Saffron

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.

Founders

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  Robert Chondro· Founder / CEO

  CEO Studied math & computer science @ MIT Building AI-native technical assessments to vet/hire SWEs

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  Kazuma Choji· Founder

  Building software to test how well swe's code with ai _______ previously: cs/math @ Harvey Mudd High school NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV author

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  Jerry Yao· Founder

  Building AI-native technical assessments Prev. CS + math @ Stanford

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Product launches · 1 launch

• Saffron: Find Your Next 10x Engineer ↗▲ 33Apr 27, 2026

  Companies use Saffron to evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code.

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