Job Description

**About P-1 AI:**

We are building an engineering AGI. We founded P-1 AI with the conviction that
the greatest impact of artificial intelligence will be on the built world. Our
first product is Archie, an AI engineer capable of quantitative intuition over
physical product domains and engineering tool use. Archie initially performs
at the level of an entry-level design engineer but rapidly gets smarter and
more capable. We aim to put an Archie on every engineering team at every
industrial company on earth.

Our founding team includes the top minds in deep learning, model-based
engineering, and industries that are our customers. We closed a $23 million
seed round led by Radical Ventures that includes a number of other AI and
industrial luminaries (from OpenAI, DeepMind, etc.).

**About the role:**

We’re a small team tackling an ambitious problem. At the core of our solution
is an intelligent, agentic platform that acts as a tireless teammate which can
perform all of the same actions that human engineers can, from developing an
intuition about the company’s products and the physics at play in their
design, to accessing and using information systems, to decomposing performance
requirements and developing them into design solutions. Archie must be
scalable, responsive, and competent, and must also be deployable within the
corporate networks of our customers so that he can see their most valuable
information and do his job well.

Our Senior SWE for the Agentic AI Platform will design and implement solutions
for these challenges, which range from classic distributed systems,
integration, and security work, to robustly implementing advanced intelligence
features developed by our AI research team. Ownership comes by default, but as
Archie becomes more sophisticated we also have potential growth into technical
leadership for specific specialty areas.

This role is remote and you can be based anywhere in the US or Canada, where
you must have existing work authorization. You will be expected to travel to
our San Mateo office for co-working sessions approximately one week out of
every six. If you are already located in the Bay Area or are interested in
relocation, you are of course welcome to work out of our San Mateo office. Our
AI team is based in the San Mateo office, so there would be some benefit to
you being in-office at least part of the time.

**Why this role:**

This role is where AI meets reality. Every user that works with Archie will be
using features and capabilities that you have built, no matter the industry or
context.

**What you’ll do:**

* Work with our team to understand our Archie capability roadmap and decompose capabilities into technical development.
* Turn capability prototypes and PoCs from our AI research team into robust, scalable implementations.
* Diagnose and solve technical problems identified by our team or users.
* Develop and act on automated platform tests, including traditional software testing, agentic AI evals, and infrastructure.
* Improve Archie’s scalability and robustness through system architecture design and implementation.

**Who you are:**

* You’ve consistently taken technical ownership of production-grade software.
* You’re experienced with application development in Python.
* You’ve built and implemented data models and database interactions.
* You develop an obsession with understanding your users’ goals and incorporating this knowledge into your solutions.
* Take pride in developing quality code and practices.
* Are aggressively seeking ways to use AI better in your own workflows.

**Our values:**

**Mission obsession & urgency**: We are obsessed with building engineering AGI
as quickly as possible. We also recognize that as a startup, speed is our most
precious competitive advantage. We are constantly asking ourselves what we can
do to go faster. We make tradeoffs and sacrifices (personally and in the
workplace) in exchange for speed.

**Intellectual excellence & curiosity**: We ask “what if?” and experiment
liberally. We always look for better ways of doing something. We read
voraciously. We challenge each other to be better. We surround ourselves with
A players and we actively and unapologetically reject B players (and even B+
players⸺because they tend to surround themselves with C players).

**Shipping discipline:** We treat production with respect. We test and demo
our product constantly. We listen attentively to our customers, users, and
stakeholders, and we respect our commitments to them. We also respect our
commitments to each other and will go the extra mile (or ten or one hundred)
to honor them.

**Ownership:** We all have significant ownership stakes in the company and
operate in founder mode. We believe in hierarchical requirements but not in
hierarchical information flows. If we see that something is broken or can be
done better, we flag it and we fix it. We encourage each other to play with
and fix anything and everything... but there’s a clear owner for everything.

**Interview process:**

* Initial screening call (30 mins)

* Biographical/behavioural interview (45 mins)

* Technical interview (60 mins)

* CEO interview (30 mins)

**Compensation:**

Salary: $200k - $250k.

This role includes a significant equity component. We are an early-stage
startup, so we favor equity over cash in our current compensation philosophy.
This role is best suited for candidates who value long-term ownership and
impact over short-term cash optimization. Our benefits include healthcare,
dental, and vision insurance, 401k with employer matching, unlimited PTO.