{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"efefbcd1df430a1b862b7120","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/efefbcd1df430a1b862b7120","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/efefbcd1df430a1b862b7120","title":"Applied AI Engineer","description":"ABOUT ORPEX\n\nThe next generation of service companies won't scale through headcount. They'll be built by tiny teams orchestrating AI workforces with 1000x the output. Orpex is building the infrastructure they run on: agentic workforce, company brain, human trust layer, one cockpit to run the business.\n\nWe just raised an oversubscribed 2.5M angel round in 7 days and are moving at rapid speed.\n\nAPPLIED AI ENGINEER\n\nEveryone is building agents. Almost nobody is building agents a real company can run on.\n\nYou own the agentic infrastructure of Orpex: the workforce that executes, the company brain that remembers, and the evals that prove it works. Agents that run the same task for the fiftieth time as reliably as the first. Memory that holds months of client context. Approvals that pull a human in at exactly the right moment. You decide how agents plan, remember, fail and recover. You'll ship to production in your first week.\n\nWHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nAgents in production. You've shipped LLM agents that ran unattended for real users. You know the model is the easy part.\n\nEvals you trusted. You've built eval harnesses that people actually used to decide what ships.\n\nMemory and context. Retrieval that works on messy operational data, not demo RAG.\n\nIntensity. You force things into existence. Bonus if you've built agent tooling in the open or founded something.\n\nYOUR FIRST MONTH\n\nShip from day one. An agent running for a real company in week one.\n\nOwn the loop. Build it, measure it, break it, fix it, make it learn.\n\nDo what needs doing. Infra, orchestration, customer calls, hiring the next engineer.\n\nWE OFFER\n\n$150–250K USD base + meaningful early equity\n\nSan Francisco, in person. Relocation and visa sponsorship covered.\n\nPace and purpose. Small team, high standards, high trust, no politics.\n\nPROCESS\n\n30-min intro call\n\n90-min deep dive on an agent system you shipped: what broke, what you measured\n\nTechnical task\n\nOffer the same week\n\nIf you want to build something truly generational and are ready to make it your life's mission, this is for you!","company":"Orpex","rawCompany":"orpex","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-16T10:12:26.847Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541990","title":"All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services","slug":"all-other-professional-scientific-and-technical-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Applied AI Engineer","description":"ABOUT ORPEX\n\nThe next generation of service companies won't scale through headcount. 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