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Founding Engineer · San Francisco · Full-time

Ghost makes personal AI factories.

Ghost is a hardware-enabled software company building an agent computer, your personal AI, running 24/7, with your data completely private. Software is still at the core; they don’t make chips. They’re well-funded and assembling an aggressively talented team to work on the hardest unsolved problems in agents.

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Team
Zain Javaid

Zain Javaid

Founder

Started coding at 9; raised his first fund at 12; ran $2M+ at Millennium at 14; skipped Yale to start Ghost.

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Nicholas Chua

Nicholas Chua

Head of Growth

Left school to lead growth at Ghost. Previously head of X at Wispr Flow (10M+ impressions). Scaled four social accounts to 75M+ impressions and 100K+ followers; met Zain while filming for ZFellows.

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$10.5MSeed · led by a16z
SFIn person · relo supported
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ShippingUnits in production with customers
01 · What Ghost builds

The first computer built for agents.

Ghost is building the first computer designed specifically for agents, a hardware-enabled software company where software is still at the core. They don’t manufacture new chips; they build an agent computer that runs your personal AI 24/7. Because Ghost owns the operating system, there are no platform restrictions on what the agent can’t do, so it can automate anything, and because it’s your own machine, your data stays completely private. This isn’t a research demo: Ghost has rented warehouse space next to the office, stood up the machinery to build and ship, and units are already in production with customers.

The device

An agent computer, on 24/7

A machine built for agents that runs your personal AI continuously, proactively learning from your life the way today’s devices can’t.

Owns the OS

No restrictions, automate anything

Ghost owns the operating system, so the agent isn’t boxed in by someone else’s platform rules, if it can be done, it can be automated.

Private by design

Your data stays yours

It’s your own computer, not a cloud account. Your data is completely private, held on the machine rather than someone else’s servers.

Already shipping

In production with customers

A warehouse next to the office, the machinery to build and ship, and units already out in the field, real products, not a demo reel.

02 · Backing

$10.5M seed, led by a16z.

Ghost is well-funded, with a $10.5M seed round led by a16z, with Audacious and other top-tier backers participating, to build the founding team and ship for real users.

a16z Audacious Abstract Ventures SV Angel Z Fellows Parable Founders of Instacart Founders of Tinder
03 · Open role

Founding Engineer.

Founding · Full-time

Founding Engineer

San Francisco · in person (relo supported)
Join an aggressively talented team working on the hardest unsolved problems in agentic systems and product. You’re a fit for the founding eng role if you:
  • Use agents to write >90% of your code
  • Have done exceptional things in the past
  • Have the endurance to prompt 12hrs+ in a day
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Who Ghost is

Well-funded, building for billions

Existing team members have left the world’s leading quant shops and universities to build real products for billions of humans at Ghost.

Build the personal agent for everyone.

San Francisco, in person, relocation supported. The hardest problems in agents, at the ground floor. If that’s your kind of work, let’s talk.