Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

Note: This function is exclusively accessible to U.S. citizens who can get and keep a U.S. government-issued Top Secret safety clearance alongside full-scope polygraph. There are no exceptions.

Who We Are:

Our goal at Hazel is uncomplicated and powerful. We use AI to assistance U.S. authorities purchasing teams buy at the speed of need alongside unparalleled effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. It is a $2.7T issue all sole year, and Hazel is at the forefront alongside Federal and State, Local, and Education (SLED) agencies.  

Hazel has identified a once-in-a-lifetime chance to resolve this by deploying cutting-edge AI to the community field and unlocking the complete possible of our nation. We empower our partners to move alongside expediency against the most pressing challenges of this century. Hazel builds AI for the community interest.

What We Are Building:

Hazel is transforming authorities procurement: how authorities agencies acquisition products and services from business vendors. You’ll activity immediately alongside our national partners in deploying our AI-forward bid evaluations solution, assisting them measure vendors additional accurately, reliably, and quickly. With the national authorities under expanding force to accelerate acquisitions, our tools provision them a genuine edge.

Our complete COTS phase supports the complete procurement lifecycle from need acknowledgment through award management, and our another partners contain province & local governments, schools, and particular authorities.

About the Role:

As a Hazel complete stack engineer, you volition be at the helm of architecting and construction Hazel’s platform. You volition activity closely alongside Hazel’s customers to acknowledge ache points to prioritize the most impactful features.  You volition build new features all week and be faced alongside many challenging specialized problems. Most importantly, you associate the tip of the spear in delivering productive and safe AI for the community sector.

This particular function is for deploying and scaling Hazel's cutting-edge AI for our largest agreement alongside among the most crucial U.S. authorities agencies. You volition bring it into manufacturing by owning the customization, safety accreditation, and deployment of Hazel in a distinctive operational environment. 

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:

• Define, iterate, and execute on projects contributing to Hazel’s merchandise roadmap 
• Identify areas for procedure and specialized improvements, and obtain the undertaking to enhance engineering processes and structures in classified environments 
• Collaborate alongside colleagues, customers, and partners to comprehend key tactical and strategic priorities and provision innovative, impactful solutions 
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring they encounter rigorous standards of quality, performance, and safety certification for a classified deployment 
• Work onsite in Washington D.C. to deploy Hazel onto classified networks

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven cognition as a complete stack engineer or akin role
• Experience alongside our tech stack, which includes:
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • AuthN/AuthZ, including SAML and OIDC sole sign-on alongside client IdPs
  • Docker
  • AWS and IaC (CDK)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Building LLM features into manufacturing workflows
• Experience construction complex, workflow-heavy applications
• Adeptness alongside using AI Coding Tools (e.g. Cursor/Claude Code)
• Willingness to expend 25% of period onsite alongside customers (all journey is covered)
• Excitement concerning bringing innovation to the community sector
• Continuous run towards learning and individual development

Nice to Have Experience:

• Has worked at a startup or startup-like environment
• TS/SCI alongside FSP
  • We volition sponsor new clearances
• Experience operating in air-gapped or classified environments, including shipping application into infrastructure the client controls
• Security certification (e.g., IL-6, ICD-503)
• AWS Solutions Architect or similar
• Building or contributing to “from scratch” applications that had many users
• Mapping endeavor priorities to specialized priorities and vice versa
• Working alongside or neighboring to the community sector
• Accessibility activity to Section 508 or WCAG 2.1 AA
• PDF and document processing, including scanned documents
• Federal acquisition or origin selection

Compensation:

$150K - $200K USD | 0.25% - 0.5% Company Equity 

• Generous health & 401(k) benefits 
• Relocation Assistance 
• Unlimited PTO

Why Join Hazel:

This is Hazel’s archetypal involvement in a new client portfolio. We are among the extremely archetypal startups to always win activity alongside this customer. You volition guide this merchandise deployment. If you are curious in a occupation in national security, we volition sponsor your Top Secret clearance for this role.

As a Hazel engineer, you’ll decorator and deploy secure, scalable systems that bring AI to authorities procurement. You’ll own features end-to-end, from backend services and data pipelines to example integration and front-end delivery, assisting our partners move faster and smarter. Hazel combines startup speed alongside the goal concentration of community service.

You’ll activity side-by-side alongside inquisitive and driven founders as fine as a world-class and energetic founding engineering team. Hazel continuously promotes learning and provides many resources from our founders, another startups, and VCs – as fine as frontline visibility to client executives and multiple engineering skillsets.

Hazel is a mission-driven institution founded by engineers and built about delivering world-class innovation to our authorities partners. We strive for excellence, provision impact, and have fun doing it.

How You Fit Us:

You attention concerning mission. Hazel partners alongside agencies supporting everything from community academy teachers in the classroom to warfighters in the field. We accept in products which alter America for the better. 

You desire a startup that is organized without being rigid, quality-obsessed without being slow, and product-led without losing the vision. You obtain ownership: shaping the roadmap, talking to customers, and wearing many hats. We build exceptional generalists. 

You resolve problems. There’s no additional period to opine on scheme and guideline whenever our nation faces existential challenges, today. We are workhorses, not showhorses. 

You are continually learning. Nobody has all the answers, and the earth is ever-evolving, so we must be adaptive. We bring the finest practices accessible from all domains to encounter the challenge. 

You accept in team. Our squad grows together, supports one another, and elevates our shared successes. We are additional productive together.

Disclosures:

Hazel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants volition obtain deliberation for occupation without regard to race, color, religion, sex, intimate orientation, sex identity, national origin, impairment or seasoned status, age, or any another federally protected class.

Hazel’s name is inspired by Hazel Ying Lee, among the archetypal Chinese-American women to assist in the U.S. armed forces as a associate of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. All Americans can interrupt barriers, challenge to innovate, and be the change.