Applied AI Engineer (Full Time/SFO,CA/Onsite/USA)

Job Title: Applied AI EngineerLocation: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

The company: a days-old AI agents lab, founding team from Tesla AI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA Research, Physical Intelligence, Adept and Jane Street.
RequirementsExceptional engineering ability paired with strong product judgment and tasteTrack record of building successful user-facing products, ideally 0→1Strong intuition for turning frontier AI capabilities into simple, useful productsComfortable across product, engineering, models, and infrastructure, not a narrow specialist
Execution and OwnershipEvidence of exceptional ownership/excellence: founding a company, owning a major product, or shipping consequential work at a frontier technology companyHigh agency, ambition, speed, and a steep learning curveFounder mentality: resourceful, highly accountable, motivated by building from the ground upIntense, high-ownership; comfortable in a days-old, figure-it-out-yourself environment
Background~3–6 years; strong applied/product engineers welcome (open to exceptional outliers; senior leads welcome above)Frontier-company product experience or a successful own-startup / exit is a strong signal"Spike" backgrounds a plus: top of a category (chess, sports, IOI/IMO, competitive), quants
Nice-to-HaveAgentic-product pedigree (Cursor/Anysphere, Cognition, Decagon, Sierra, Adept, Applied Compute, Trajectory)0→1 founder / early-team experienceOlympiad (IOI/IMO), quant, or world-class competitive background
Who Will Thrive HereA product-obsessed full-stack builder who wants to own 0→1 agent products at a days-old companySomeone who turns frontier capability into simple, reliable experiences users loveHigh-intensity, high-autonomy, allergic to hand-holding and narrow lanesFounder-minded, mission-aligned with the long-horizon-agents visionA "spike" who's been world-class at somethingProcess ends with a paid 2 to 3 day work trial in SF, expenses covered. Fully in office. Visa sponsorship available; from outside the US the O-1 is the realistic route.