Founding Engineer

About Nia and Nozomio

Nozomio is applied product and research lab. Our flagship product Nia is an API layer that provides agents with up-to-date, continuously monitored context from libraries, research papers, and technical documentation—saving you hours of manual ingestion. Today, agents are very good at generating code but still bad at knowing which repo, package, or doc to look at. Context, not generation, is the bottleneck. Nia exists to solve that bottleneck so agents reach near superhuman code intelligence.

Nozomio is backed by Y Combinator and recently raised a 6.2M seed round from CRV, BoxGroup, LocalGlobe, YC, 20VC, and angels such as Paul Graham, Thomas Wolf, Gustav Söderström, and Gokul Rajaram.

We are building a very small, very strong team in San Francisco. The goal is to hire a small number of exceptional people before IPO, not scale to thousands.

You will likely get a job if...

• Can spend $1,000 on Cursor or Claude Code in 1–2 days (my record is $3,000 for production-ready features).
• Have a green GitHub (no bs contributions).
• Ex-founder or founding engineer at a fast-scaling startup.
• Ready to bet your life on building generational wealth.
• You have broken so many things in your life that you can now fix things on the fly.

Why Nozomio

I work on-site in San Francisco, grinding 10-12 hours per day.

This is not a 9-5. I'm here to build generational software, and that requires dedication, grit, and a willingness to go all-in.

Links

• Product and docs
  • Nia homepage: trynia.ai
  • Docs: docs.trynia.ai
  • Nia is SOTA on code hallucination benchmark
• Company and story
  • Seed round announcement on Nozomio blog ($6.2M)
  • Business Insider profile on Arlan (founder)

Interview Process

1. Apply
2. Let’s have a chat and vibe
3. Show me proof of your work
4. Work with me in-person for couple days
5. Get the job
6. Build generational company