About
Saad Jamal is co-founder of Antigen. He previously worked on machine learning infrastructure at Tesla Autopilot, developed an ML compiler framework at Nuro, and trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani. He also clerked at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and attended UChicago Law School.
Founder at AntigenYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Saad went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Antigen's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Saad can intro founders to Antigen's investors below.
Antigen's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Antigen
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Abdullah NaumanFounder
Experience
- AntigenCo-Founder // CEOcurrent2025 β presentSan Francisco, CA
- Essential AIMember of Technical Staff2025San Francisco, California, United States
- NuroML Compiler Engineer2024Mountain View, California, United States
- TeslaAutopilot Engineer2021 β 2024Palo Alto, California, United States
- HashiCorpSoftware Engineering Intern2021San Francisco Bay Area
- NASA Ames Research CenterResearch Scholar2020 β 2021Mountain View, California
- American Red CrossOpen Source Developer2020 β 2021
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Academic Student Employee2020 β 2021
- California Partners For Advanced Transportation TechnologyResearch Assistant2020
Skills & more
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate β HashiCorp
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner β Amazon Web Services (AWS)
From Saad's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Saad Jamal?
- Saad Jamal is co-founder of Antigen. He previously worked on machine learning infrastructure at Tesla Autopilot, developed an ML compiler framework at Nuro, and trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani. He also clerked at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and attended UChicago Law School.
- Where does Saad Jamal work?
- Saad Jamal is Founder of Antigen.
- What companies did Saad Jamal found?
- Saad Jamal founded Antigen.
- Where did Saad Jamal go to school?
- Saad Jamal studied at University of Chicago Law School (Doctor of Law - JD); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Y Combinator.
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University of California, Berkeley mafia538
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University of Chicago Law School mafia7
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Same school
Also attended University of Chicago Law School37
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Shared employers
Also worked at Antigen2
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Also worked at Nuro14
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Also worked at Tesla206
Steve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesJoe GebbiaCo-founder of AirbnbJustin LiuVice President at Sapphire VenturesAndrew VogeleyVice President at Sapphire VenturesErica WaichmanHead of People & Community at Canvas VenturesBen FawEntrepreneur-in-Residence at Context Ventures
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Also worked at NASA Ames Research Center48
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