United States
2 months ago

Job Overview

Job Type
Full Time
Pay
Not disclosed

Job description

Salary:
This is an equity-first founding role .
Location:
United States
Work arrangement:
On-site

Role Summary

Why This Role Exists

In the age of AI, execution is being fundamentally redesigned.

Work that was previously

  1. manually specified
  2. manually tested
  3. manually coordinated

is increasingly becoming AI-operated and agent-driven .

This changes the role of Technical Project Management and QA.

  1. Instead of managing tasks and reporting bugs, the system itself can:
  2. generate specifications
  3. simulate workflows
  4. validate outcomes

What becomes critical is

someone who designs how this system operates and ensures it produces correct outcomes.

What This Role Is

This role combines

Technical Project Management (TPM) — team alignment, orchestration, KPIs, outcomes

Quality Assurance (QA) — system correctness, validation, reproducibility

Redesigned for an AI-native system .

You own

  1. how work is executed across the system
  2. whether the system behaves correctly under real-world conditions
  3. The Problem

Young people are more connected online than ever, yet lonelier than any generation before them.

Most digital platforms are optimized for passive consumption on screens, pulling people away from the environments they live in.

Phygtl is building a system where

  1. physical environments become stateful systems
  2. human coordination generates persistent artifacts
  3. places accumulate structured memory and identity
  4. distributed services maintain the world state of these environments
  5. Recent proofs
  6. 12k → 175k students reached in 2025
  7. 25% of MAUs complete quests
  8. pilots show up to 40% reduction in social isolation
  9. The team combines consumer product, spatial, and game-world expertise, with seasoned talent from:
  10. Roblox • Niantic • Ubisoft
  11. alongside a research layer that includes:
  12. 2 professors • 4 PhDs
  13. Future Direction

Today Vyry operates as a mobile app.

The next phase evolves the system into infrastructure for smart glasses.

The long-term architecture enables developers and brands to create context-aware activities inside the spatial environment , similar to how platforms like Roblox enabled creators to build experiences on top of a shared world layer.

This requires building systems that not only scale technically, but behave correctly under real-world coordination.

You operate across three layers

  1. Execution Layer (TPM)

You ensure work flows correctly across the system

align teams around clear outcomes

orchestrate execution across product, engineering, and AI systems

translate system needs into structured work (Jira or equivalent)

define KPIs such as:

system correctness

time to resolution

execution quality

ensure outcomes match expectations

  1. Correctness Layer (QA)

You ensure the system behaves correctly (Agents to run QA for Unity):

define expected system behavior across flows

identify where behavior diverges

reproduce issues and edge cases

validate fixes

ensure failures are:

understood at root cause

reproducible

prevented from recurring

  1. AI-Native Layer

This includes

  1. translating system gaps into clear, structured tasks (tickets, flows, validation units)
  2. ensuring issues are:
  3. clearly defined
  4. reproducible
  5. outcome-driven
  6. establishing and evolving KPIs , including:
  7. system correctness
  8. validation coverage
  9. time to resolution
  10. owning how work is tracked and resolved (Jira or equivalent)
  11. ensuring bugs are not just reported, but:
  12. fully understood
  13. fixed at the root
  14. prevented from recurring
  15. Hard Problems We’re Exploring
  16. ensuring correctness across multi-user, multi-step coordination flows
  17. designing validation systems that scale with real-world complexity
  18. orchestrating AI agents to simulate and validate system behavior
  19. building systems that detect and resolve failures before users experience them

We are looking for a founding-level system operator and builder .

This role sits at the intersection of

  1. execution (TPM)
  2. correctness (QA)
  3. automation (AI)

This is not a traditional TPM role.

This is not a manual QA role.

This is ownership of a new system layer .

Without this role, the system scales in features but not in correctness, and breaks under real-world coordination.

You can join either

Part-time , while keeping your current role

Full-time

This role is designed for someone who wants to be a founding member without starting from scratch alone .

Who This Is For

People who

  1. think in systems and execution, not just features
  2. are strong in:
  3. team alignment
  4. orchestration
  5. driving outcomes
  6. naturally identify:
  7. edge cases
  8. system failures
  9. are comfortable working with:
  10. engineers
  11. AI systems
  12. product flows
  13. care deeply about correctness and outcomes
  14. Who This Is NOT For

Please do not apply if

  1. you are looking for a salaried job today
  2. you want a freelance contract or short-term gig
  3. you are bridging time until your next role
  4. you prefer clearly defined specs over ambiguous systems

This is a founding role with real ownership and ambiguity .

If Interested

Send

  1. a short note on why this role resonates
  2. examples of systems you’ve debugged, validated, or improved
  3. Final Thought

If you have thought, “I want to build my own startup and make a real impact” — and are looking to do it as part of a team already in motion — we want to hear form you

Responsibilities

You design how validation and execution scale

  • implement agents that:
  • simulate user behavior
  • test flows
  • validate outcomes
  • measure system performance
  • create feedback loops that continuously improve the system
  • reduce reliance on manual QA and manual coordination
  • Operational Ownership
  • You will define how system behavior becomes actionable across the team .
  • Compensation is equity-only until our next funding round (target H2 2026).

We are exploring the opposite

  • technology that brings people together in real-world environments.
  • To do that, software must understand place, context, and coordinated action , not just users and clicks.

What We Are Building

  • Vyry is infrastructure that allows physical places to accumulate persistent digital meaning through human participation.
  • When students coordinate in quests, they are not simply completing activities. They are creating artifacts, relationships, and identity traces that remain anchored to real locations.
  • Over time, campuses develop a persistent experiential layer , where places contain memories, co-created assets, and discovery paths generated by the community itself.
  • The experiences are not the product.
  • They are the behavioral interface through which the system learns how humans coordinate and co-create meaning in physical environments.
Role:
Founding AI-Native TPM & Systems Integrity Lead
Job Type:
Full Time

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