About the job
About Us
At Applied Labs, we are pioneering a platform for dependable AI agents designed to automate intricate tasks. Our team thrives on collaboration in our New York City office.
Why You Should Consider This Role
Growth Potential: Experience rapid 10x growth within just 4 months, showcasing our strong momentum.
Ownership: Enjoy a high degree of autonomy while taking charge of systems from inception to completion.
Complex Challenges: Engage in designing innovative, reliable solutions for multifaceted tasks.
Team Excellence: Join an early-stage team comprised of talent from Harvard, MIT, Gemini, and Meta.
Your Responsibilities
Manage Core Systems: Oversee agent systems from concept to deployment, including orchestration, tool usage, planning, memory management, and evaluations.
Architect for Reliability: Develop agent loops and guardrails capable of withstanding real-world challenges.
Rapid Iteration: Conduct experiments, measure results, and iterate on a weekly basis.
Close Collaboration: Work closely with founders in NYC to set product vision, quality standards, and engineering culture.
Establish Standards: Your design choices, documentation, and coding style will set a benchmark for future team members.
You May Excel in This Role If You:
Have successfully deployed end-to-end production systems and take pride in delivering results.
Value reliability over mere demonstrations; testing, evaluations, and metrics are crucial to you.
Possess a product-oriented mindset, consistently asking, “What does the user need?” and developing the simplest effective solutions.
Prefer in-person teamwork and expedited decision-making processes.
Aspire to shape the engineering culture of a rapidly growing company.
Your Tools
Currently utilizing technologies like Python, Go, React, Clickhouse, K8s, Bazel, Postgres, GCP, and Modal.
We prioritize skills over checklists.

