As an Applied AI Engineer, you are a one-person product team embedded directly into a core business function.
You will rely on your empathy and judgment to identify friction, and you will use modern AI tooling to build, code, and deploy the automations end-to-end.
You automate your own life for fun, use AI agents as an extension of your own brain, and get a genuine dopamine hit from turning slow, manual processes into seamless, AI-driven workflows.

3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, including building and deploying production applications
1+ year of hands-on experience building multimodal LLM-powered applications that run in production
AI agents, agentic workflows, or LLM-integrated tools (not just prompt experimentation)
Early adopter of AI-driven engineering
Claude Code launched in May 2025. We'd love to write "5+ years of experience with AI terminal agents" here, but the tech is barely a year old. So instead: you were there from day one. You didn't wait for a tutorial
you installed the CLI, broke things, and figured it out. If you remember when MCP had no docs, we are impressed.
Demonstrated ability to take a project from idea to deployed product independently

Applied AI Engineer

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