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Founding AI Agent Engineer

Allus AI · Cupertino, CA, US / Atlanta, GA, US / Remote (CA, US; GA, US) · Remote

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About Allus AI

Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to help build the core software systems powering the platform. This role sits at the intersection of agentic workflows, product engineering, developer infrastructure, and AI-native user experience. We’re backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Blast, Transpose, 007 Venture Partners, K50, and Ponderosa.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building production software systems
  • Strong backend engineering skills, including APIs, data pipelines, and system design
  • Experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications or agentic product workflows
  • Strong understanding of prompt design, tool use, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation techniques
  • Ability to move quickly from prototype to production
  • Strong product intuition and desire to build user-facing AI experiences
More about this role

We are building an AI-native platform for real-world vision workflows, combining vision intelligence and modern agentic software systems. Our goal is to make it dramatically easier for users to go from a problem statement and example data to a reliable production workflow.

We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to help build the core software systems powering the platform. This role sits at the intersection of agentic workflows, product engineering, developer infrastructure, and AI-native user experience. We’re backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Blast, Transpose, 007 Venture Partners, K50, and Ponderosa.

  • Own the architecture and development of core AI-native software systems across the platform
  • Build agentic workflows that turn user requirements and example inputs into structured, multi-step product workflows
  • Design systems for orchestration, tool use, task planning, state management, and workflow reliability
  • Build software that supports data intake, review loops, human feedback, and iterative task refinement
  • Develop infrastructure for prompt orchestration, memory, retrieval, and contextual personalization
  • Build internal tools and user-facing...

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