We have no fancy careers page because we have no fancy headcount. There are three founding seats open, all in person in İstanbul, all reporting directly to the founder, all with meaningful equity. We will hire one or two of these in 2026 and the rest in 2027 — slowly, on taste. If you are the right shape for one of them, the path here is short.
Research-minded co-founder with deep multimodal-ML experience. You will lead the BULUT-1 model line — architecture choices, training strategy, paper publication discipline. Title flexible. Equity meaningful. Scope wide.
Owns stratus end to end. CUDA-comfortable, distributed-training-curious, allergic to bullshit benchmark numbers. Will architect how every future model we ship is trained, with outsized influence on the engineering culture.
Builds, calibrates and operates the multimodal capture pipeline. Spends a meaningful percentage of year one in the field, on rooftops, in vehicles, with sensors. Hardware-friendly software engineers welcome — bonus points for prior calibration work.
You meet the founder directly. We learn what you want; you learn what we are. Either side can say no without explanation. We expect most to.
A small, real problem from our backlog — paid (€500), capped at six hours of effort. You keep the IP if we do not hire you. Examples will be public on our GitHub once it goes live.
Architecture / paper deep-dive with the founder, or with a respected external collaborator if your domain is outside the founder's. No leetcode. No trick questions.
Lunch with the founder, a working session on the actual problem, and a relaxed conversation about what year three could look like. We pay flights and a hotel.
We share our notes from every interview with you (yes, all of them). Compensation breakdown is itemised. We answer follow-up questions in writing. You have 14 days to decide.
Roughly senior-IC İstanbul-market rates. Honest about it. Will improve materially when we raise our first institutional round.
Founding-tier equity for the first three hires. 4-year vest, 1-year cliff. Early exercise enabled. ISO-style for non-Türkiye hires.
Premium private health insurance for you and dependents in Türkiye. We will match the EU/US standard once we can afford to.
Plus public holidays. We require people to take at least 25 — burnout in year one is the most common reason early-stage hires leave.
Conferences, courses, books, equipment. Modest by Big Tech standards, generous for a pre-seed company. Approval rarely required.
If you are moving to İstanbul. We will help with paperwork. Türkiye work permit handled by a labour lawyer we already use.
Pre-installed, on your desk before day one. The chair is up to you.
Three days minimum at first. The point of the founding team is being in the room. Fully-remote is not on the table for these roles.
Better cash bands, parental leave matched to EU norms, 401k-equivalent retirement matching, off-sites that are not somebody's living room.
A typical Tuesday at Bulut Labs starts with the cluster — the founder is checking a single-node training run that started over the weekend. By 10 a.m. there is bread on the kitchen counter from someone's neighbourhood bakery, and an argument about whether expert-2 has collapsed again.
By lunch the argument is settled with a notebook plot. By 4 p.m. we are debugging a capture rig. By 6 p.m. one of us is at the rooftop terrace with a coffee; the other is on a call with a prospective design partner. By the time you log off, the run is at step 142k.
A CV is fine. A GitHub link is better. A short note explaining what you want to build with us is best of all. The founder reads every application personally and replies in 5 business days.