Jarmin, a San Francisco startup building autonomous machine learning engineer employees, has opened seven new roles across engineering, product, and sales. Founded in 2025 and backed by $500,000 in Seed funding from Y Combinator's F25 batch, the three-person company is expanding its headcount with every open position offering compensation between $200,000 and $300,000 per year.
Jarmin develops AI software designed to function as a 24/7 technical team member. Users communicate with the system in natural language to assign individual machine learning tasks or delegate entire technical initiatives. The platform automates complex workflows across data science, AI research, and infrastructure scaling.
Leadership Team Background
The founding team combines experience across AI research labs, big tech engineering, and enterprise systems:
- CEO Chalmers Brown previously worked as a Staff Engineer at Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, a software engineer at JPMorganChase, a senior solutions engineer at Unit21, and co-founded Due.
- CTO Zack Leman was also a Staff Engineer at Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, following engineering work at Amazon Web Services and healthcare startups.
- Head of ML Shirsendu Halder conducted GenAI research at Apple, research at Lockheed Martin, and earned a best paper award at CVPR while completing a graduate research degree in robotics and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Hiring Focus and Open Positions
Jarmin's hiring plan centers on building core agent capabilities and evaluation frameworks. In San Francisco, the startup is recruiting a senior Member of Technical Staff alongside specialized engineers, including a Member of Technical Staff (Models) and a Member of Technical Staff (Agents).
To support system reliability and architecture, the company is filling roles for a Member of Technical Staff (Agent Infrastructure) and a Member of Technical Staff (Evals). On the product and go-to-market side, Jarmin is hiring a senior Member of Technical Staff (Product) in San Francisco, as well as a US-based remote or in-person Founding Sales - Account Executive.
| Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founding Sales - Account Executive | San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) | Remote | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Models) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Evals) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Agents) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Agent Infrastructure) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
| Member of Technical Staff (Product) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 |
