MAVIK VENTURES

Seed–Series C · SF & NY

We build founding engineering teams for startups.

Tell us who you need to hire. We'll reach out within 24 hours to schedule your kickoff and start your search.

Seed–Series C · SF & NY · Engineering roles

See how we run a search →

Startups we've helped scale

  • Exa
  • LlamaIndex
  • Profound
  • Jetstream
  • Martian
  • You.com
  • Anduril
  • Fal
  • Sila
  • Saildrone
  • Glean
  • Scale

How we calibrate

Every candidate, measured against your bar.

At kickoff we define what great looks like for your team. Every profile we send is matched against it, so you only spend time on people who fit.

Search brief · 01

Founding Full Stack Engineer

  • Seed
  • San Francisco
  • In office
  • $185–225K + equity

What great looks like

Set at kickoff

  • Has shipped a v1 as an early engineer

    Match: Engineer #2 at a seed-stage startup; built and launched v1

  • Owns product decisions without a PM

    Match: Ran the roadmap directly with the CEO for 2 years

  • Production LLM experience

    Match: Built and shipped LLM features used by paying customers

Search brief · 02

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Series B
  • New York
  • Hybrid
  • $185–225K + equity

What great looks like

Set at kickoff

  • Has scaled infrastructure through hypergrowth

    Match: Scaled the platform as eng grew from 10 to 150

  • End-to-end ownership of reliability and cost

    Match: Owned on-call, uptime and cloud spend at a Series C

  • Can build the platform team

    Match: Hired and led the first 4 platform engineers

Search brief · 03

Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Series A
  • San Francisco
  • Hybrid
  • $185–225K + equity

What great looks like

Set at kickoff

  • Comfortable in front of enterprise customers

    Match: Led 12 enterprise deployments start to finish

  • Turns field feedback into product

    Match: Shipped 3 roadmap features that started as customer requests

  • Hands-on with LLM workflows

    Match: Built LLM integrations for customer data pipelines

Briefs based on our most common searches

What to expect

How a Mavik search runs.

Every search follows the same system, built around your company. We set it up fast, learn quickly and keep the pace up until the offer is signed.

  1. DAY 0

    Prepared kickoff

    We come in with market research on your role. You walk us through the team, the work and what great looks like.

  2. DAY 2

    Benchmark profiles

    Within 48 hours you review real profiles with us. Your feedback sets the target before anyone wastes a week.

  3. DAYS 3–20

    Calibrated pipeline

    Only people worth your time. Every candidate we send, and every reason you pass, sharpens the search.

  4. DAYS 20–25

    Offer and close

    We run the process with you, keep candidates engaged and help you land the hire.

We work best with founders who are serious about hiring.

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Seed–Series C · SF & NY · Engineering roles