Sphere
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
This posting was open on Sphere's own careers board when we last checked it.
- Employer
- Sphere
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- Not disclosed
- Team
- Full stack
When we saw it
- First seen 2026-07-23 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-23
- Archived 2026-07-23 — when we saved this copy
Found via Y Combinator Work at a Startup.
From the posting
# ABOUT SPHERE Every breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market. Containerization for goods. SWIFT for money. Stripe for payments. Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up. They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other. Sphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts. We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime. - Backed by a16z and YC. …
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