Senior people. Senior work. Calmly done.
We're a small bench of principal engineers and domain leads building the substrate civic and enterprise institutions depend on. We don't scale headcount; we scale care.
15+ yrs
Avg. tenure
32h
Core week
0
Junior hand-offs
Four operating principles.
These aren't posters; they decide what we ship and what we decline. If they describe how you already work, we should talk.
Senior or nothing
Every engineer here is the senior person on their work. No hand-offs to less-experienced teams; no offshore black boxes.
Civic by default
We choose engagements where the work matters — hospitals, grids, courts, classrooms. The cycle pays the same; the work pays in different currency.
Calm over clever
We instrument cognitive load like a real metric. We refuse cleverness that costs the operator their attention.
Stewardship, not shipment
We stay with what we build. Quarterly horizon resets, ethics reviews, and a public changelog of what moved.
Roles open right now
Don't see your title? Reach out anyway — we'd rather meet a remarkable engineer than fill a job description.
No open roles right now — check back soon!
Four steps. No theatre.
Hiring is the most important system we run. We treat your time like a partner's.
01
A real conversation
A 60-minute call with a principal engineer. No screens, no live coding. We talk about the work you're proudest of and the work you're least proud of.
02
A take-home, properly paid
A small, scoped problem you'd actually meet on the job — not a brain-teaser. We pay for your time, regardless of outcome.
03
A working day
You spend a day with the team — paired, in-context, on real work-in-progress. Both sides decide whether this is the place.
04
A clean offer
Single page. Plain numbers. Equity, comp, and stewardship terms — written so a partner could read them.
Compensation that respects the seniority we ask for.
Top-decile compensation
Cash + equity that respects fifteen-year benchmarks.
32-hour core week
Four focused days. The fifth for research, partners, or rest.
Annual fleet visits
On-site time with our partner operators — calls don't substitute.
Open-publication budget
We pay for your conference talks, papers, and writing time.
Six-week sabbatical at year five
Fully funded, no questions asked. Patience compounds.
Top-tier health & wellbeing cover
For you and your immediate household, in every region we operate.
Don't see the role?
We'd rather meet a remarkable engineer than fill a job description. If you've been quietly building serious systems and want a team that takes that as the baseline — write to us.
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