Founding Engineer

At Applied Labs, we are building the platform for reliable AI agents that automate complex work. As a Founding Engineer, you will own core agent systems from idea to production, including orchestration, tool-use, planning, memory, and evals. You will architect for reliability, design agent loops and guardrails, ship fast, collaborate tightly with founders in NYC, and set the blueprint for future hires. The role offers high autonomy, challenging problems, and a chance to define engineering at a 4

You might thrive in this role if you have shipped production systems end-to-end and love owning outcomes, care deeply about reliability including tests, evals, and metrics, are product-minded and build the simplest thing that works, prefer in-person collaboration and fast decision cycles, and want to help define the engineering culture at a quickly scaling company. We hire for ability, not checklists.