Motivate Venture Capital

About Velvet

Velvet is an AI-first data platform. We help engineers warehouse and leverage their LLM logs to analyze, optimize, and fine-tune their AI features.

We have funding from institutional VCs and are seeking full-time contributors. We’re open to full-time employees, or contractors. See below for more requirements.

About this role

As a founding engineer, you’ll work closely with the founders to meet weekly goals.

The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who is comfortable navigating a modern tech stack. Our system is built on Next.js (Vercel), Typescript, Node/Deno, Postgres (Supabase), and LLMs (like OpenAI).

Preference for people based in NYC / EST, but we’re a remote-first team.

Work responsibilities

• Ship new features weekly
• Maintain and improve system architecture
• Collaborate on strategy and planning

Our values

• Communicate clearly. We’re transparent, concise, and deliberate.
• Take ownership. We take responsibility and complete our work.
• Create value. We work for our customers and ship high-quality features.

What we offer

• Remote, asynchronous, calm work environment.
• Autonomy over your work. We trust you to make the right decisions for the company.
• Fair compensation. Tell us what you need to do good work.

The team

Emma and Chris are the founders of Velvet. Emma is a second-time founder and has worked on product teams at Fitbit, theSkimm, and Chicago Ventures. Chris is a software engineer with experience at Pebble, MongoDB, and as the CTO at a variety of high-growth startups.

We hire experience engineers as employees or contractors.

Criteria

You’re a good fit for this role if you:

• Can work M-F between 9-7 ET (NYC)
• Have a consistent 10-40 hours availability per week
• Are comfortable with the Typescript / Next, and have shipped AI / ML features

To apply

As a first step, fill out the application here.

Please submit thoughtful answers to the questions - the written application is an important part of the interview process. No need for a formal cover letter or resume.