About the Role
We're seeking smart, ambitious engineers at all levels to join our fast moving team.
We’re hiring across fullstack and product engineering — we care less about titles and more about builders who can own problems end to end. You’ll help us ship innovative products powered by cutting-edge AI and modern development frameworks, ultimately turning our research into reality.
Qualifications
Fullstack engineering experience: depth and ownership matter more than # of years
Proven experience with AI/LLM integrations in production applications
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration, not precious about what you work on, and can contribute from day 1
Hands-on experience with modern deployment tools (Vercel, Next.js, Railway, or similar)
Bonus
Competitive programming background (IOI, USACO Gold/Platinum, ACM-ICPC, or similar)
Open source project contributions
What makes us interesting
Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies
True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months
Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution
What we do
Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and
Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and
Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms
The Details
Full-time, onsite role in Menlo Park
Startup hours apply
Generous salary, with additional benefits to be discussed during the hiring process
Top Skills
What We Do
Fundamental Research Labs is building digital humans—machines with the capacity to learn, care, and grow alongside us.
We're an applied research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent agents. Our small team includes computational neuroscientists, AI researchers, engineers, and builders from MIT EECS, Stanford NLP Group, Google X, Citadel, and beyond.
Our research prototypes began with multi-agent experiments in games like Minecraft and Roblox, where over a million people have interacted with our agents. Today, we're bringing those agents out of the sandbox and into the real world—starting with your computer.
