Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Together Fund, and Prosus, Emergent is reimagining how software gets built. Our vision is to democratize development, enabling anyone with an idea to become a creator and making software accessible to a billion people worldwide. Our autonomous coding agents turn plain-language ideas into fully functional applications, tested, version-controlled, and deployable in minutes. What once took weeks now happens with a single click. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’re led by repeat entrepreneurs with a proven track record of building successful startups, joined by a world-class team of Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and veterans from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox. Together, we’re building at the frontier of AI and systems engineering, shipping daily and setting new standards for AI-driven development. In just 90 days, we scaled to $15M ARR, making us one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the world, with users across 180+ countries. Join us in shaping the future of software development.
Careers at Emergent Labs
Emergent is reimagining how software gets built. Our vision is to democratize development, enabling anyone with an idea to become a creator — making software accessible to a billion people worldwide.
Headquartered in San Francisco, our autonomous coding agents transform plain-language ideas into fully functional applications that are tested, version-controlled, and deployable in minutes. What once took weeks now happens with a single click. We call it Vibecoding.
In just a few months since launch, we’ve grown to over 3 million users across 180 countries, generating $25M in ARR. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Prosus, and Together Fund, our team includes repeat founders and builders from Google, Dropbox, Amazon, and IIT - united by a mission to shape the future of code.
The Role:-
We’re building AI coding agents that can plan, build, test, and ship real software. Your role is to turn LLM model and system capabilities into measurable, shippable improvements in agent performance. You will own experimentation and shipping decisions - what we try, how we measure better, what goes live, and what gets rolled back.
What You’ll Do :-
- Develop deep intuition for LLM and agent behavior, identifying failure modes and regressions.
- Define and run high-leverage experiments to improve agent quality, reliability, and code outcomes.
- Ship improvements with clear metrics, evaluation gates, staged rollouts, and rollback criteria.
- Define evaluation frameworks and work with engineering teams to measure agent quality at scale.
- Drive initiatives around context engineering, memory systems, and frontier agent capabilities.
- Think like the agent — continuously making it smarter, more reliable, and more useful.
Who You Are :-
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership.
- Strong technical depth paired with sharp product intuition.
- Comfortable working with metrics, experimentation, SQL, and/or Python.
- Able to thrive in ambiguity and move fast with rigor.
- Hands-on and up-to-date with emerging AI research and industry trends