Product Engineer

Applied Compute builds Specific Intelligence for enterprises, unlocking the knowledge inside a company to train custom models and deploy an in‑house agent workforce.

Today’s state‑of‑the‑art AI isn’t one‑size‑fits‑all—it’s a tailored system that continuously learns from a company’s processes, data, expertise, and goals. The same way companies compete today by having the best human workforce, the companies building for the future will compete by having the best agent workforce supporting their human bosses. We call this Specific Intelligence and we’re already building them today.

We are a small, talent‑dense team of engineers, researchers, and operators who have built some of the most influential AI systems in the world, including reinforcement learning infrastructure at OpenAI and data foundations at Scale AI, with additional experience from Together, Two Sigma, and Watershed.

We’re backed with $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux, Hanabi, Neo, Elad Gil, Victor Lazarte, Omri Casspi, and others. We work in‑person in San Francisco.

The Role

As a founding product engineer, you’ll be responsible for product ionizing frontier research that will revolutionize how enterprises interact with agents. You will design novel experiences that will become a daily driver of workflows within some of the world’s largest enterprises. Our frontier, custom‑trained models will enable fundamentally new product experiences, and we want to implement new interfaces to help people leverage them.

What You’ll Do

• Talk directly to enterprise customers to design product experiences that help automate common workflows

• Work with our researchers to product ionize our frontier models and training infrastructure

• Sprint with end‑to‑end ownership over the product, shipping new features into production with high velocity

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with the modern web development stack (Typescript, Python)

• A track record of having shipped software in production

• Desire to learn and work directly with customers

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Experience developing AI‑powered products with frontier model APIs

• Previous experience as a founder or early engineer at a startup in a zero‑to‑one role

• Published projects, open source contributions, or side projects that demonstrate technical creativity

Logistics

Location:

This role is based in San Francisco, California.

Benefits:
Applied Compute offers generous health benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, lunches and dinners at the office, and relocation support as needed. We work in‑person at a beautiful office in San Francisco’s Design District.

Visa sponsorship:
We sponsor visas. While we can’t guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you’re the right fit, we’re committed to working through the visa process with you.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. As set forth in Applied Compute’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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