# AI Platform Engineer at Applied Compute

- Company: Applied Compute
- What the company does: Specific Intelligence for Your Business. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.appliedcompute.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/0e93c8ac-446e-4e87-ba94-bfd4de05c333
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-ai-platform-engineer/

## About the role

As an AI platform engineer, you'll build the products, interfaces, and tools that accelerate frontier research for Applied Compute’s customers. You'll own the full stack of our application platform including the system that powers collaborative human-AI workspaces, the backend workflows that orchestrate sandboxed agent sessions, and the SDK that gives engineers control and visibility over the entire agent development lifecycle.

## What they're looking for

- Strong full-stack engineering skills with experience shipping production web applications
- Deep familiarity with LLM-powered applications and agent architectures
- Extremely creative and open to prototyping: you love putting together a demo and showing people what's possible
- You care deeply about what the user actually experiences and think carefully about who the user is before you build
- Experience with both real-time and asynchronous systems
- Ability to build and iterate on polished, functional applications quickly with high engineering craft

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