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Founding Engineer

About us

  • At Applied Labs, we’re building the platform for reliable AI agents that automate complex work. We are primarily an in-person company based in New York City.

Why this could be a fit

  • Trajectory: 10x growth in 4 months; strong momentum.

  • Ownership: High autonomy; own systems end‑to‑end.

  • Challenging problems: Design novel, reliable solutions for complex tasks.

  • Team quality: Early team from Harvard, MIT, Gemini, Meta.

What you’ll do

  • Own core agent systems from idea to production: orchestration, tool‑use, planning, memory, evals.

  • Architect for reliability: design agent loops and guardrails that hold up under real‑world edge cases.

  • Ship fast, learn faster: run experiments, measure outcomes, iterate weekly.

  • Collaborate tightly with the founders in NYC to set product direction, quality bars, and engineering culture.

  • Set the blueprint: your design decisions, documents, and code style become the standard for future hires.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have shipped production systems end‑to‑end and love owning outcomes.

  • Care deeply about reliability, not just demos - tests, evals, and metrics matter to you.

  • Are product‑minded: you ask “what does the user need?” and then build the simplest thing that works.

  • Prefer in‑person collaboration and fast decision cycles.

  • Want to help define the engineering culture at a company that’s scaling quickly.

Our tools

  • We currently build with Python, Next.js, Clickhouse, K8s, Postgres, GCP, Modal

  • We hire for ability, not checklists.

Compensation & benefits

  • Competitive salary + significant equity

  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family

  • Fancy lunches (think Nubiani), as well as snacks, coffee, or boba that always hit the spot

  • Relocation support to NYC if needed.

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