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Founding AI Agent Engineer
Location: Cupertino, CA, US / Atlanta, GA, US / Remote (CA, US; GA, US) Job type: Full-time Role: Engineering, Full stack Experience: 3+ years Visa: Will sponsor Salary and Equity: $100K - $200K • 0.30% - 1.00% Skills: Node.js, Python, React, Redis, Rust, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, Software Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
About the role
Allus AI is building the next generation of vision intelligence systems. We are building an AI-native platform for real-world vision workflows, combining vision intelligence and modern agentic software systems. Our goal is to make it dramatically easier for users to go from a problem statement and example data to a reliable production workflow. We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to help build the core software systems powering the platform. This role sits at the intersection of agentic workflows, product engineering, developer infrastructure, and AI-native user experience. We’re backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Blast, Transpose, 007 Venture Partners, K50, and Ponderosa.
What you’ll do
- Own the architecture and development of core AI-native software systems across the platform
- Build agentic workflows that turn user requirements and example inputs into structured, multi-step product workflows
- Design systems for orchestration, tool use, task planning, state management, and workflow reliability
- Build software that supports data intake, review loops, human feedback, and iterative task refinement
- Develop infrastructure for prompt orchestration, memory, retrieval, and contextual personalization
- Build internal tools and user-facing product features powered by LLMs and agents
- Design evaluation and monitoring systems for workflow quality, reliability, latency, and production readiness
- Improve developer velocity through strong abstractions, automation, and AI-native tooling
- Rapidly prototype and ship new AI-driven product capabilities
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of experience building production software systems
- Strong backend engineering skills, including APIs, data pipelines, and system design
- Experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications or agentic product workflows
- Strong understanding of prompt design, tool use, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation techniques
- Ability to move quickly from prototype to production
- Strong product intuition and desire to build user-facing AI experiences
- Comfort working across multiple parts of the stack with high ownership
Relevant experience
- Full-stack software development
- Agent orchestration systems and multi-step workflow design
- RAG systems (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), embeddings pipelines or retrieval architectures
- Human-in-the-loop systems and review workflows
- Evaluation systems, observability, and production monitoring
- Internal platforms, developer tooling and automation systems
AI-native engineering
We are building an AI-native company and expect engineers to actively use modern AI tools in their daily workflow. Strong candidates should already be comfortable using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code,...