Note: These roles are exclusively available to U.S. citizens who can obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Top Secret security clearance. There are no exceptions.

Who We Are:

Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We use AI to help U.S. government purchasing teams buy at the speed of need with unparalleled efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It is a $2.7T problem every single year, and Hazel is at the forefront with State, Local, and EDucation (SLED) and federal government agencies.

Government procurement has moved at a glacial pace for decades, stovepiped by complex processes, regulatory capture, and overworked civil servants. The impacts are severe. Our founders saw at Palantir and BCG how lowly procurement challenges fueled wildfires across California, compromised critical U.S. national security systems, and wasted billions of dollars.

Hazel has identified a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve this by deploying cutting-edge AI to the public sector and unlocking the full potential of our nation. We empower our partners to move with expediency against the most pressing challenges of this century including climate sustainability, great power competition, and more. Hazel builds AI for the public interest.

What We Are Building:

Hazel is transforming government procurement – how government agencies purchase goods and services from commercial vendors. This includes everything from water bottles to housing to next generation defense drones. Our platform supports the entire procurement lifecycle from need identification through award management. Hazel’s partners include state & local governments, schools, and federal agencies with whom we develop a product with features including solicitation creation, market research, evaluations, and more.

Why Join Hazel:

Hazel has unparalleled access and insight into how top government stakeholders manage billions in public funds. Our mission is to help our partners further stretch every dollar and deliver on what their mission.

As a Hazel engineer, you’ll architect and deploy secure, scalable systems that bring AI to government procurement. You’ll own features end-to-end, from backend services and data pipelines to model integration and front-end delivery, helping our partners move faster and smarter. Hazel combines startup speed with the mission focus of public service.

You’ll work side-by-side with inquisitive and driven founders as well as a world-class and dynamic founding engineering team. Hazel continuously promotes learning and provides numerous resources from other founders, startups, and VCs.

Hazel is a mission-driven organization founded by engineers and built around delivering world-class innovation to our government partners. We strive for excellence, deliver impact, and have fun doing it.

How You Fit Us:

You care about mission. Hazel partners with agencies supporting everything from public school teachers in the classroom to warfighters in the field. We believe in products which change America for the better.

You solve problems. There’s no more time to opine on strategy and policy when our nation faces existential challenges, today. We are workhorses, not showhorses.

You are always learning. Nobody has all the answers, and the world is ever-evolving, so we must be adaptive. We bring the best practices available from all domains to meet the challenge.

You believe in team. Our team grows together, supports one another, and elevates our shared successes. We are more effective together.

About the Role:

As a Hazel full stack engineer, you will be at the helm of architecting and building Hazel’s platform. You will work closely with Hazel’s customers to identify pain points to prioritize the most impactful features. You will build new features every week and be faced with many challenging technical problems. You will help define team norms, operating principles, team culture, and more. Most importantly, you join the tip of the spear in delivering effective and secure AI for the public sector.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:

• Define, iterate, and execute on projects contributing to Hazel’s product roadmap to further accelerate customer procurement workflows
• Identify areas for process and technical improvements, and take the initiative to enhance engineering processes and structures
• Collaborate with colleagues, customers, and partners to understand key tactical and strategic priorities and deliver innovative, impactful solutions
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet rigorous standards of quality, performance, and security

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience as a full stack engineer or similar role
• Proven experience with the technologies in our Tech Stack, which includes
  • Typescript
  • Node.js
  • React/Next.js
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL/Supabase
  • AWS & Vercel
  • Cursor
  • Git
  • Docker
• Strong technical writing abilities to support user training, product documentation, and proposal writing
• Excitement about bringing innovation to the public sector
• Continuous drive towards learning and personal development
• Travel up to 25% to co-locate with the team in New York/Boston or onsite to customer locations in the U.S.
• U.S. Citizen, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. government-issued security clearance

Nice to Have Experience:

• Has worked at a startup or startup-like environment
• Building or contributing to “from scratch” applications that had many users
• Mapping business priorities to technical priorities and vice versa
• Working with or adjacent to the public sector
• Presenting to senior stakeholders (e.g., C-suite, elected official, general officer) in a professional context

Base Salary Range:

$120K - $200K USD | 0.5% - 1% Company Equity

• Estimate provided is dependent on a wide range of factors, including years of experience, relevant knowledge, and security clearance
• Generous health & 401(k) benefits
• Relocation Assistance
• Unlimited PTO

Hazel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other federally protected class.

Hazel’s name is inspired by Hazel Ying Lee, one of the first Chinese-American women to serve in the U.S. military as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. All Americans can break barriers, dare to innovate, and be the change.