Saffron
Helping your company find 10x engineers.
About
Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code.
The way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. Saffron gives teams full visibility into how candidates use AI agents to build, debug, and ship real features on an actual codebase.
Saffron was founded by Robert Chondro (formerly MIT and Jane Street), Jerry Yao (Stanford and Jane Street), and Kazuma Choji (Harvey Mudd, published in NeurIPS and ICML), and is backed by Y Combinator (P26) and Afore Capital.
Topics
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Team size
- 3 employees
- YC batch
- Spring 2026
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Early stage
