What if you had a chance to prevent cybercrime and be at the forefront of innovation by bringing AI to the most important industries? That’s what we’re doing over at Layerup — we’re building a cybersecurity suite for LLMs to eliminate bottlenecks to AI adoption across every single industry on the planet.
We’re a seed-stage startup backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley like Founders Inc, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, CapitalX, Founders of Polygon (Sandeep and Jaynti), OrangeDAO, and a few more amazing angels like Shaan Puri.
If you’re applying to this position, you love startups and inventing products**!** You like to move fast, challenge people on their assumptions, have an intrinsic motivation to make things that create a BIG impact, and most importantly you truly resonate with the mission.
Layerup’s mission is to boost innovation in areas that lack it.
This company is built on innovation and impact. It’s in our DNA. We’re not afraid of running experiments and failing — in fact, it’s extremely necessary. If you understand that invention, by definition, comes from experimentation and experiments are prone to failure, then you’ll fit right in.
Today, our goal is to securely bring AI to the world. Tomorrow, we won’t shy away from disrupting ourselves and keep inventing before Moore’s law catches up. Taking big risks while being at the forefront of innovation is in the DNA of this company. We’re not building this company for the next decade — we’re building it for upcoming centuries.
Finally, we’re a team that thinks in terms of impact. As you’re thinking about which company to join, I would recommend looking into the importance and scale of Cybersecurity in our world today. There is a cybercrime every 39 seconds(!). With LLMs, this is bound to increase. Instead of wasting time building another AI search engine or an AI chatbot, we’re solving cybercrime.
We’re primarily hiring in San Francisco.
Layerup will always be an in-person company. Being in-person is not only important for faster iteration and experimentation, but it also fosters a culture of learning by osmosis. If you’re good at what you do and believe in the power of teams working in-person, then let’s chat!
We want Shippers.
Ex-founders, people who have worked at startups in the past, people who walk the walk, have shipped their own personal projects/products to real users, and really anyone who’s made an honest effort to invent something that has a real impact. Above everything, we want people who take end-to-end ownership and make shit happen.
We don’t care about FANNG experience, degrees, your age, or what college you attended. But, we do care deeply about your history-building products that shipped to actual users.
We also deeply care about how you handle pressure — Layerup has an exceptionally fast-paced work environment and we challenge each other. This dynamic offers substantial growth opportunities for the right individual, while potentially creating an overwhelmingly "chaotic" atmosphere for those who aren't suited for it.