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, Go, 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 hits the spot

- Relocation support to NYC if needed.

Apply

- Send a short note and your LinkedIn/GitHub to careers@appliedlabs.com (or apply on our site).