VOYGR (YC W26) | Founding Product Engineer
Location: San Francisco (ONSITE)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: $150K–$200K + 0.5%–2.0% equity
About VOYGR
I'm Yarik, cofounder and CTO. Before this, I spent 20 years in tech with 10+ years running infra, ML, and search teams at Google, Meta, and Apple.
We love maps and build location/business APIs for AI apps and agents. If ChatGPT tells you a restaurant is open and it actually closed in March, that's the problem we fix. We check whether a business still exists, whether its hours and details are right, and enrich it with what's being written about it on the web (news, articles, events). Customers get all of it through one API, and we solve it for them with our models—which use all available sources—and AI voice agents that can confirm the information.
The Role
You'd be one of the first engineers. Some weeks that's search and ranking, some weeks it's data pipelines or evals, some weeks it's the API or something a customer asked for yesterday. You'll have a big say in what gets built, not just how.
Tech Stack:
- Python, FastAPI
- Postgres/PostGIS, DynamoDB, Redis
- AWS (EKS)
- Our own ML models plus LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic)
Requirements
- 2+ years shipping production systems (or fewer if your background is unusual and you can show what you've built).
- Real experience with at least one of: search/IR, large-scale data processing, ML systems, or API design.
- You already use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar as part of your workflow.
- Geo/POI data experience is a plus, but not required.
Important Note
Fair warning: we are a small team, fast-paced, and there could be nights and weekends. If that's not where you are in life right now, totally fine, this just isn't a good fit.
Hiring Process
- A short note on why you.
- A 30-minute call with me and then Vlad.
- A technical deep dive.
- A paid trial project.
How to Apply
- Apply via Work at a Startup
- Email me directly at: yarik@voygr.tech