Founding Engineer

Applied Labs

• $150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Proven track record of shipping production systems end-to-end
  • Strong understanding of reliability and performance metrics
  • Experience with agent-based models and orchestration
  • Familiarity with Python, Go, and cloud technologies

Responsibilities

  • Own core agent systems from concept to deployment
  • Design reliable agent loops and guardrails for real-world scenarios
  • Conduct rapid experiments, analyze results, and iterate on designs
  • Collaborate closely with founders to influence product direction and culture
  • Establish standards for design and code that will guide future hires

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families
  • Relocation assistance to New York City
  • Daily lunches and a variety of snacks and beverages available
  • Opportunity for significant equity in a rapidly growing company
Full Job Description
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.

Apply
  • Send a short note and your LinkedIn/GitHub to (or apply on our site).

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