{
  "company": "Tessera",
  "location": "Tel Aviv / Amsterdam",
  "stage": "pre-seed",
  "updated": "2026-08-28",
  "open_roles": [
    {
      "slug": "tech-cofounder",
      "title": "Tech Co-Founder",
      "tagline": "Not a hire — a full co-founder, equal from day one. Equal say in what we build, not only how it gets built.",
      "type": "founding team, equity + salary",
      "location": "Tel Aviv / Amsterdam (remote-friendly)",
      "edge": "product and direction ownership, not just execution",
      "why_this_seat": "We're building this right now, early enough that the team isn't fixed yet. What's missing is whoever turns the thesis into shipped software at founding speed, with equal say in what \"done\" means.",
      "what_it_means": [
        "Equal say in what we build, who we hire, and how we raise",
        "Technical ownership that is still hands-on — everyone builds, early",
        "Founding-tier equity, negotiated directly, not banded like a hire",
        "Investor and customer-facing from day one"
      ],
      "expectation": "The exact technical lane isn't fixed yet — that's decided together, not before you join.",
      "url": "https://tesserahq.live/careers/tech-cofounder",
      "markdown_url": "https://tesserahq.live/careers/tech-cofounder.md",
      "apply_url": "https://tesserahq.live/apply?role=tech-cofounder"
    },
    {
      "slug": "founding-engineer",
      "title": "Founding Engineer",
      "tagline": "An all-round founding position. Take the coordination layer from primitives to something real teams depend on.",
      "type": "full-time",
      "location": "Tel Aviv / Amsterdam (remote-friendly)",
      "edge": "generalist depth — systems, data, interface, and customer reality",
      "why_one_role": "We would rather find one person who can hold the whole problem than five who each hold a slice of it.",
      "surfaces": [
        "Data substrate that turns raw agent activity into a queryable, trustworthy picture",
        "Services and deployment paths — cloud, gateway, on-prem — that survive a security review",
        "Computed trust: behavioural evidence into small, fast models, evaluated properly",
        "Steering interfaces where a human redirects the workforce without losing flow",
        "Design partner deployments, and bringing that truth back into the product"
      ],
      "stack": "Typed backend services, high-volume event streams, columnar analytics, MCP and agent protocols, small models and evals, modern web frontend, data visualisation, cloud and on-prem deployment, observability.",
      "expectation": "Nobody is excellent at all five surfaces. We expect real depth in one or two and genuine willingness across the rest.",
      "url": "https://tesserahq.live/careers/founding-engineer",
      "markdown_url": "https://tesserahq.live/careers/founding-engineer.md",
      "apply_url": "https://tesserahq.live/apply?role=founding-engineer"
    }
  ],
  "how_to_apply": {
    "human": "https://tesserahq.live/apply",
    "agent": "POST /api/applications (JSON or multipart). GET /apply with an agent user-agent returns the field schema.",
    "email": "team@tesserahq.live",
    "note": "Agent-submitted applications are welcome, recorded as such, and read the same way as any other."
  },
  "apply": "POST /api/applications (JSON or multipart/form-data) with name, email, role, and your work.",
  "next": {
    "level": 1,
    "hint": "Applying through the form is a complete application — we read every one. If you'd rather show how you work than describe it, point your agent at the machine-readable docs (/api/roles, /careers/tech-cofounder.md, /careers/founding-engineer.md) and submit programmatically. Depth is optional and never required."
  }
}