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).