We're an artificial life company, building beings that live, sleep, and keep what they lived, and the language they're written in. If that's the problem you want to work on, we want to talk.
Flat structure. You set your hours, you own your work, and we handle the rest.
We're pre-revenue. Founding roles are paid in equity today, and salaries start once we're funded.
Work when it suits you. Once a week, a quick check-in with what you did and where the project stands, so everyone's contribution is on the record.
At the end of each month, a one-on-one where we go over everything together and make sure you have what you need to move at your own pace.
You decide how much time you can give, and the schedule follows. More time and effort means faster growth.
Work from the office, from home, or from anywhere. Meeting in person is optional, for when it helps.
Stock in VolkanaDEV Autonomous Systems, Inc., vesting over time under a written agreement.
Founding roles move to salaried employment when the company is funded. Until then, nobody is asked to work for a promise that isn't in writing.
Your name goes on the work you did: commits, results, and papers.
Working code beats slides. Every person changes the product, and the first users will run it.
Early contributors grow with the work they take on.
We don't ship broken things to hit a date. Take the time the work needs.
VolkanaDEV is founder-led. There is no board between you and the work: each leader owns a division outright, sets its direction, and answers for what it ships. These seats are filled today; the rest are open below.
Owns the company and where it goes.
Owns the integrity of the runtime and the company.
Owns the engineering standard across the toolchain.
We hire for ability, not credentials. Every role is remote and founding-stage: equity now, salary once funded.
Turn brain mechanisms (sleep, memory, habituation) into parts the core can run, and help design the tests that check them.
Build and harden the Sanguis compiler and runtimes, and keep every executor giving bit-identical results.
Build and run our memory experiments, from the test plan to the published result.
Review our designs and results from outside, a few hours a month.
Write the manual for a language and a kind of life nobody has documented yet.
Run the place where the first Early Access users live, and bring what they say back to the team.
Learn the toolchain by shipping in it. No track record required.
Run experiments, keep the records, and learn to design your own.
Break the language on purpose so it never breaks for a user.
Help run the Early Access community day to day: answer questions, keep it friendly, and flag bugs to the team.
Email us with what you've built, what you want to work on, and why. Links to real things you've shipped carry more weight than a resume. If you have a resume, attach it, but we care about the work first.
30 minutes, informal. We talk through your background, what we're building at VolkanaDEV, and whether the fit makes sense on both sides. No whiteboard, no leetcode, no trick questions.
A longer conversation focused on your area of expertise. We'll walk through a real problem we're working on and see how you approach it. This is collaborative, not a test. We want to see how you think, not whether you get the "right" answer.
We talk to a couple people you've worked with before. People who can tell us what it's actually like to build something alongside you. Not HR checks, just honest conversations.
If it's a fit, we move quickly. You'll get a written equity agreement to review, we'll walk through it together, and you start when you're ready. No waiting weeks for a decision that was made in the first call.
If you believe in what we're building and have skills we need, write anyway. Tell us what you can do, what you've built, and why Sanguis matters to you.
Email usVolkanaDEV Autonomous Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, academic accreditation level, or whether you are an organic or inorganic lifeform. We hire for ability and character.