Applied AI Engineer na The General Intelligence Company of New York

At General Intelligence Company (GIC), we’re building highly-capable autonomous agents for startups. Our goal is to enable the one-person, one-billion-dollar company. Our agents don’t just automate workflows - they replace them. You’ll work closely with our engineering and product teams to turn state-of-the-art ideas into real capabilities for our users.

What You’ll Do:

• 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, Quality matters, No backlogs, FITFO, Ownership mindset.

Who you are:

• 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.

Our stack:

• Python, Langgraph, FastAPI, Typescript.
• Cursor for code editing and every top frontier model for code generation.
• Closed source frontier and open source LLMs via hosted providers.

What's different about GIC?:

• No bureaucracy.
• Real ownership.
• Small, elite team.
• Craft matters.

Other Requirements:

• Live in or are willing to move to New York City.
• You must be authorized to live in the United States.