About the job
WHO WE ARE
At Applied Compute, we are pioneering the development of Specific Intelligence tailored for enterprises. Our innovative agents continuously learn from a company’s processes, data, expertise, and goals, creating a dynamic learning layer that captures context, memory, and decision traces. This empowers specialized agents to tackle real-world tasks effectively.
Why We're Excited: We operate at a unique convergence of technology and practical application. Our product team is responsible for developing the platform that drives a new generation of digital coworkers. Simultaneously, our research team explores the cutting-edge of post-training and reinforcement learning to craft exceptional product experiences. Our applied research engineers work closely with clients to deploy agents into production, ensuring that we combine strong product development with deep research and hands-on implementation.
Our Team: We are a diverse group of engineers, researchers, and operators, many of whom are former founders. Our backgrounds include building reinforcement learning infrastructure at OpenAI, data foundations at Scale AI, and operational systems at other leading tech companies. We are proud to collaborate with Fortune 50 customers and are supported by top-tier investors like Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux, and Greenoaks.
Who Thrives Here: We seek individuals who are passionate about applying innovative research and complex systems to solve real-world challenges. Candidates should be adept at quickly navigating unfamiliar environments—be it a new codebase, a client's data architecture, or a novel problem domain. Our team values empathy and understanding in our customer interactions, so those who enjoy listening, learning, and delivering results tend to excel here.
THE ROLE
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will engage directly with customers to deploy and integrate our platform within their technical environments. You will be responsible for constructing the infrastructure and tools necessary to transform research into production systems. This role requires ownership of customer engagements from start to finish, including architecting environments, building large-scale data pipelines, creating evaluation frameworks for model training, and ensuring our platform delivers scalable value.

