Who We Are
We build Specific Intelligence for the enterprise: agents that continuously learn from a company's processes, data, expertise, and goals. Today, there's a massive gap between what AI models can do in isolation and what they reliably do inside real businesses; these systems fail because they don't adapt to feedback. We're building the continual learning layer: a platform that captures context, memory, and decision traces across the enterprise, providing an environment where specialized agents learn how to do real work.
Why we're excited:We get to work at a rare intersection. Our product team builds the platform powering a new generation of digital coworkers. Our research team pushes the frontier of post-training and reinforcement learning to create new product experiences. Our applied research engineers sit side-by-side with customers as they ship models into production. This combination of strong product, deep research, and boots on the ground is what we believe it takes to bring AI to the enterprise. We are product-led, research-enabled, and forward-deployed.
Our Team: We are a team of engineers, researchers, and operators. Many of us are former founders. We've built RL infrastructure at OpenAI, data foundations at Scale AI, and systems at Together, Two Sigma, and Watershed. We work with F50 customers in addition to DoorDash, Mercor, and Cognition. We’re fortunate to be backed by Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux, and others.
Who Thrives Here: We're looking for people who are excited about applying novel research and complex systems to real-world problems. You should be comfortable navigating unfamiliar environments quickly, whether that's a new codebase, a new customer's data architecture, or a problem domain you've never seen before. You should also genuinely enjoy working with customers: listening, empathizing, and understanding how work actually gets done in their organizations. Former founders, people who've built a lot of side projects, or anyone who's shown they can own something end-to-end, tend to do well here.
The Role
As a forward deployed engineer, you'll work directly with customers to deploy and integrate our platform into their environments, building the infrastructure and tooling that turns research into production systems. You'll own the customer engagements end-to-end. This includes architecting environments, building large-scale data pipelines, creating evaluation frameworks for model training, and ensuring our platform delivers value at scale.
What You'll Do
Deploy and integrate our platform within customer environments end-to-end
Build environment simulations, data capture pipelines, and tooling for model training and evaluation
Create applications and tooling to accelerate customer engagements
Mock out and orchestrate customer-specific environments for model training and deployment
Work with applied researchers to ensure training environments and data flows are production-ready
Surface engineering requirements from customer engagements and contribute them back to the core platform
What We're Looking For
Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to build polished, functional applications quickly
Experience building full-stack applications, data analysis tooling, or developer-facing products
Ability to use large scale data and LLMs to solve valuable business problems
Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with high autonomy
Strong Candidates Also Have
Background working with LLMs or ML systems in production
Previous experience as a founder or early engineer at a zero-to-one company
Demonstrated engineering creativity through side projects, open source contributions, or shipped products
Logistics
This role is based in San Francisco. We work in-person at our office in the Design District. We offer competitive compensation and equity, generous health benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, daily lunches and dinners, transportation, and relocation support. 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 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.