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# Software Engineer – Gap Year at Netic

- **Company:** Netic
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/netic/e645059a-a2e8-4cfd-84e8-085d92da6e62

## Job description

Netic is the AI revenue engine for essential services who are the backbone of the American economy. With $43M in funding from Founders Fund, Greylock, Hanabi, and Dylan Field who led our Series B, we helped our customers book hundreds of thousands of jobs across services industries in North America. There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on Netic.

You’ll join our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible. Netic is the AI revenue engine for essential services who are the backbone of the American economy. With $43M in funding from Founders Fund, Greylock, Hanabi, and Dylan Field who led our Series B, we helped our customers book hundreds of thousands of jobs across services industries in North America. There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on Netic. You’ll join our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible. Netic’s Gap Year Software Engineers join our product team for a year to build the features that put AI in the hands of real businesses. This role is for college students who want to take a year off school to work full-time as an engineer, combining technical excellence with customer empathy to craft products that make complex AI feel simple and deliver immediate value to essential service industries. Gap Year engineers are full-time employees, not interns. You’ll earn a full salary and equity, have a dedicated mentor, and we’ll cover room and board in an apartment next to our office in San Francisco or New York. The program is modeled on our first Gap Year engineer, who took a year off from Harvard to own products used by real customers, work on-site with them, and meet our board and investors before returning to finish his degree. If you want to start a company someday, this is the year to learn how. You’ll see up close how a fast-growing startup wins customers, ships product, makes hard decisions, and builds a team. You’ll also leave with relationships with the investors, founders, operators, and teammates who can advise you, back you, or co-found with you when it’s your turn. We need to hire multiple Gap Year engineers who are currently enrolled undergraduates at a US university and can take at least a year off school to work with us full-time. We hire on a rolling basis, and start dates are flexible. What You’ll Do:

- Build agentic products: Design, code, and ship full-stack features for Netic’s AI platform.
- Co‑create with customers: Work closely with our customers, including on-site, to understand workflows, gather feedback, and turn pain points into features that stick.
- Own end‑to‑end delivery: Drive projects from spec to production, handling data models, APIs, front‑end polish, and post‑launch iteration.
- Ensure quality: Build, test, and monitor features in production to ensure reliability and performance.
- Learn how a company is built: Sit in on sales calls and leadership meetings to see how a fast-growing startup wins customers, makes decisions, and builds a team.
- Build your founder network: Get to know our board, investors, and leaders across tech—people who can advise you, back you, or build with you when you start your own company.

What You’ll Bring:

- Proven builder: You’ve shipped real projects end-to-end, whether through school, internships, hackathons, or on your own.
- Full‑stack foundations: Comfortable with React, TypeScript, and Python, or ready to pick them up fast.
- AI experience (nice‑to‑have): Hands‑on with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns—or hunger to learn fast.
- Customer empathy: You care about the people who use what you build and want to work with them directly.
- Founder‑level ambition: You want to start a company one day and want to learn how great companies are built first.
- Excellent communicator: Able to explain technical trade‑offs to engineers and product decisions to customers.

Program Details:

- Eligibility: You must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate at a US university and able to arrange at least one full year off from school on your own (for example, through your school’s leave of absence process) before returning to finish your degree.
- Duration: 12 months, full-time, in person in San Francisco or New York.
- Compensation: Full-time base salary and equity.
- Housing: Room and board fully covered, in an apartment next to our office.

What brings us together is our commitment to:

- Live to build
- Run through walls and win
- Obsess over customers in each line of code
- Lose sleep over the "almost perfect"
- Show internal locus of control
- Prioritize finesse: refinement of first principles thinking, execution, and craftsmanship

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

## About Netic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Netic provides an AI-powered revenue engine that autonomously handles customer demand, generates growth, and optimizes every touchpoint for essential service enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI/Software for essential service industries including home services (plumbing, HVAC, roofing, pest control), veterinary, automotive, and consumer health.
- **Target customers**: B2B – large service enterprises in industries often omitted from the AI wave (e.g., plumbing, electrical, veterinary chains, roofing companies).
- **Mission/purpose**: “Help essential service industries grow on autopilot” by bringing production-grade, end-to-end AI workflows to the backbone of the economy.

## Products & Services
- **The AI Revenue Engine**: A multi-channel platform that combines three core engines:
  - **Convert**: AI agents autonomously book jobs across calls, text, web-chat, online widgets, and third-party platforms, following operational rules to handle 100% of demand.
  - **Cultivate**: Proactively identifies upsell opportunities, launches targeted engagement campaigns for memberships or service upgrades, and increases customer lifetime value.
  - **Empower**: Transforms raw data from customer interactions into actionable business intelligence for strategic decision-making.
- **Type**: SaaS platform with AI agents for speech, text, and data processing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $23.0M (Series B round raised in November 2025, led by Founders Fund).
- **Notable Investors & Partners**: Founders Fund, Greylock; angel investors include Mike Volpi (GP, Hanabi Capital), Alexandr Wang (CEO, Scale AI), Dylan Field (CEO, Figma), Elad Gil.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Featured in a WSJ exclusive article (June 2025) on AI transforming home services.
  - Reported $36.31M in revenue generated year-to-date via the platform, with 11,214 jobs autonomously booked and 4,360 jobs won via outbound campaigns.
  - Active hiring across 14 open positions (engineering, product, GTM, design).
  - 3,823 LinkedIn followers and growing presence in essential industries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Production-grade AI for real-world constraints**: Unlike many AI copilots, Netic builds autonomous agents that execute end-to-end workflows across speech, text, and data, handling complex enterprise constraints and edge cases.
- **Focus on underserved essential industries**: Home services, automotive, and consumer health have been largely overlooked by frontier tech, giving Netic a first-mover advantage in a large, fragmented market.
- **Strong investor backing**: Backed by top-tier investors and visionary founders from Scale AI, Figma, and Greylock, providing both capital and strategic network.
- **Proven revenue outcomes**: The platform has already autonomously handled millions in revenue for clients, demonstrating tangible ROI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale across essential industries**: Continue to expand the AI Revenue Engine to new verticals (veterinary, pest control, roofing, consumer health) and deepen penetration in home services.
- **Continue building a world-class team**: Actively hiring for technical roles (machine learning engineers, agent infrastructure, product engineers) and GTM roles (SDRs, growth managers, deployment strategists).
- **Push frontier AI into the real world**: Develop multimodal, real-time AI systems that go beyond copilots to run complete business functions – a focus on “building production-grade AI that executes end-to-end workflows.”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & philosophy**: Netic describes itself as a team of “relentless builders, ex-founders, and immigrants from top CS schools and tech companies who thrive on solving hard problems.” Cultural values include “live to build,” “run through walls and win,” “obsess over customers in each line of code,” and “prioritize finesse.”
- **Work location**: HQ in San Francisco (3661 Buchanan St, Fl 4). Most roles appear to be on-site in SF; no explicit remote/hybrid policy stated in available data.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong bias toward building production-grade, end-to-end AI. Roles like Applied AI Research Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, and Forward Deployed Agent Engineer indicate a tight feedback loop between development and real-world deployment.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI technologies (speech, text, multimodal) that directly impact the “backbone of the economy.” The company is at an early stage (32 employees) with significant recent funding, offering high autonomy and ownership.

## Sources
1. [netic.ai](https://www.netic.ai/)
2. [netic.ai/company](https://www.netic.ai/company)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netic-ai)
4. [Craft.co Company Profile](https://craft.co/netic-ai)
5. [WSJ Article (exclusive, June 2025) – referenced in LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netic-ai)
6. [Crunchbase News – AI Autonomous Agents Top 2025 Trend](https://www.crunchbase.com/news)
7. [Built In – Netic Raises $20M in Funding](https://www.builtin.com)
8. [Global Legal Chronicle – Netic Secures $20M Series A](https://www.globallegalchronicle.com)

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