Customer-facing trust roles
Enterprise sales, customer success for top-tier accounts, regulator-facing positions, public-facing investor relations. Trust here is human-shaped, not Cyborg-shaped — at least for now.
— HUMAN ROLES · AT ALIENS · THE PARENT COMPANY
Yes, we hire humans.
Selectively. The bar is unusually high.
Aliens builds the platform that lets customers be founder-only. We believe in that thesis enough to live it ourselves — the company is bootstrapped, currently runs with 1 founder + Cyborgs, and adds humans only for roles that genuinely cannot be Cyborg-shaped. That bar is high. Yeh page real hai — not LinkedIn-bait.
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Open roles right now — zero.
We’re currently bootstrapped. Hiring will open when (a) revenue justifies it, (b) the work is clearly outside what a Cyborg can credibly do, and (c) we’ve written a real job spec we’d sign ourselves. None of those three are true today. Honest signal > vanity job board.
— 02 / WHEN WE DO HIRE
— SHAPE OF THE FUTURE TEAM
Three kinds of human we’ll hire — eventually.
When the queue opens, expect roles in these three buckets. Anything else is unlikely to ship as a human role at Aliens — it’ll be a Cyborg.
Platform-shaping hard engineering
WebOS engine designers, security architects, data-isolation engineers. The roles that build the platform Cyborgs run on — meta-work that a Cyborg can’t do because it would be modifying its own substrate.
Civilization-mission programs
Education partnerships, climate / multi-planet research collaborations, cross-cultural infrastructure pilots. Roles that exist to honour declaration #07 of the manifesto. Will start small.
— 03 / FUTURE ROLE PIPELINE
— PROBABLE FIRST HUMAN HIRES
If you’d be a fit for one of these — register interest now.
These will likely open in the next 6–18 months. Sending a thoughtful note now puts you on the shortlist before we ever post publicly.
Founding Solutions Engineer (BFSI)Hybrid · Mumbai · first 6 months
FUTUREFounding Customer Success (enterprise BFSI)Mumbai or Bengaluru
FUTURESenior Security Architect (data isolation, multi-tenant SaaS)Remote-first
FUTUREWebOS Platform Engineer (runtime + scheduler)Remote-first · senior IC
FUTURECompliance Counsel (DPDP / GDPR / SEBI)India-based
FUTUREEducation Programs LeadIndia + diaspora · civilization-mission bucket
FUTURE
— 04 / HOW TO REGISTER INTEREST
— THE SLOW PATH BEATS THE FORM
No careers portal — just a real email.
— SEND A NOTE
careers@aliens.company
Tell us: which bucket, what you’ve shipped, why this company. 200 words is plenty. CV optional. Templated AI-generated cover letters auto-deleted.
open mail client →— PUBLIC WORK
Show, don’t tell.
Best applications include public artefacts: open-source code, written essays, talks, products you’ve shipped. The bar is “could you do the work alone?” — demonstration beats credentialism.
resume ≠ portfolio. We read both.
— 05 / WORKING AT ALIENS
— HONEST EXPECTATIONS
What it’s actually like.
Is this remote, hybrid, or office?+
Remote-first by default. India-based hires meet quarterly in Mumbai for a long week of in-person work. Customer-facing roles tend to need 2–3 days a week in client metros (Mumbai, Bengaluru, NCR).
What’s comp like?+
Aligned to the upper quartile of comparable Indian tech companies (Razorpay, CRED, Postman scale — not FAANG-level). ESOPs from day one with a transparent vesting schedule. We’ll show the cap table on offer-stage; no surprises.
Will I work with Cyborgs as colleagues?+
Yes. Daily. You’ll get a Cyborg manager-of-process for your role on day 1. You’ll review Cyborgs’ outputs and get reviewed by them in turn. Yeh experience hi differentiator hai — you’ll see how this stuff works at the inside.
Is the founder hands-on?+
Very. A’nil reads every PR for the first 12 months of any new hire’s tenure. Customer week (every 4th week) is run by him personally. Memo-first culture means most decisions are written, so newcomers get the reasoning, not just the outcome.
What’s the worst part of working here?+
Quality bar is exhausting. Memos take longer than meetings would have. Customer week is intense. The 10-year-thinking framing means short-term wins are explicitly discounted. If you need fast feedback loops + frequent shipping dopamine, this isn’t the place.
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