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We’re looking for founding AI engineers to help shape the architecture, the product, and the engineering culture, with the ownership and equity that implies.\n\nThe role\n\nEngineers at Corridor are not feature builders. You’ll work on some of the hardest open problems in applied AI: how do you build agents that run a full broker analysis across messy, real-world inputs — where there are many valid paths and no single right answer — reliably enough that an operator, and the families who depend on the outcome, can trust the result? You’ll own problems end to end, from the data model to the end-user experience, on systems where being wrong has real consequences for real people.\n\nWhat you’ll build\n\nFrontier agentic systems that execute broker analyses and operational tasks in high-degree-of-freedom environments under strict reliability requirements.\n\nAgents and tools that let operators serve orders of magnitude more clients while delivering higher-quality service to each — quality enforced through guardrails and guarantees, not hope.\n\nApplications that give individual employees unprecedented access to the information they need to choose and use their benefits well.\n\nOrchestration and infrastructure that coordinates agents across complex workflows and scales reliably to millions of users.\n\nExceptional candidates have demonstrated\n\nTechnical ownership. 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