Applied AI Engineer

Centaur is building agents that take ownership of complex objectives and pursue them autonomously for days, months, and eventually indefinitely, a new class of AI: unbounded, long-running agents that don't stop after a single task but keep making progress toward an outcome over time. Its founding team includes leaders and founding members from Tesla AI, Physical Intelligence, Anthropic, Adept, Jane Street, NVIDIA Research, and Google DeepMind.

The core thesis: as agents operate over longer horizons, the bottleneck shifts from capability to intent, accurately understanding what a person or organization wants, preserving that understanding over time, and knowing when human judgment is actually required. Centaur builds systems that turn sparse human direction and messy longitudinal evidence into a persistent representation of intent, then use it to plan, act, evaluate outcomes, recover from mistakes, and continuously improve.

In a world where human judgment is the scarce resource, the defining systems of this era will maximize valuable output per unit of human judgment at the lowest cost. Centaur's first application is self-improving products: agents that learn what customers are trying to accomplish, identify unmet and latent needs, build or configure solutions, deploy them, measure whether they worked, and keep iterating.

You'll build the product through which users delegate and oversee complex outcomes, owning major product areas end to end, and working closely with research and infrastructure to turn new agent capabilities into reliable, intuitive experiences. This is a zero-to-one, full-stack seat: you'll build across the stack, from user-facing interfaces to agent workflows, model orchestration, and infrastructure, and turn frontier model capabilities into products that actually solve real user problems.

It's a founding-level role at an early team, so expect to prototype rapidly, make strong product and technical decisions, take ideas from first principles to production, and help shape Centaur's product, technical architecture, and culture. You'll work directly with users, understand their workflows, and iterate fast on what you learn. The bar is exceptional engineering paired with real product judgment and taste, someone who's shipped successful user-facing products (ideally 0 to 1) and thrives across product, engineering, models, and infra rather than inside a narrow function.