Elizabeth Below
3.7K posts
@ebelow
chicago. data librarian. knowledge systems, weather, human-ai dynamics, whiskey. hire me
HIRING: Engineer #3 aka "Q" I am looking for the Q to my James Bond, handling AI agents and building me any new keyboard weapons I dream of. The ideal Q: - Dreamed of being a secret agent, now builds AI agents - Build in private > Build in public - YouTube > College - Dog, not degree - Books > YouTube - Ops > CS - Ends > Means (No-Code ≈ Code) - Didn't follow directions on Lego sets - Grit > IQ - Miami > Nowhere, USA > Israel > North Korea > NYC/SF - Creativity = Chaos - Take your silliness seriously - British accent is a plus, fake one also acceptable Downsides: - I am a dictator and #1 power user of product - Working in memetic warfare means you will occasionally get hit in crossfire (ex. hit pieces in Rolling Stone on me and where you work) - Me and the whole marketing team vibe codes (you will frequently get mogged by dudes who don't know how to code) Upsides: - $120k-180k + equity - Miami relocation bonus - Unlimited book budget + software budget + PTO ~ Unlimited runway - You will work like a dog, but laugh like a king - You can't get cancelled for tweets (by joining Memelord, you are cancelling yourself) - Extremely rare combination of unhinged goofballs who are hyper-capitalist with finance bro work ethics - Whole team is power users of our own product building something we love - Hang with our baller customers/VCs - Engineers must market and yap about their projects - "I never ate a bad meal with Jason Levin" - our CTO - Boats - Insurance (United, don't shoot me) - Travel the world to make memes (from Vegas to Vietnam) If you're up for the mission, DM me keyboard weapons you've built:
Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/sna…
I agree with this fully. There is a totally new role emerging here. It's a net new role, and requires a somewhat unique set of skills. This is a nascent idea / stream of conciousness, but the reason I know it exists is because this is essentially what I am doing right now for a handful of companies. Skills that are useful for this role: - Systems thinking - Being good at interviewing people to understand what they do and asking good questions. - Building diagrams / mental models of how work flows within an organization - Being on the leading edge of agentic coding platforms (e.g. Claude Code) - Experimentation mindset - Asking questions until you fully understand the job to be done - Realizing that sometimes the job to be done is to completely change the job to be done - Communicating across different functions, but in a way that forces changes versus build alignment - Courage to try new things Lots of other stuff I missed, but if you blur your eyes, these traits all kind of distill down to: - curiosity - agency - willingness to learn new thing - courage to fundamentally change a lot of things that people just assume are the right way to do things, but no longer hold. You need to be willing to burn a lot of things down, in a way that gets folks on the ship and makes them better. It's an amazing time to be building things, and if this vaguely sounds like you --- go for it. Nothing is figured out yet, and you are the one that can help figure it all out.
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This has to be the prettiest stretch of railroad suburbs in America, right?
This has to be the prettiest stretch of railroad suburbs in America, right?
