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Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$250,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build agentic infrastructure enabling AI agents to execute tasks reliably, retain long-term context, and manage human-in-the-loop interactions.

Role type

Founding Applied AI Engineer (Agentic Infrastructure)

Builds

Production-ready AI agent systems with memory, orchestration, and evaluation capabilities

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Agentic Systems / Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM agent development, Python (production systems), agent memory management, context retrieval, agent orchestration, failure recovery patterns, eval harness design

Preferred skills

Open-source agent tooling contributions, human-in-the-loop workflow implementation, founding/leading technical projects

Technologies

Python, LLM frameworks, orchestration tools

Responsibilities

Build core infrastructure for reliable agent execution, design memory systems for long-term context retention, develop trusted evaluation harnesses, own the full build-measure-fix loop for agent systems, ship systems to customers and iterate based on feedback

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC

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