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title: 'Founding Engineer at Ghost'
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last_seen: '2026-09-11'
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# Founding Engineer at Ghost

- **Company:** Ghost
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ghost/a286999a-de8d-486f-9a06-a0de5d947bfd

## Job description

Ghost is an applied AI company building personal agents We're well-funded and assembling an aggressively young, talented team to work on the hardest unsolved problems in agentic systems and product.

Existing team members have left the world's leading quant shops and universities and turned down millions of dollars of cash/equity to build real products for billions of humans at Ghost.

Apply for the founding eng role if you:

- Use agents to write >90% of your code
- Have done exceptional things in the past
- Have the endurance to prompt 12hrs+ in a day

## About Ghost

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ghost builds personal AI factories—dedicated hardware and software for autonomous AI agents that you own and control.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, $10.5M raised)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Zain Javaid

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence, consumer hardware, agentic software
- **Target customers**: B2C (individuals who want a personal AI agent) and developers building agent-based systems
- **Mission**: Enable personal intelligence that lives on your own infrastructure, not in the cloud—giving users full ownership and control over their data and AI.

## Products & Services
- **Ghost Personal AI Agent (Software)**: An AI agent that learns from all your emails, files, conversations, and journals; can manage finances, make decisions, run companies, and control smart home devices.
- **Ghost Dedicated Hardware**: Ambient devices (e.g., home assistants, context capture devices) designed for always-on, autonomous AI operation—unlike phones or laptops that are human-driven.
- **Ghost Ecosystem**: A new computing paradigm where agents work 24/7 without waiting for app launches, handling tasks proactively.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $10.5M (Seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z, Abstract, Audacious, SV Angel, Nova, Cory Levy, Max Mullen
- **Growth Signals**: Extremely small team (~5 employees) with high talent density; hiring founding engineer; ambitious vision for a new computing primitive; founders and team come from top quant shops and universities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ownership & Privacy**: Unlike cloud-based AI, Ghost’s agents run on hardware you own, ensuring data never leaves your control.
- **Purpose-built Hardware**: Designing devices specifically for autonomous, ambient AI operation rather than repurposing smartphones or laptops.
- **Small, Intense Team**: Highly selective, talent-dense team working on the hardest unsolved problems in agentic systems.

## Strategic Focus
- Build the next generation of consumer AI hardware and operating system for personal intelligence.
- Develop context capture devices (transcription, video, etc.) and fully local home assistants.
- Create an ecosystem where agents are always accessible and can act autonomously over days and weeks.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Aggressively young, talented team” that values endurance and deep technical work. Team members have turned down millions in cash/equity from top firms to build real products.
- **Work Environment**: San Francisco-based; likely in-office given the hardware focus. Job posting for founding engineer is in SF.
- **Perks & Engineering**: Well-funded seed stage with competitive salary ($130k–$220k for founding engineer). Engineers are expected to use AI agents to write >90% of their code. Opportunity to define a new computing primitive from the ground up.

## Sources
1. [tryghost.ai](https://tryghost.ai/)
2. [standout.work (company page)](https://standout.work/companies/f2f62752-19ea-49dd-acaf-977daf51c5af)
3. [standout.work (job posting)](https://standout.work/jobs/002635f8-047c-4bbf-9687-862570243df1)
4. [zainjavaid.com](https://zainjavaid.com/)
5. [github.com/GhostAILabs](https://github.com/GhostAILabs)

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