We are not looking for people to fill roles. We are looking for people who are genuinely exceptional at what they do - engineers and technologists who are intellectually restless, technically rigorous, and motivated by the quality of the work itself.
We keep the team small deliberately. That means when we hire, the bar is high and the conversation is serious. We would rather wait for the right person than move fast and compromise.
If you have found most of your career too slow, too political, or too far from the work that actually matters - you might be exactly who we are looking for.
How we work
We are AI-native by design and in practice. That means we do not bolt AI onto existing processes - we start from what AI makes possible and build from there. Every architecture decision, every system we design, every product we ship reflects that.
No legacy. No technical debt inherited from decisions made a decade ago by people who have long since left. We started with a blank page and we intend to keep it that way.
We work in small, senior teams with real autonomy. There are no layers of approval between an idea and its execution. No endless meetings. No performative processes. No reporting for the sake of reporting. If you see a better way to do something, you say so and we listen. The best technical argument wins.
We move fast but we build carefully. We are not a feature factory. We care deeply about the foundations - the data architecture, the infrastructure, the systems that everything else depends on - because we are building for the long term.
We use the best tools available. We have no institutional attachment to legacy approaches. If something better exists, we use it.
What we offer
Hard, consequential, greenfield problems across a multi-industry operating environment that no other engineering lab in the region can replicate. You will own things. You will ship things. You will look back in five years and be able to point to foundations that are still standing.
No passengers. Everyone here is exceptional at what they do and expects the same of the people around them.
We are based in Ho Chi Minh City, which means your salary goes further than almost anywhere else in the world at this level. That is not an accident.
Extraordinary food, genuine warmth, low cost of living, and a pace of life that lets you think. Close enough to Singapore, Bangkok, and the rest of the region to never feel remote.
Open roles
We are currently building the founding team. We do not hire to a headcount plan - we hire when we find the right person.
If you are an exceptional engineer, architect, or technologist and this feels like your kind of place, we want to hear from you regardless of whether a specific role is listed below.
Roles will appear here as they open
Say hello
Send us a note at build@zeyalabs.ai. Tell us what you work on, what you care about, and what you are looking for. No CV required to start a conversation.
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