Founding Engineer

About Nia and Nozomio

Nozomio is applied product and research lab. Our flagship product Nia is a context augmentation layer for AI agents, primarily coding agents. It indexes entire codebases, documentation, and external sources so agents always have the right context instead of guessing. Nia plugs in as an MCP server into tools like Cursor, Cline, and other coding agents, giving them a persistent, searchable, up-to-date knowledge base.

Today, agents are very good at generating code but still bad at knowing which repo, package, or doc to look at. Context, not generation, is the bottleneck. Nia exists to solve that bottleneck so agents reach near superhuman code intelligence.

Nozomio is backed by Y Combinator and recently raised a 6.2M seed round from CRV, BoxGroup, LocalGlobe, YC, 20VC, and angels such as Paul Graham, Thomas Wolf, Gustav Söderström, and Gokul Rajaram.

We are building a very small, very strong team in San Francisco. The goal is to hire a small number of exceptional people before IPO, not scale to thousands.

You might be a fit if...

• You've built a great product.
• You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
• You have a propensity for creative ideas and have a knack for making powerful tools without compromising their ease-of-use.
• Ready to bet your life to make generational wealth
• Cracked engineer that has had founder experience

Why Nozomio

I work on-site in San Francisco, grinding 10-12 hours per day.

This is not a 9-5. I'm here to build generational software, and that requires dedication, grit, and a willingness to go all-in.

Links

• Product and docs
  • Nia homepage: trynia.ai
  • Docs: docs.trynia.ai
  • Nia is SOTA on code hallucination benchmark
• Company and story
  • Seed round announcement on Nozomio blog ($6.2M)
  • Business Insider profile on Arlan (founder)

1. Apply
2. Let’s have a chat and vibe
3. Show me proof of your work
4. Work with me in-person for couple days
5. Get the job
6. Build generational company