Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

Summary

You've been watching the AI capability curve. You've done the mental math. You know where this is going. While most people are still debating whether LLMs can "really" reason, you're thinking about what happens when agents replace entire functions, when systems can debug themselves, when software can operate without humans touching it. We're building that future. Right now. With real companies. The Premise Rocketable acquires profitable SaaS companies and transforms them into fully autonomous systems. No human operators. No engineering team shipping features. No support staff answering tickets. Just AI running the entire business. This sounds crazy to most people, but the trajectory is obvious if you're paying attention. Within a few years, the question won't be "can AI run a software company?" It will be "why would a human?" If you think we're wrong, don't apply. If you think we're early, let's talk. The Role You'll be the architect of the platform that makes this possible. Starting point: A live SaaS company. Revenue. Customers. All the messy reality of a business that currently requires humans to operate. Week 4: Your agent swarm handles first-line customer support. A meta-layer analyzes every human intervention—not just logging it, but learning from it. Why did a human need to step in? How do we eliminate that trigger? Week 12: Hours of autonomous operation. Agents creating specialized sub-agents. The system building its own tools when it hits capability gaps. Performance metrics tracking toward superhuman baselines. Beyond: Each new acquisition stress-tests your abstractions. Different tech stacks. Different domains. Different edge cases. The platform either generalizes or we start over and rebuild until it does. The Filter Apply if: You believe full automation for software companies isn't just possible, it's inevitable (and you want to be the one building it). You'd rather fail at something unprecedented than succeed at something incremental. You want to work ...