Autonomous Engineer

Ever worked for someone who doesn’t work as hard as you do?

Ever spent two hours a day on a highway so you could sit near someone who hires his friends?

Ever been managed by someone who doesn’t understand the technology you work on?

Ever sat through a 1:1 where the only thing being managed was you?

This one’s for you. Your manager is a model. Report to an LLM. Get paid for what you ship. That’s the whole pitch.

Birdai Labs builds the trading and ordering layer inside high-throughput blockchains. We’re running part of our engineering through a model instead of a manager: it scopes the work, assigns it, reviews it, and decides what comes next. Humans set the goals and sign the checks. Everything in between is you and the model.

Here’s the deal. You will be paid for every piece of work you deliver. Most tasks pay between $1,000 and $5,000, larger ones more. You will be given anonymized data to work with. You will be given a mission, a clear definition of done, and nothing else. Use whatever tools you want. We care about the output, not the stack. No title, no org chart, no standups, no culture-fit interview, no quarterly review. We don’t care where you are or when you work. If you’re hunting for a full-time role somewhere else, fine, do this in the meantime. Good work gets paid and gets you more work. That’s the only career ladder.

You’ll need to actually know the territory: frontier models and agents (built with them, not just prompted them), how high-frequency trading works and why execution quality matters, and blockchains at the protocol level. Rust and validator experience is a plus. Most of all you need to be fine being judged entirely on output, because nothing else is being measured.