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About the role
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
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Trajectory: 10x growth in 4 months; strong momentum.
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Ownership: High autonomy; own systems end‑to‑end.
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Challenging problems: Design novel, reliable solutions for complex tasks.
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Team quality: Early team from Harvard, MIT, Gemini, Meta.
What you’ll do
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Own core agent systems from idea to production: orchestration, tool‑use, planning, memory, evals.
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Architect for reliability: design agent loops and guardrails that hold up under real‑world edge cases.
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Ship fast, learn faster: run experiments, measure outcomes, iterate weekly.
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Collaborate tightly with the founders in NYC to set product direction, quality bars, and engineering culture.
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Set the blueprint: your design decisions, documents, and code style become the standard for future hires.
You might thrive in this role if you
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Have shipped production systems end‑to‑end and love owning outcomes.
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Care deeply about reliability, not just demos - tests, evals, and metrics matter to you.
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Are product‑minded: you ask “what does the user need?” and then build the simplest thing that works.
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Prefer in‑person collaboration and fast decision cycles.
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Want to help define the engineering culture at a company that’s scaling quickly.
Our tools
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We currently build with Python, Go, React, Clickhouse, K8s, Bazel, Postgres, GCP, Modal
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We hire for ability, not checklists.
Compensation & benefits
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Competitive salary + significant equity
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Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
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Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
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Fancy lunches (think Nubiani), as well as snacks, coffee, or boba that always hits the spot
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Relocation support to NYC if needed.
Apply
- Send a short note and your LinkedIn/GitHub to careers@appliedlabs.com (or apply on our site).
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