Founding Engineer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 160 - 300

Posted on: 15-10-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About us

At Applied Labs were 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 endtoend.
Challenging problems: Design novel reliable solutions for complex tasks.
Team quality: Early team from Harvard MIT Gemini Meta.

What youll do

Own core agent systems from idea to production: orchestration tooluse planning memory evals.
Architect for reliability: design agent loops and guardrails that hold up under realworld 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 endtoend and love owning outcomes.
Care deeply about reliability not just demos - tests evals and metrics matter to you.
Are productminded: you ask what does the user need and then build the simplest thing that works.
Prefer inperson collaboration and fast decision cycles.
Want to help define the engineering culture at a company thats scaling quickly.

Our tools

We currently build with Python React Clickhouse K8s Bazel 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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About usAt Applied Labs were 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 fitTrajectory: 10x growth in 4 months; strong momentum.Ownership: High autonomy; own systems endtoend.Challenging pro...