Founding Engineer - Lead Reliable AI Agent Systems in NYC

Applied Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Significant equity

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

Relocation support

Fancy lunches and snacks

Job summary

An innovative tech company in New York City is seeking a candidate to own core agent systems from conception to production, ensuring reliability and efficiency. The ideal applicant has experience with end-to-end system shipping and is passionate about using metrics to evaluate success. This role emphasizes in-person collaboration and offers ownership in defining the engineering culture of a rapidly growing organization. Competitive salary and benefits, including equity and unlimited PTO, are provided.

Qualifications

• Have shipped production systems end-to-end and love owning outcomes.
• Care deeply about reliability; tests, evals, and metrics matter.
• Are product-minded and aim to build the simplest effective solution.
• Prefer in-person collaboration and fast decision cycles.
• Want to help define the engineering culture at a rapidly scaling company.

Responsibilities

• Own core agent systems from idea to production: orchestration, planning, and evaluation.
• Architect for reliability by designing loops and guardrails for edge cases.
• Run experiments, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly.
• Collaborate with founders to set product direction and culture.
• Establish blueprint standards for design decisions and code style.

Skills

Production systems

Reliability focus

Product-mindedness

In-person collaboration

Engineering culture definition

Tools

Python

Go

React

Clickhouse

K8s

Bazel

Postgres

GCP

Modal

Job description

An innovative tech company in New York City is seeking a candidate to own core agent systems from conception to production, ensuring reliability and efficiency. The ideal applicant has experience with end-to-end system shipping and is passionate about using metrics to evaluate success. This role emphasizes in-person collaboration and offers ownership in defining the engineering culture of a rapidly growing organization. Competitive salary and benefits, including equity and unlimited PTO, are provided.