The General Intelligence Company of New York · 5 months ago
Applied AI Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$185K/yr - $250K/yr
2+ years expThe General Intelligence Company is focused on building highly-capable autonomous agents for startups, aiming to enable one-person billion-dollar companies. They are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to prototype, evaluate, and apply cutting-edge AI techniques, working closely with engineering and product teams to enhance agent capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business Process Automation (BPA)Information Technology
Responsibilities
You'll be directly working on enabling AI agents to run companies without human oversight
Design and run experiments to evaluate new agent architectures, prompting strategies, and tool-use approaches
Build quick prototypes that demonstrate step-changes in agent capability and reliability
Work directly with engineers to productionize successful research in a fast, iterative cycle
Develop internal benchmarks and tooling to measure agent performance, hallucination rate, and task success
Keep us at the bleeding edge by surveying literature, reproducing important papers, and sharing insights with the team
Post your findings online from time to time
Translate our core principles into your work:
Cycle time is key: you ship quickly and iterate
Quality matters: your work stands on its own
No backlogs: build what’s needed, when it’s needed
FITFO: you figure things out independently
Ownership mindset: you think and act like an owner
Qualification
Required
You possess 2+ years of engineering or applied machine learning experience
You have an understanding of LLM product engineering, RAG, and agent architectures
You follow current AI trends with a deep curiosity
You're interested in memory systems for agents
You're educated or experienced in computer science, cognitive science, or engineering
You possess strong python skills and are familiar with modern ML libraries
You are comfortable reading papers put out by AI labs and research institutions
You thrive in high-agency environments and take initiative
Live in or are willing to move to New York City
You must be authorized to live in the united states
Company
The General Intelligence Company of New York
The General Intelligence Company is building highly-capable ai agents to run entire businesses autonomously.
2-10 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$8.7MKey Investors
Union Square Ventures
2025-10-31Seed· $8.7M
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