Founding Engineer

About the role: Most job posts are designed to collect as many applications as possible. This is not one of them. At Simplify, we work directly with startup founders to help them hire for high-priority roles. We're partnering with the team at Absurd (YC F25) to hire founding engineers.

One-liner: Building an agent lab for creative production using frontier models Stage: YC F25, <10 employees, HQ in SF.Absurd is building an agent lab for creative video production. They've worked with companies like Kalshi, Whop, Brex, and Replit to produce high-quality video ads at low-cost. Today, high-end ads can cost $50K+ and require full creative teams. Absurd is building the system to make this fast, scalable, and repeatable. What you'll work onDesign and build LLM agent systems with tool-calling and orchestration Develop Python-based backend systems for AI workflows Optimize model quality, latency, cost, and reliability Build internal tooling for debugging and improving agent performance Ship full-stack features supporting collaborative creative tools Work directly with founders and clients to deliver production systems Own problems end-to-end in a fast-moving startup environment What they're looking for