Special Projects Lead, Founder's Office at Brainbase Labs (San Francisco, CA)
Brainbase Labs· San Francisco, CA·
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About Brainbase
Brainbase is building the primitives for the next 1B agents. We power internal agents across government, Fortune 500, frontier labs and hyper-growth startups. Enterprises use our configurable primitives such as evals, observability, router, authentication, permissions, sandboxes, harnesses and more to deploy internal agents securely at scale. We support 8+ harness and 50+ models, including sovereign deployments.
Launches Take a look at some of our previous launches to get an idea of what we’re working on:
- Brainbase platform: brainbaselabs.com/brainbase-is-now-ga
- Universal Managed Agents API: brainbaselabs.com/universal-managed-agents
- Universal Agent Protocol (UAP) (open-source): universalagentprotocol.io
About the role
The Founder’s Office takes on the problems that don’t yet belong to a function. As Special Projects Lead you’ll work directly with the founder on projects that cut across GTM, product, operations, recruiting and research — scoping them, running them end to end, and handing them off once they have a permanent owner. This is an early-career role and one of the best generalist seats at the company. You won’t specialize. You’ll own outcomes under ambiguous KPIs, get unusual range and exposure in a short amount of time, and figure out what you’re great at by doing a lot of very different things quickly.
Who we’re looking for People early in their careers who move fast, write clearly, and would rather own an outcome than a job description. A track record of shipping things on your own matters more to us than a specific background.
Logistics Based in San Francisco, with remote and part-time arrangements available for the right person.
Why work at Brainbase Labs
- Culture: Early-stage startup (6–7 people) with founding team backgrounds from Harvard, Verkada, Boeing, Anthropic. Flat structure, high ownership.
- Work policy: In-office at San Francisco HQ (full-time onsite) builtin.com
- Notable perks/engineering culture: Build the core platform from scratch (agent APIs, observability, scaling). Open roles: Founding Engineer, Founding GTM, Founding Marketer. Salary ranges $125K–$250K for engineering; $100K–$160K for GTM roles. Equity likely included.
- Growth opportunity: Join at the ground floor of a Y Combinator-backed company in the fast-moving AI agent space. Direct impact on product, architecture, and company direction.