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Applied Labs (appliedlabs.ai)

Founding Engineer

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In-Office
New York, NY
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
New York, NY
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
As a Founding Engineer, you will own agent systems, architect for reliability, run fast experiments, collaborate with founders, and set engineering culture.
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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.

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Top Skills

Bazel
Clickhouse
GCP
Go
K8S
Modal
Postgres
Python
React
HQ

Applied Labs (appliedlabs.ai) New York, New York, USA Office

200 Park Ave S, New York, New York, United States, 10003 1503

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