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Led by a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, we’re united by a mission to rescue next-gen from Social Atrophy.\nOur MoatPhygtl builds systems that help students meet and build identity in real life. Vyry is a context-aware initiation engine where quests end in physical action. Retention is earned through participation — not notifications.\nThe Role\nYou’ll join the team building Vyry, a mobile app that helps students meet in real life through short, coordinated campus quests.\n\nRight now, our focus is Quest Participation optimization: keeping peers on the quest screen while they coordinate via chat, voice, and AR Meet, without state glitches, drop-offs, or broken realtime behavior.\n\nThis role is not about “building chatbots.”\n\nIt’s about shipping realtime intelligence inside a live social product, where state correctness, latency, and user trust matter.\n\nWhat You’ll Work On\nDesigning context-aware quest logic (physical + social + temporal signals)\n\nDetecting stall or drop-off conditions during coordination\n\nSuggesting structured micro-actions that increase completion probability\n\nInstrumenting evaluation loops tied to measurable behavioral outcomes\n\nShipping production-facing components\n\nYou will operate on top of existing real-time systems — not rebuild infrastructure.\nWhat We’re Looking ForYou are:\nA strong computer science or engineering student\n\nSomeone who has shipped real systems (GitHub required)\n\nComfortable reasoning about state transitions and edge cases\n\nCurious about AI systems beyond simple prompt usage\n\nAble to move from idea → working prototype quickly\n\nYou should be able to:\nDesign a simple state-aware workflow\n\nThink through failure modes\n\nExplain tradeoffs (latency, cost, reliability)\n\nTie technical decisions to measurable outcomes\n\nBonus if you’ve built:\nAgentic workflows\n\nMultiplayer or event-driven systems\n\nEvaluation pipelines for AI systems\n\nSide projects used by real users\n\nHow We EvaluateWe prioritize:\nSystems clarity (state + failure thinking)\n\nExecution speed\n\nOwnership\n\nDepth over pedigree\n\nWhy Join PhygtlWork on a Real Behavioral Problem. You won’t optimize clicks. You’ll design systems that influence real-world human coordination and identity formation.\nThis is AI applied to physical behavior — not interface optimization.\nShip Systems That MatterYour work will tie directly to:\nIRL Quest Completion Rate\n\nD30 Retention\n\nYou won’t build experiments that disappear. You’ll ship components used by live campus communities.\nLearn From Operators Who’ve Built at ScaleYou’ll work with the foundering team, engineers and researchers from:\n\nFounder DNA\n\nRoblox (LLM + search systems)\n\nNiantic (AR + real-world coordination)\n\nStanford / Berkeley / MIT / CMU\n\nExpect depth, not hand-holding.Operate in a High-Bar, Low-Bureaucracy Environment\nWe value:\nMeritocracy over pedigree\n\nShipped systems over slide decks\n\nClear thinking over buzzwords\n\nOwnership comes early. 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