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title: 'Member of Technical Staff at humans&'
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# Member of Technical Staff at humans&

- **Company:** humans&
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humans-and/3daf12ad-471f-43ba-b940-8552e9ad61aa

## Job description

Member of Technical Staff humans& is a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. We are looking for researchers and engineers who have done exceptional work at the frontier of modern AI. If this is you, we'd love to hear from you.

## About humans&

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: humans& is a human-centric frontier AI lab building models and products designed to strengthen relationships, trust, and collaboration within organizations and communities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Eric Zelikman (Co-founder & CEO), Andi Peng (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence (frontier AI research, foundational models, multi-agent systems)
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise organizations and communities), with a human-centric product focus
- **Mission or purpose**: To reimagine AI centered around people and their relationships with each other, serving as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities.

## Products & Services
Their primary product offering is not yet publicly launched. Based on their stated mission and research focus, they are developing:
- **Human-Centric AI Model**: A frontier AI model trained with innovations in long-horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning, memory, and user understanding, intended to function as collaborative intelligence for organizations.
- **Tightly Integrated Science & Product**: A product development paradigm that couples novel model training (reasoning, behavioral training, agents, alignment) directly with user-facing applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.5–5B (latest valuation, January 2026) [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/humans-/)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $480M (Seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SV Angel & co-founder Georges Harik (lead), NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, GV (Google Ventures), Emerson Collective, Forerunner, S32, DCVC, Human Capital, Liquid 2, Felicis, CRV, and many others [humansand.ai](https://humansand.ai/).
- **Growth Signals**: Achieved unicorn status at launch with a $480M seed round; founding team composed of leaders from xAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Reflection, AI2, Stanford, and MIT; strong investor syndicate including major AI players and prominent individuals.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding Team Pedigree**: Founders and early team have shipped models and products used by billions and led seminal work in reasoning, behavioral training, agents, and alignment at the world’s top AI labs.
- **Mission & Thesis**: Uniquely positions AI as a tool for human connection and organizational cohesion, contrasting with purely automation-focused AI labs.
- **Deep Investor & Ecosystem Support**: Backed by NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Google Ventures, and a roster of top-tier venture firms, providing capital, compute access, and strategic partnerships.
- **Open Science Commitment**: Plans to contribute back to open source and academic research, which can attract top talent and build community trust.

## Strategic Focus
- **Human-centric AI**: Developing AI that deepens understanding, trust, and collaboration among people, rather than replacing them.
- **Tight Science-Product Integration**: Simultaneously advancing long-horizon reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, memory, and user understanding, all within a single product feedback loop.
- **Talent & Research Gravity**: Building a world-class research and engineering team by attracting the best talent from frontier labs and academia.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Opportunity to work on a novel AI paradigm focused on human connection, not just raw capability.
- **Exceptional Team**: Collaborate with a founding group that includes world-renowned researchers and engineers from labs like xAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta.
- **Strong Backing & Resources**: Well-capitalized ($480M seed) with access to NVIDIA’s compute and strategic guidance from top investors.
- **Open Research Ethos**: The lab intends to contribute to open source and academic research, offering the chance to publish and share work.
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in Redwood City, CA with a presence in Israel. The team is small (~13 core employees) with rapid growth (+7.7% monthly headcount growth). Technical roles dominate the team (~25% of headcount).
- **Policy**: Not publicly specified (likely in-office/hybrid given the early-stage, research-intensive nature; HQ is in Redwood City).

## Sources
1. [humansand.ai - Official Website](https://humansand.ai/)
2. [humansand.ai - Careers Page](https://humansand.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - humans& Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/humansand)
4. [Dealroom - humans& Unicorn Profile](https://dealroom.co/companies/humans-/)

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