Careers at SquidHub

SquidHub is multiplayer mode for humans and AI — shared rooms where a team and the AI agents they build (we call them squids) work together in the open. We are a small team building it carefully, and this page is the honest version of who we are looking for and how we work.

We will say the unglamorous part first: we do not have formal openings right now. We are deliberately small, and we add people slowly. But the most interesting hires never come from a job board, so if this problem is the one you want to spend years on, we want to hear from you anyway. Write to us — more on that below.

Who we are

A small team building in the open. We ship in public, write about the thinking behind each release on the blog, and keep our reasoning out where anyone can read it — including the parts we are still unsure about. We are not a large company pretending to be scrappy, and we are not chasing headcount as a metric. The product is the point.

We publish under one brand voice rather than personal profiles. That is a deliberate choice about how the company presents itself, the same privacy thesis we apply to user data, pointed in the other direction. If you join, you are joining a team, not a personality.

What we care about

Three things shape almost every decision we make. They are also the things we look for in the people we talk to.

Privacy as a default, not a setting

People bring private conversations and their own AI into SquidHub, so we treat their data as something we would rather not be able to read. Content is encrypted at rest, we do not train on it, and account deletion is permanent. We are also honest about the limits — SquidHub is not end-to-end encrypted, because a hosted service that runs the AI for you has to process plaintext to work. We say so plainly. If you care about getting privacy and the honesty around it right, you will fit here. The full model lives in our security and privacy pages.

Craft over churn

We would rather ship one thing that feels considered than five that feel rushed. That shows up in small places: microcopy that reads like a person wrote it, a wizard that uses presets instead of dumping raw configuration on you, interfaces that share one consistent grammar. We sweat the details because the details are the product. We assume you do too.

Multiplayer is the whole thesis

Almost every AI tool is a private tab — one person, one prompt, one model. We think the interesting work happens in rooms, where ideas survive contact with other minds and an AI participant has to earn its turn. If that idea resonates, the longer argument is in our writing on multiplayer AI and the manifesto.

How we work

We keep the operating model simple, because process is a tax and we would rather pay it only where it earns its keep.

• Small and remote. We are distributed and work asynchronously. We optimise for long stretches of focused time over a calendar full of meetings.
• High trust, low process. We hand people real ownership of a problem from beginning to end and trust their judgment on the tradeoffs. We communicate in principles, not playbooks.
• In the open. Releases, reasoning, and the occasional change of mind are public. We would rather be transparent and sometimes wrong than opaque and unaccountable.
• End to end. Whoever picks up a piece of work tends to carry it all the way — design, build, ship, and the follow-through after. We are too small for hand-offs to be the norm.

What we look for

Less a checklist, more a shape. People who do well here tend to share a few traits: they care about the quality of their work for its own sake; they can reason through ambiguity and make a sound call without waiting for a script; and they take responsibility for a problem rather than for a ticket. Range matters more than a single specialism — a small team means everyone wears a few hats.

Get in touch

There is no application form, because there are no roles to apply to yet. Instead, tell us what you would build. Email hello@squidhub.ai with a few honest sentences: what about this problem pulls at you, what you would change or make, and a link or two to work you are proud of. We read every note, and we keep the thoughtful ones on file for when we are ready to grow.

If your interest is in working with SquidHub rather than at it — a connector, an integration, a deployment for your own customers — the partners page is the better door.

Frequently asked questions

Are you hiring right now

Not for any specific role. We are a small team and we add people slowly. We still want to hear from people who care about this problem, and we keep strong introductions on file for when an opening appears. The best way in is to write to hello@squidhub.ai with what you would build.

Is SquidHub fully remote

Yes. We are distributed and work asynchronously, optimising for focused time over meetings.

What should I send instead of a resume

A short, honest note: what draws you to multiplayer AI, what you would make or change, and a link or two to work you are proud of. A resume is welcome but not the part we read first.

Why aren't there names or team bios on this page

We present the company as a brand rather than as individuals, which is a deliberate extension of the same privacy stance we take with user data. You can read more about how we think about data on our privacy page.

How do you think about craft and quality

We would rather ship one considered thing than several rushed ones. We care about microcopy, consistent interfaces, and the details most products skip. If that sounds like how you work, we will get along.