Wildcard at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (San Francisco, CA)

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Onsite

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Full-Time

Job description

Our mission is to underwrite superintelligence underwriting-superintelligence.com We red-team, certify, and insure agents - working with AI category leaders like ElevenLabs linkedin.com Loveable lovable.dev/aiuc-1, Harvey harvey.ai UiPath uipath.com/, and Fin. Soon, agents will take on critical work in hospitals, banks and governments. This could create abundance - or go terribly wrong. History teaches us that standards and insurance are capitalism’s best tools for making risk legible and shaping incentives. We’ve built the gold standard for agent security & reliability, AIUC-1 aiuc-1.com/, with 100+ CISOs from the Fortune 1000 aiuc-1.com/consortium. Our team comes from Anthropic anthropic.com, McKinsey mckinsey.com, METR metr.org, Weights & Biases wandb.ai/, Perplexity perplexity.ai/, Thiel Fellowship thielfellowship.org/, etc. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic, and Nat Friedman. Read more here open.spotify.com/0FJEDsKalxJ1j4PjO7F4Cn here whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com/aiuc, and here forrealai.substack.com

Strong Back - High standards, keep our promises, work hard

Fast Feet - Experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace

Eyes Up - ‘Feel the AGI’ across our strategy, teams and day-to-day work

Open Heart - Say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions

Not sure you fit into a neat box like “engineer” or “designer,” but you think you’d crush it here? This wildcard application is for you.

One-liner: AIUC builds the confidence infrastructure—standards, audits, and insurance—to certify and insure AI agents, enabling enterprise adoption.
Entity Type: Private (Seed stage)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: Not publicly available (likely 2024 based on funding timeline)
Founders: Rune Kvist (CEO), Rajiv Dattani, Brandon Kent Wang (CTO)

Primary industry/industries: AI risk & insurance, AI standards & certification, enterprise AI trust infrastructure
Target customers: AI agent companies (B2B) and their enterprise customers (B2B, Enterprise)
Mission or purpose statement: "Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents" and "Underwrite superintelligence" aiuc.com

AIUC-1 Standard: The first comprehensive standard for AI agent safety, covering data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal risks. Companies certify against this standard to earn enterprise confidence. aiuc.com/product
Insurance for AI Agents: Backed by the world’s most trusted insurers, covering AI-specific risks up to $50M in losses. Protects AI companies’ enterprise customers financially if an AI agent fails. aiuc.com/product
Gap Analysis & Technical Testing: A risk assessment service providing a full overview of an AI agent’s safety, security, and reliability posture, with eval test results available within 24 hours. aiuc.com/product
Audit Support: Supports companies through the AIUC-1 certification journey to meet the gold standard. aiuc.com/product

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed
Key Metric: Total Funding: $15M (Seed round)
Notable Investors/Partners: Seed round led by Nat Friedman. Investors include Emergence, Terrain, an Anthropic co-founder, and former Chief Information Security Officers at Google Cloud and MongoDB. Customers/partners include Ada (AI customer service leader) and Intercom. aiuc.com/team
Growth Signals: Headcount grew 700% YoY (from ~2 to 16 employees). Monthly growth of 14.3%. Published research paper "Underwriting Superintelligence." Has active job postings for Founding Recruiter and Member of Technical Staff. LinkedIn

First-mover in AI agent insurance: Building a new category—"confidence infrastructure"—that combines certification and insurance specifically for AI agents.
Deep domain expertise: Founders and team have experience at Anthropic, McKinsey insurance, METR, and Center for AI Safety, bringing together AI risk and insurance knowledge. aiuc.com/team
Proprietary standard (AIUC-1): A comprehensive, technically rigorous standard that goes far beyond typical enterprise requirements (e.g., ISO 42001), covering jailbreaks, prompt injections, data leakage, and hallucinations.
Backed by top-tier insurers: Insurance policies are backed by "the world’s most trusted insurers," unlocked by their underwriting. aiuc.com/product
Strong enterprise traction: Already working with major players like Ada (which enabled a top social media platform) and Intercom, turning security from a blocker into a differentiator. aiuc.com/product

Scale the standard: Grow AIUC-1 as the de facto industry standard for AI agent certification.
Expand insurance coverage: Increase policy limits and coverage scope as AI agents become more capable and deployed in higher-stakes applications.
Accelerate enterprise adoption: Remove the "procurement blocker" for AI agents by providing the confidence infrastructure enterprises need.
Talent acquisition: Currently