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We design AI agents that operate across the full sales action set, from account strategy to prospect research and outreach. Building 0→1 has never been easier, but selling at the speed of the market remains the last frontier for AI. Our mission is to 10x every seller by automating the busywork so they can focus on what humans do best: closing deals.\nToday, over 1,500 customers run on Nooks, including Notion, HubSpot, Cursor, and Rippling. We’ve raised $70M+ from top VCs like Kleiner Perkins, which made its first sales-tech investment in over a decade with us. Since then, we’ve tripled ARR each year for 3 years running and grown a high-caliber team turning the art of sales into a scalable science.\nAbout the Role\nSales software was built for humans. But we believe most sales work will be done by agents within the next two years. We're building out multiple vertical products (AI Dialer, AI Prospecting, AI Sequencing, Agent Studio) to get there. 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Mentor senior engineers, run the hardest design reviews, and help us hire more people like you.\n\nYou might be a strong fit if:\n8+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead of a meaningful product area, a founder, or a domain expert other engineers turn to.\n\nProduction experience with AI features. For example, you've debugged misbehaving agents and built the evals to keep issues from recurring.\n\nStrong opinions, held loosely, about what the product surface of human-agent collaboration should look like.\n\nNot afraid to hop on a call with a customer to validate a feature you just built.\n\nYou make the rest of the company faster.\n\nBased in San Francisco, excited to be in-office 3+ days per week.\n\nAt Nooks You'll Enjoy\nA world-class team. Around 40 engineers, mostly former founders or founding engineers and veteran builders from places like Applied Intuition, Scale, Airtable, Citadel, and Jane Street. 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