Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Information Technology - Computer Software

Job Category: Information Technology

Role facts

• Domain: Production autonomous AI agents

• Work arrangement: San Francisco, California, United States; on-site

• Work authorization: Visa sponsorship available.

• Education: No explicit degree requirement in the public JD

• Equity: Meaningful Equity

About the Role

You'll own the agentic infrastructure at the company, the systems that let agents execute reliably, remember context over months, and know when to pull in a human. While everyone is building agents, almost nobody builds agents that actually run in production at scale. You'll ship to production in your first week and decide how agents plan, remember, fail, and recover.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain the core infrastructure that enables agents to execute tasks reliably, even after dozens of iterations.

• Design and implement memory systems that retain months of client context from messy operational data.

• Develop eval harnesses that teams actually trust to decide what ships to production.

• Own the full loop: build it, measure it, break it, fix it, and make it learn.

• Ship agent systems for real customers and iterate based on production feedback.

• Handle whatever needs doing, infrastructure, orchestration, customer collaboration, and hiring.

What We're Looking For

• Shipped LLM agents that ran unattended in production for real users; you understand that the model is the easy part.

• Built eval harnesses that people actually used to make shipping decisions.

• Experience with retrieval and memory systems that work on real, messy operational data rather than demo datasets.

• Strong Python proficiency and hands-on experience with agent orchestration and infrastructure.

• Track record of intensity and execution, you force things into existence; bonus if you've built agent tooling in the open or founded something.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive USD base + meaningful early equity.

• Visa Candidate Considered: Yes

• Relocation and visa sponsorship covered.

• Security Clearance Required: No

• Full-time

• Benefits - Partial

• Commission Compensation - No

• Bonus Eligible - No

• Overtime Eligible - No

• Interview Travel Reimbursed - No

Skills and Certifications [note: bold skills and certification are required]

Python

Agent orchestration

Retrieval/memory

Candidate Details

Seniority Level - Mid-Senior

Management Experience Required - No

Minimum Education - Other

Willingness to Travel - Never

Ideal Candidate

Target profile

3+ years target. Evidence in Python, Agent orchestration, Retrieval/memory, Evaluation harnesses, Production reliability.

Why this employer is a great company

Early-stage company building production AI agents. Hiring an Applied AI Engineer for the responsibilities described in this role. San Francisco, California, United States; on-site.