HumanLayer
Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
Founding Engineer
About the role
You'll be building tools that help engineers everywhere unlock the promise of autonomous AI
We're looking for folks who are excited about:
- Building developer tools and APIs that are a joy to use
- Solving complex distributed systems challenges
- Building deep and broad familiarity with the AI developer tools ecosystem
- Creating secure, scalable enterprise software
- Contributing to open source
Our engineering values include:
- Continuous learning and experimentation
- Open collaboration, documentation and knowledge sharing
- Make it run, make it right, make it fast. Our #1 goal is deliver value for developers. Refactor after patterns emerge
About HumanLayer
HumanLayer is an API and SDK that lets AI agents contact humans for feedback, input, and approvals. Our customers use HumanLayer as a building block in AI agents that safely and reliably do risky things like manage cloud infrastructure and database migrations.
Our mission is to enable the safe deployment of AI systems by making human oversight a seamless part of any AI workflow. We're looking for passionate builders who want to shape the future of human-AI collaboration.
Our Hacker News Launch reached over 350 points and almost 200 comments, and TechCrunch Highlighted HumanLayer as a top 4 Enterprise AI startup in the F24 batch
One day in the not-too-distant future, people look back and point to an AI product or experience and say "that was the first thing that kind of felt like AGI". We believe a tool like HumanLayer will play a significant role in making that experience happen.
Here's what a few YC Founders had to say after trying HumanLayer:
Ever since I got hands-on with HumanLayer, I’m asking my whole team to think more about Agentic AI workflows - I used to think agents were not worth the effort to get them to production-grade reliability, but now I'm stoked on what is possible when you bring humans into the loop
Vaibhav Gupta, Founder @ Boundary (YC W23)
Hot take: If you're serious about AI you don't want someone making the "hard AI parts go away"
You want someone making the NON CORE PARTS go away so ALL YOU DO is work on the hard parts.
This is why I'm excited to try @humanlayer_dev
Amir Elaguizy, Founder @ CrateJoy (YC S13)
