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Applied Compute

Custom AI models and enterprise agents

GTM Engineer

Full-Time
$160k - $240k+ Equity + 5% 401(k) match
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • Prior professional experience as a software engineer or machine learning engineer, building and maintaining production systems on an engineering team.
  • Strength in either building reliable software and large language model automations or leading technical discovery and scoping.
  • Strong technical judgment, clear communication, and ownership from problem definition through execution.
Responsibilities
  • Build agents and automations for account intelligence, outbound, and go-to-market workflows.
  • Build integrations across the customer relationship management system, communication tools, meeting transcripts, and external data sources so useful context reaches the right people.
  • Take systems from initial idea through daily use, with testing, monitoring, and documentation that keep them reliable as the team scales.
  • Lead discovery, qualify post-training opportunities, and define data, evaluation, and deployment requirements.
  • Develop technical proposals and success criteria, answer customer questions, and coordinate handoffs to applied research engineers or the platform team.
  • Explain the platform, recommend approaches, and address technical questions about model selection, training, inference, and integration.
Desired Qualifications
  • Ability to flex between coding and customer-facing work.

About the company

Applied Compute builds custom AI models and in-house AI agents for enterprises, a concept called Specific Intelligence. They train proprietary AI on a company’s own data and fine-tune it for specific workflows, operating on a large GPU cluster with an integrated training stack, agent platform, and development tools. They also embed engineers within customer teams to move from idea to deployed solutions in days, not months. Their goal is to give enterprises a competitive edge by deploying production-ready, specialized AI that deeply integrates into operations and is difficult for others to replicate.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$160M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2025

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Annualized revenue reached about $50 million by August 2026, nearly quadruple November levels.
  • AC2 launched in August 2026 and entered private beta with broad open-model support.
  • Customer list spans DoorDash, Cognition, Mercor, Harvey, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, validating enterprise demand.

What critics are saying

  • Open-source model vendors compress margins; customers can replicate workflows with cheaper infrastructure quickly.
  • A $3 billion valuation in August 2026 demands flawless growth and retention from a 17-person team.
  • If OpenAI, Microsoft, or Anthropic ship better enterprise agents, Applied Compute loses its wedge.

What makes Applied Compute unique

  • Former OpenAI researchers Yash Patil, Rhythm Garg, and Linden Li launched it in 2025.
  • AC2 unifies training, serving, and production feedback for open models in one stack.
  • Applied Compute embeds engineers inside customers like DoorDash, Cognition, Mercor, and Microsoft.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Parental Leave
  • Meal Benefits
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

18%

2 year growth

18%
The Information
Aug 10th, 2026
Applied Compute in Talks to Double Valuation to $3 Billion on Open-Source Demand

Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data, is discussing a new funding round that would value it at around $3 billion, more than double its valuation from a round announced four months ago, according to a person with ...

RootData
Apr 9th, 2026
Applied Compute raises $80M at $1.3B valuation to build enterprise AI agents

Applied Compute, a startup building dedicated intelligent systems for enterprises, has raised $80 million in new financing, bringing its post-money valuation to $1.3 billion. Kleiner Perkins led the round, with participation from Elad Gil, Lux Capital, Greenoaks, NEO and Hana Bicapital. Total funding now stands at $160 million. The company develops what it calls "Specific Intelligence" — proprietary intelligent agents trained on real company operations and designed for continuous self-evolution. Applied Compute's technology helps enterprises unlock institutional context, train agents for specific workflows and performance standards, and deploy them to production environments.

Applied Compute
Apr 8th, 2026
The Advantage You Own

Applied Compute Raises $80M to Help Enterprises Advance from Generalized to Specific Intelligence

SiliconANGLE Media
Oct 31st, 2025
Former OpenAI researchers launch Applied Compute with $80M in funding

Former OpenAI researchers launch Applied Compute with $80M in funding - SiliconANGLE