Technical Co-Founder, AI Workplace | Location Not Specified

Khadijat Rani is seeking a Technical Co-Founder to lead the technical direction and build Apt, an AI-native workplace designed to assess and develop professional capabilities through real work.

About Apt

Apt creates a realistic simulated organization where people tackle real-world problems alongside AI coworkers. Rather than relying on claims made on a résumé, Apt captures how people reason, collaborate, make decisions, adapt, and execute—and turns that work into verifiable evidence of capability.

What You’ll Own

• Own Apt’s technical direction and execution from concept to launch.
• Design and build the AI-native workplace architecture.
• Create the persistent simulated organization and its AI coworkers.
• Develop the capability and evidence layer that captures how people work.
• Build workflows that adapt to different professional roles.
• Design infrastructure for collaboration between people and AI agents.
• Deliver an MVP that real users can interact with within weeks.
• Make key decisions about AI models, agents, memory, evaluation, data, and infrastructure.
• Guide Apt’s long-term technical direction and vision.

Who We’re Looking For

You want to own a substantial technical challenge alongside Apt’s founder. You are comfortable with ambiguity, building from first principles, making trade-offs, and shipping before everything is perfect.

Relevant experience may include full-stack engineering, AI and LLM applications, agentic systems, backend or platform architecture, databases and APIs, evaluation and observability systems, or product engineering. You do not need every skill listed; strong technical judgment, clear thinking, and a desire to build from zero matter most.

The Opportunity

This is a founding-team opportunity, not an employee role presented as one. You will help shape and build Apt from the ground up. The source posting does not specify compensation, employment classification, or location.

About the Founder

Apt’s founder is a long-term operator who has run multiple SMEs since 2012 and is now building Apt.

Location: Not specified. The role is not listed as remote-eligible.