We've seen hiring break from both sides.

Superposition was co-founded in 2025 in New York by Edmund Cuthbert, a career recruiter, and Xiang Li, a YC-backed engineer. We'd both seen hiring break from opposite sides — and built the company we'd been waiting for.

Superposition's office at Betaworks in Meatpacking, New York

Betaworks — Meatpacking, New York

The Story

Edmund spent a decade inside recruiting before he gave up on recruiters.

He placed engineer #1 at Brex, and hundreds more at early-stage startups. Product lead at Omnipresent through its $120M Series B and Deel acquisition. Everywhere the same pattern — brilliant candidates lost to slow process and volume-over-fit incentives.

So he learned to code and built the first version of Superposition himself.

Li spent years watching hiring break from the engineer's side.

He's been building startups since college. On the founding team at Vitable Health (YC S20), he helped take the company from pre-seed to Series A and past $10M ARR, serving hundreds of thousands of patients — all while watching hiring break from the engineer's seat: noisy inbound, strong candidates lost to process, recruiters spamming people who'd never thrive.

His own thesis: repetitive intellectual work should be automated. When Edmund's agent reached him, it wasn't a pitch — it was the company he'd been waiting to co-found.

We're not building a copilot, a LinkedIn 2.0, or a better recruiter.

We're building an agent better at finding talent than any human in history.

The Team

Edmund

CEO

I'm from a family of serial immigrants. My son is the 3rd successive generation of the family to be born on a different continent to his father. A singular anecdote to help you understand me: when I was 8 I memorized the periodic table and performed it set to music for my entire school.

I started a career in recruitment immediately after my double major in Physics and Philosophy. I loved science but I love selling more, and recruitment is the hardest form of sales because your product has an opinion. I recruited hundreds of engineers for startups, including hiring engineer #1 at Brex.

I learned to code, thinking it would make me a 10x recruiter (I was wrong), then pivoted into Product Management at Omnipresent ($120M Series B, lost to, and eventually acquired by, Deel). I built the MVP of Superposition, and used it to recruit Li. I am motivated to build a recruiter that is not just better than me, but is better than the summation of all recruiters in history.

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Li

CTO

I've been building startups since college. Most notably on the founding team of Vitable Health (YC S20), where we took the company from pre-seed to Series A, past $10M ARR, and hundreds of thousands of patients.

In an early stage startup, 'engineering' turns into 'whatever it takes'. I got my first real taste of how broken technical hiring is from the inside, sifting through noisy inbound, rejecting great people because the process couldn't handle nuance, and watching recruiters spam candidates who'd never thrive in our environment.

I believe repetitive intellectual work should be automated. When Edmund reached out with an eerily on-point message written by an agent, it stopped feeling like a pitch and started feeling inevitable. Superposition is my bet that we can delete bullshit jobs in hiring and maximize meaningful work for more people.

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