Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI Platform

P-1 AI

6d•$200,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.). 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 can be either remote (based in US or Canada and with existing work authorization) or based in our San Mateo Bay Area office. If you are remote, you should plan to spend one week out of six co-working with the rest of the company in our San Mateo office. We will support relocation for candidates interested in moving to the Bay Area.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.