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# Open Application at Dryft

- **Company:** Dryft
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dryft/aa0aaa74-2681-4c2c-a714-c1ebffacd48a

## Job description

-- Can't find the right fit but still want to work with us? Apply here. --

Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations

We’re a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes. Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads.

We’re backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies.

Today, we’re already saving customers millions. But this is only the beginning. ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Dryft is powering the next.

## About Dryft

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dryft builds artificial intelligence that mimics, optimizes, and automates complex human decisions in manufacturing operations, essentially building the next generation of ERP systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, $5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States (with presence in Germany and Greece)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Anna-Julia Storch (CEO) and Leonie Freisinger (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI for manufacturing operations; industrial software.
- **Target customers**: B2B – manufacturing companies (SMB to enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We combine agent-based intelligence with mathematical optimization to build what comes after ERPs: systems that think, act, and adapt autonomously across manufacturing operations."

## Products & Services
- **Dryft AI Platform**: An AI-powered system that uses agents and mathematical optimization to autonomously handle complex manufacturing decisions such as supplier follow-ups, inventory management, safety stock adjustments, and late-item alerts. It integrates with existing data (inventory, orders) and acts as an autonomous co-pilot for manufacturing operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $5.0M (Seed round, November 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by General Catalyst; investors include Ali Partovi (founder, Neo; co-founder Code.org), Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (Managing Director, General Catalyst), Jeff Wilke (former CEO Amazon Consumer), Steve Blank, Claire Hughes Johnson, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew from ~1 to 12 in a year (+1,100% YoY).
  - Active job postings for 4 open positions (Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Full-Stack Engineering Intern, Founding Full-Stack Engineer, Founding Design Engineer).
  - Monthly website visits ~9,475 (73% US, 27% Germany).
  - Team members span three countries and backgrounds from Stanford, MIT, Porsche, and manufacturing companies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI + Mathematical Optimization**: Dryft uniquely combines agent-based AI with traditional optimization (operations research), creating a hybrid that can both learn and mathematically guarantee good decisions.
- **Deep Manufacturing Domain Expertise**: Founders and team have hands-on experience in manufacturing (Leonie worked on Porsche Taycan predictive controllers; Anna-Julia worked with Siemens' AI Lab on the “factory of the future”).
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Both founders are technical (MS in Data Science from Stanford) and have spent thousands of hours with manufacturers co-developing the product.
- **Backed by Top-Tier Investors**: General Catalyst and a roster of prominent individuals (Ali Partovi, Jeff Wilke) signal strong confidence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Replace legacy ERPs** with autonomous, AI-native systems for manufacturing.
- **Hire a small, elite technical team** to build and deploy the first product version.
- **Scale from manufacturing operations** to broader industrial decision-making.
- **International presence**: Already has team members in Germany and Greece, suggesting a pan-European talent strategy.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "All technical team" with a sense of urgency and taste for great products. Values include building everything from robots, PCBs, and race cars to software.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Roles are listed as “San Francisco” – likely onsite but open to relocation support.
- **Perks**: "We support Visa & Relocation" – actively hiring international talent.
- **Engineering Culture**: Early‑stage startup (founded 2024) with opportunity to shape the product and architecture. Team includes people from physical intelligence, Stanford, MIT, and manufacturing backgrounds.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Joining at “Day 0” – chance to be a founding engineer in a well-funded startup tackling a 50‑year‑old industry problem.

## Sources
1. [dryft.ai](https://dryft.ai/)
2. [dryft.ai/careers](https://dryft.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Dryft](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dryft-hq)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/dryft](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dryft)

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- [Full-Stack Engineering Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineering-intern-dryft-san-francisco-tws8ybapg7cc) — San Francisco, CA
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- [Founding Full-Stack Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-full-stack-engineer-dryft-san-francisco-t2xbt360hmpa) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-forward-deployed-engineer-dryft-san-francisco-3xh2gwmxxwn0) — San Francisco, CA
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