Careers
Superconductor is building the autonomous software organization — a platform where agents don't wait for instructions, but find work everywhere: in customer emails, bug reports, session replays, Slack threads, X posts, etc. Agents that work while you sleep.
We're a team of 7, backed by $7M in funding, and we intend to stay below ~25 humans hopefully forever. That means every hire matters enormously, and we compensate accordingly with highly competitive salary and equity.
We have been building software together for over a decade. We formerly co-founded Gradescope, an AI-powered education grading platform used by millions of students worldwide. Previously, we were AI PhD students at UC Berkeley.
All in all, we are four developers, one designer, and two generalist operators, and we all wear multiple hats every day.
Our Values
- Customer obsession. We see every customer interaction — every support email, every bug report, every piece of feedback — as a chance to earn trust and build something better. Customer communication is our differentiator, not overhead.
- Speed with stability. We move fast, but we do not break things. We know that if something breaks, we're the ones fixing it — sometimes at night. We'd rather invest in getting it right the first time.
- Living in the future. We use Superconductor to build Superconductor. We adopt our own tools before anyone else and push them until they break. If something feels like the old way of building software, we question it.
- Small team, high standards. Every person on the team has outsized impact, outsized ownership, and outsized responsibility.
Working at Superconductor
- Hybrid from our East Bay office: 3 days in our easily BART-accessible office, 2 days from home.
- However, our agents work 24/7, and there's real value in having humans cover the night shift. If you are an exceptional candidate, please apply even if you're not in the Bay Area.
- Compensation: Highly competitive salary and meaningful equity — we're a small team that plans to stay small.
- Benefits: Flexible PTO, parental leave, health insurance, employee-friendly equity terms, and premium equipment.
- And of course, a practically unlimited token budget!
Open Roles
Principal Web Developer (Rails)
The Role
You are the architect, reviewer, and quality guardian for a fleet of AI coding agents. You define the patterns, enforce the standards, and review every meaningful change that ships. You are the last line of defense before code reaches production.
You'll work at the intersection of deep Rails expertise and AI-augmented development, directing agents the way a senior architect directs a team — except your team never sleeps and is as good as you make it.
A realistic goal: you will ship more quality code to production in your first month than you did in all of 2025.
What You'll Do
- Review code produced by AI agents for correctness, maintainability, security, and adherence to our standards
- Define and evolve the application architecture, module boundaries, and system design principles that agents follow
- Write architectural decision records, coding standards, and agent instructions that shape how code gets generated
- See customer feedback flow directly into agent-generated tickets and code — and make sure that code is worthy of the customer who asked for it
- Jump into production when things break — you've been the person on-call before and you know how to debug fast under pressure
You Are
- A VERY senior Rails developer with 10+ years of experience (ideally 15+)
- Someone who loves clean code, small methods, clear naming, single responsibility, etc
- Experienced deploying, operating, and being on call for at least one medium-to-large Rails application in production
- Comfortable with DevOps and debugging production incidents
- Excited (not threatened) by the idea that AI writes the code and you shape the outcome
Bonus Points
- Active contributor to the Rails community (conferences, gems, blog posts, open source)
- Experience with React, Tailwind, Stimulus, Turbo, or Hotwire
- A love of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
Head of Developer Relations
The Role
You will be one of the public faces of Superconductor and the chief evangelist of the "Self-Running Software Organization" — the idea that AI agents should always be working, that software can build itself, and that the world needs a LOT more quality software.
You'll build in public, create content that developers genuinely want to consume, and cultivate a community. You're not a marketer who talks about developers. You're a developer who happens to be a phenomenal communicator.
In your first month, you'll publish your first piece of content that reaches 100K+ developers, 5x our follower count, and launch a recurring series that developers actually subscribe to.
You'll do this by being an authentic, truly useful, and calm voice in the coding agent space.
By the way, you won't be starting from scratch — we have a related newsletter and YouTube channel of 75K and 35K subscribers each.
What You'll Do
- Build in public using Superconductor, documenting workflows, wins, failures, and lessons learned
- Create a consistent stream of high-quality content across X/Twitter, YouTube, blog posts, podcasts, and conference talks
- Develop and evangelize the "Superconductor way" — opinionated frameworks and best practices for building with parallel coding agents
- Grow and engage a developer community around autonomous software development
- Collaborate with the product team to shape onboarding, documentation, and developer experience
You Are
- A credible developer with real engineering experience — you've shipped production software and can hold your own in technical conversations
- An established voice in the developer community with 5,000+ followers on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, or a combination
- A natural storyteller who can translate complex technical concepts into compelling narratives
- Genuinely excited about AI coding agents and the future of software development
- Comfortable building in public, including sharing what doesn't work
Bonus Points
- You've had a relevant role at a quality company
- Experience with AI coding tools and you existing content about it
- You run or co-host a podcast, newsletter, or YouTube channel with a relevant audience
Agent Maestro
The Role
You live and breathe AI agents. You've tried every coding agent harness, and you have strong opinions about what works and what doesn't. You spend your weekends experimenting with agent orchestration frameworks, MCP servers, and multi-agent workflows.
We have less of a clear idea for what this role entails than for our other open roles. Things move so fast that the main attribute we're looking for is raw intelligence, boundless energy, and an extreme eagerness to learn something new every day.
In your first month, you might take Superconductor to #1 on Terminal-Bench. Or you might use our platform to rebuild a major piece of software in days. Or you'll develop and evaluate a novel agent orchestration framework. Or you might build something else we haven't imagined yet — pitch us on it!
What You'll Do
- Build intelligent orchestration that assigns the right type of agent (PM, coder, QA, deployer) to the right task
- Develop self-healing workflows that detect when agents are blocked, diagnose the issue, and either resolve it automatically or escalate to humans
- Experiment relentlessly with new models, agent frameworks, prompting strategies, and tool-use patterns
- Build evaluation and benchmarking systems, and make number go up on them
- Produce high quality, clean, human-reviewable code — and review a lot more code than you write
You Are
- Experienced building multi-agent systems or complex LLM-powered applications in production
- Comfortable with all of Python, TypeScript, Ruby
- A strong systems thinker who can reason about failure modes, edge cases, and graceful degradation
- Self-directed and experimental — you don't wait for a roadmap, you build prototypes and demonstrate what's possible
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience, with at least 1 year deeply focused on AI/LLM applications
Bonus Points
- You've built or contributed to an agent framework, MCP server, or agent evaluation benchmark
- You've shipped a product where AI agents operate autonomously
- Experience with Rails is a plus — our platform is built with it