Founding Product Engineer

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Naive is building autonomous companies and releasing templates, benchmarks, and a studio for deploying and operating these systems. You will lead features from concept through launch, building a polished interface for managing autonomous agent workloads with Next.js, TypeScript, Python, and FastAPI.

You will translate customer feedback into product decisions, design intuitive interfaces, and drive shipping velocity with a strong emphasis on design and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack engineering and UI/UX ability.
• Exceptional product taste and attention to detail.
• Experience shipping a 0→1 product.
• Real experience building with LLMs and agentic systems.
• Strong written communication and product-marketing instincts.
• High agency—you independently identify and solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Build Naive Studio: interface where users deploy and operate autonomous companies.
• Own features from product concept and UX through engineering, launch and growth.
• Design polished, intuitive interfaces for complex agent systems.
• Create demos, launch content and campaigns for what you ship.
• Turn usage data and customer feedback into product decisions.
• Establish a high bar for design, performance and shipping velocity.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

UI/UX design

Product mindset

LLMs/agentic systems

Written communication

Independent problem solving

Job description

About Naive

Naive is building autonomous companies: agent systems capable of operating real businesses end to end.

We release autonomous company templates and benchmarks, alongside a studio—where users can deploy and operate these systems. Our infrastructure platform, Vetta, powers long-running, high-volume agent workloads.

We’ve raised a $28.5M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 and leading operators.

The Role

Build Naive Studio: the interface where users deploy and operate autonomous companies. You’ll own features from product concept and UX through engineering, launch and growth.

What You’ll Do

• Build full-stack with Next.js, TypeScript, Python and FastAPI
• Design polished, intuitive interfaces for complex agent systems
• Own features from customer research and prototyping through launch
• Create demos, launch content and campaigns for what you ship
• Turn usage data and customer feedback into product decisions
• Establish a high bar for design, performance and shipping velocity

Must-Haves

• Strong full-stack engineering and UI/UX ability
• Exceptional product taste and attention to detail
• Experience shipping a 0→1 product
• Real experience building with LLMs and agentic systems
• Strong written communication and product-marketing instincts
• High agency—you independently identify and solve problems

Nice-to-Haves

• Ex-founder or early startup engineer
• Experience with developer tools or AI-native products
• Familiarity with agent orchestration, MCP or SDK design
• Experience producing demos, launch videos or technical content