Full-Time

AI Engineer

Backend

Updated on 9/3/2026

AGI, Inc.

AGI, Inc.

11-50 employees

Advanced AI for natural language understanding

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Incident Response
Distributed Systems
Postgres
Observability

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Requirements
  • Experience building or operating backend systems in production.
  • Experience designing backends for large language model-powered systems where latency, cost, and non-determinism are first-class concerns.
  • Ability to design and operate production systems with observability, incident response, and capacity planning.
  • Strong understanding of queues and idempotency.
  • Ability to provide a link to a backend system built or operated and explain a production decision defended on a whiteboard.
Responsibilities
  • Own the agent backend end-to-end, including model orchestration, tool-use plumbing, agent state, retries, and observability.
  • Own the data plane behind agent actions, including PostgreSQL schema, caching, queues, and event streams at original equipment manufacturer scale.
  • Own production service-level agreements, on-call operations, and the reliability bar for agent cloud systems.
  • Ship research work to real users and provide feedback based on production failures.
  • Provide backends that forward-deployed engineers and partners can integrate against.
  • Collaborate with iOS and Android teams to determine the appropriate division between on-device and cloud computing.
  • Teach backend design for large language model-powered systems, including latency, cost, and non-determinism considerations.
  • Teach production-system operation, including observability, incident response, and capacity planning.
  • Learn the internals of agentic systems and agent infrastructure at original equipment manufacturer scale.
  • Learn on-device and cloud co-design, including when to place computation on the phone versus in the cloud.
  • Ship meaningful changes to the agent backend, take on-call shifts, own a major backend surface, shape service reliability and observability standards, and influence architecture for partner launches and infrastructure supporting 10 million devices.

AGI, Inc. develops and deploys highly capable artificial intelligence systems focused on natural language understanding. Its product is a software system that processes language using deep learning models to understand and answer questions, aiming to perform at human-level accuracy on standard NLU benchmarks such as SQuAD. Unlike many AI developers that target broad capabilities, AGI, Inc. centers on advancing NLU performance on established datasets, with the goal of solving core language understanding challenges. The company measures its progress by achieving human-level results on benchmark datasets and applying its technology to real-world language tasks.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • August 2026 product pages say AGI-0 and AGI MCP are live for select partners.
  • LinkedIn reported 28,167 followers and active San Francisco hiring on September 1, 2026.
  • Snapdragon optimization gives AGI distribution through OEMs, not just a standalone app.

What critics are saying

  • Only 1-10 employees as of September 1, 2026 cannot support enterprise-scale execution.
  • Apple or Google can restrict accessibility automation, instantly breaking AGI’s screen-reading agent workflow.
  • The MultiOn rebrand and vanished browser-product documentation signal strategy churn and weak moat.

What makes AGI, Inc. unique

  • AGI-0 runs on-device, keeping actions private across apps without per-app integrations.
  • March 12, 2026 Snapdragon collaboration embeds AGI’s agent stack into device platforms.
  • August 6, 2026 AGI MCP turned Android phones into tool servers for any MCP client.

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6 month growth

44%

1 year growth

44%

2 year growth

44%
Fortune
Dec 3rd, 2023
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Google had just acquired DeepMind, a neural networking startup based in London, which made it the most likely company to develop artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a system that can match humans when faced with an unfamiliar task.