https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs/smcxRnM-founding-engineer Y Combinator About What Happens at YC?ApplyYC Interview GuideFAQPeopleYC Blog Companies Startup DirectoryTop Companies* Revenue* ValuationFounder Directory Launch YC Startup Jobs All Jobs* Engineering* Operations* Marketing* SalesPioneer Internship Program 2024Startup Job GuideCareer CoachingYC Startup Jobs Blog Find a Co-Founder Library SAFE Resources Startup SchoolNewsletterFor InvestorsHacker NewsBookface Open main menu Apply for S2024 batch.Apply [c1ee308d04] Continue The easiest way to code with any LLM Founding Engineer $130K - $170K / 1.00% - 2.00% Location San Francisco, CA, US Job Type Full-time Experience Any (new grads ok) Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role > Ty Dunn Ty Dunn Founder About the role You will be shaping a power tool loved by thousands--and in the future by millions--of developers. You will not only be inventing the most advanced techniques for automating software development but also opening the gates for every developer to individually push boundaries. You will take the lead on multiple projects with large enough scope to become their own entire products, not only having opinions, but making decisions and shipping entirely from your own judgement. You will own these projects from ideation to design to experimentation to shipping to documenting to supporting the community as they use and build upon them. You have knowledge of frontend, backend, and machine learning, but this fact should hardly be relevant--you are ideally a sponge who would figure this out on the job had you not already soaked it up from previous jobs or side projects. You should be slightly irreverent toward programming best practices. You will write beautiful code while also prioritizing moving features to the finish line. You do not expect to be programming in isolation. A large part of your job will be interacting with our community, and not in any secondary sense. You can get excited about being ultra-responsive to community members, hosting community events, holding office hours, etc. In summary, you are likely a good fit, if you * have founded or want to found your own startup one day * have experience with frontend, backend, ML technologies * are enthusiastic about AI/LLMs, open-source, developer tools * get excited about supporting users and helping customers * want to work in-person in SF the majority of the time About Continue What we're doing We believe that large language models (LLMs) present a new opportunity to make building software feel like making music. Developers excel when their work feels like strumming a guitar at a campfire, singing along to the radio, or experimenting with beats in GarageBand--not when it's a slog through a swamp of code, docs, and forums. This is why we are creating an open-source toolkit for working with LLMs while coding, which allows anyone to slip into a flow state, to experience the lightness of never getting stuck, to continue. While the interface between developers and LLMs is still in its early days, we strongly believe it will ultimately be public infrastructure. This means we need to allow deep customization, so that developers can easily incorporate LLMs into their existing workflows. It means we need to embrace the dramatically increasing diversity of both open-source and commercial language models, so that any can be used with zero extra effort. And it means we need to build as a community, so that anyone can participate in the creation of Continue. This is why our starting point is an open-source IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains. How we work We set impossible standards and don't let them slip, holding each other accountable in an environment built on trust and kindness. This means deciding on the single most important problem for each of us to focus on and helping each other to make sure it gets solved. Everyone on the team is expected to be a chef. Each of us needs something different to thrive, so we emphasize understanding ourselves and adapting to these unique styles. Though we get tired sometimes, we never stop running because we are in it for the long haul. For now, we work together in-person in San Francisco, so that we can work side-by-side while iterating toward stronger product-market fit, backed by Jesse Robbins at Heavybit and angels like Julien Chaumond (Hugging Face), Lisha Li (Rosebud AI), and Florian Leibert (Mesosphere). 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