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Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$100,000 - $300,000
Type
Full-Time
About Keyframe Labs
Keyframe Labs builds Vulcan, an AI-powered platform that ingests the entire U.S. legal corpus—federal, state, and municipal—and deploys multi-agent systems to reason over it in production. Vulcan serves government agencies in 12 states and private sector clients including DoorDash, Samsara, and major law firms, enabling them to track regulatory changes and automate compliance at scale.
The company is an early-stage YC alum, recently raising at a $150M valuation—the highest in its batch. The team is lean (7 people), highly autonomous, and operates in a flat structure where everyone wears multiple hats. Keyframe Labs is backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and the Dropbox founders, and is live in multiple state and federal agencies.
The platform combines a massive open search database of laws, regulations, and court cases with an agentic coding harness (Claude Code or Codex) running in AWS, enabling customers to generate documents, analyze regulations, and automate workflows with reliability and speed.
About This Role
Founder-type FDE role deploying AI systems into government and enterprise. Heavy travel, high autonomy, and direct customer impact. Charisma, extreme work ethic, and US citizenship required.
Founder-type FDE
role with direct customer impact and high autonomy.
US citizenship
is a hard requirement (FedRAMP compliance).
Heavy travel—up
to 5 days/week to customer sites nationwide.
Job Details
Experience
2+ years
Salary
$100,000 - $300,000
Equity
0.5% - 2%
Visa Sponsorship
US citizenship required (FedRAMP compliance)
Employment Type
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
In office
Work Intensity
9-5
Benefits & Perks
Company Card For Travel And Expenses
Suit Provided For Customer Meetings
Direct Access To Founders And Product Decisions
High Autonomy And Ownership
Equity: 0.5% - 2%
Test
Green Flags
Former YC founder (especially recent batches)
Early engineer at a YC company
CS degree from a top-20 school with hackathon/startup experience
Red Flags
Job-hopping (10+ jobs in 2 years)
Consulting background (McKinsey, Deloitte, etc.)
Cannot commit to 996+ work intensity
Required Candidate Q&A
Question 1
Are you a US citizen? (Required for FedRAMP compliance)
Question 2
Are you able and willing to travel up to 5 days a week to customer sites across the US?
Question 3
Describe a time you owned a customer deployment or technical sales process end-to-end. What was your impact?
Question 4
How do you approach building trust and relationships with senior government or enterprise stakeholders?
Question 5
What is your experience with shipping production code in ambiguous, high-stakes environments?
Question 6
Can you commit to a 996+ work cadence (including daily 8:30am standups, 7 days a week)?
Question 7
Have you ever founded a company or operated as a founder-type in a startup? Briefly describe.
Candidate scorecard
· 10 criteriaUS citizenship (FedRAMP compliance)
2+ years in engineering, technical consulting, or forward-deployed roles — or founder-equivalent experience
Strong Python or TypeScript skills; able to ship production code