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Harbor Behavioral Health; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Early-stage equity

Medical, dental and vision

Flexible PTO

Hardware allowance

Relocation to SF

Job summary

Harbor is seeking exceptional contributors to help build a platform that insures AI-driven decisions across industries. We value founders’ mindset, fast execution, and accountability, with a bias toward shipping real results for customers.

The team operates in a dynamic, cross-disciplinary space touching engineering, insurance, security, and regulatory domains. We prize people who can define, own, and deliver meaningful features in the first six months, even without a fixed job title.

Job description

About Harbor

Harbor is insurance for the agentic economy. Banks, insurers, hospitals and law firms are handing real decisions to AI agents: approving loans, pricing policies, moving money, advising customers, thousands of times a day. When one gets it wrong, nobody knows who is liable, and insurers are excluding AI from existing policies because there is no claims history to price it.

We fix that. Our platform finds every agent a company runs, measures its operational, security and regulatory risk against a framework mapped to NIST AI RMF, SR 26-2 and the EU AI Act, and blocks the decisions that break the company's rules before they go through. Then we insure the risk that remains, with our own money behind the answer.

We emerged from stealth in October 2026 with $10M in seed funding from Base10 Partners, Abstract and 8VC. Our four co-founders met at Stanford, and the team includes former founders, IMO and IOI medalists, professional athletes and competitive programming champions. We are headquartered in San Francisco with a team across the United States and Europe.

What we share is a way of working. Everyone here thinks like a founder, owns outcomes rather than tasks, and moves fast because our customers cannot wait. And we are good people to each other. We would rather pass on a brilliant hire than lose that.

About the role

Don't see your role? Tell us what you would build at Harbor and why it matters.

Harbor is a small team working on a problem that touches engineering, insurance, security, research, regulation and law. We cannot post for everything we need, and some of the best people we will hire do not have a job title yet. If you are exceptional at something and you can see where it fits in a company that insures AI agents, we want to hear from you.

What a strong application looks like

• You know what Harbor does and you have an opinion about what it is missing.

• You describe a concrete thing you would build, run or own in your first six months, and what it would change for our customers.

• You can show you have done something at that level before: a company you started, research you published, a function you built from zero, a record that is hard to argue with.

Who has applied this way at other companies

Actuaries who became product leads. Security researchers who became the first hire of a red team. Lawyers who built compliance products. Ex-regulators. Designers. Writers. The role is yours to define.

How we work

• Founder mentality. Everyone owns a piece of the company, not a job description. If something is broken and nobody owns it, you own it.

• Ownership over outcomes. You decide, you ship, you answer for the result. There are no layers between you and the people whose agents we insure.

• High pace. We are growing fast and we like it that way. We make decisions in days, ship in weeks, and fix what we got wrong just as quickly.

• Good hearts. We are direct and demanding, and we are kind. We help each other win and we tell each other the truth.

• We write things down. Decisions, post-mortems and specs live in documents, not in meetings.

• We hold ourselves to the standard we sell. Our own agents run on Harbor.

• In person in San Francisco. We think the first years of a company are built in the same room.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity.

• Medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents.

• Flexible paid time off, with a real expectation that you take it.

• Hardware of your choice and a budget for anything that makes you faster.

• Relocation support to San Francisco.

Harbor is an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of what you can do, and we welcome applicants of every background, nationality and path into the industry. If you need an accommodation during the process, tell us and we will arrange it.