter? Hobbes creates the PR autonomously and updates those prospects that it's ready to go-live. We have secured $6M in funding and have tripled since February, mostly on inbound. One customer 2x'd their revenue within 8 weeks of deploying Hobbes. Another closed a deal within 2-hours of Hobbes going live on their site. Demos are where we start. Our vision is the future of autonomous sales and self-improving products, with agent-to-agent sales, world models, and self-improving product feedback loops all in the works. About the Role You’ll join Hobbes as our third engineer on a team of five, working directly with co-founders Arjun (CTO) and C

- **Id**: 853694
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hihobbes-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-13T05:29:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T05:05:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 209
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- **Benefits**: Equity, Gym membership, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 680311
- **Name**: Syra Ventures, Inc.
- **Domain**: hihobbes.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hihobbes>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 208

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T04:59:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.135
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 208
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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