Founding Engineer

Job Title

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.