# Applied AI Engineer at Wordware

- Company: Wordware (YC S24)
- What the company does: AI agents you can rely on. Backed by Y Combinator and Felicis.
- Company website: https://wordware.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wordware/jobs/ngciYZN-applied-ai-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wordware-applied-ai-engineer/

## About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building, refining, and scaling the agent systems inside Sauna, from architecture to evals to deployment. We care about what works in production: fast response times, predictable behavior, traceability, and uptime.

## What they're looking for

- You write production-grade code and can work across systems without needing a spec
- You'd rather ship than polish forever
- Shipped agents that live in the wild, used by customers, not just internal demos
- Familiarity with LLM ops, tracing, observability, and failure handling
- You've been a founder or early engineer, and it shows in the bar you hold your own work to

Tags: Engineering