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title: 'Applied AI Engineer at Automat, Inc.'
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# Applied AI Engineer at Automat, Inc.

- **Company:** Automat, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-04-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/automat/c69679cd-98e0-4513-b899-1eb00925a1a9

## Job description

Who are the people that make up Automat? Automat was founded by a diverse group of creative technologists from teams like Google Creative Lab and Samsung’s Innovation Think Tank. We're building a future where intelligent agents run real business operations, not just support them. Automat Workforce puts AI coworkers directly inside a company's existing tools to handle day-to-day operational work, and our Studio platform gives customers a fully managed way to build, deploy, and monitor their own agents and automations. We encourage anyone to apply - while this is a senior position we think talent, passion and your unique perspective can outweigh years of experience. We are really looking for someone who can hit the ground running on day one and contribute at a rapid pace, while also being someone from whom we ourselves can learn from.

## The Role

We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer who thrives at the intersection of product, engineering, and research. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with forward-deployed engineers and end users, developing innovative tools for both internal teams and external customers. You will actively shape technical solutions, influence strategic direction, and contribute meaningfully to our culture.

What You'll Do:

- Collaborate with product and engineering to deeply understand customer challenges
- Research and deploy real-world applications of cutting-edge AI models
- Design and implement impactful solutions across internal tools and customer-facing products
- Influence our engineering practices, shape product direction, and contribute to company culture

What drives you

- Curiosity, creativity, and a drive to rapidly learn and adapt
- Building full-stack apps that bring AI to life
- Staying on top of the latest in AI and LLM prompting techniques
- Pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI agents
- Working in fast-moving, collaborative teams

What’s in your toolbox

- Strong understanding of ML & AI best practices
- Proficiency in Python and Typescript
- Experience working with LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.)
- Knowledge of LLM frameworks like Vercel AI SDK
- Experience building with frameworks like Next.js and working with REST APIs
- Familiarity with “computer-use” models (e.g., Operator, Computer Use, Browser Use)
- Experience using AI tools effectively (e.g. Cursor, Windsurf, lovable, etc.)

## What we are looking for

- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on ideas
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and wearing multiple hats
- Passion for creating intuitive, user-friendly experiences
- A proactive mindset and a bias toward action
- Experience in startups or other dynamic, high-growth settingsExperience in startups or other dynamic, high-growth settings
- 3-6+ years of experience working as an IC collaborative teams

## About Automat, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Automat provides an AI-driven robotic process automation (RPA) platform that uses click-based AI agents to automate complex workflows across enterprise systems, replacing brittle and expensive legacy RPA solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Lucas Ochoa (CEO) and Gautam Bose (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Automation / AI-Powered RPA
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Mortgage & Lending, Operations & Shared Services)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make work easier for everyone with one-click browser flows, using AI techniques from robotics to build automations that are 10x faster and 1/10th the price of traditional RPA.

## Products & Services
- **Automat Platform (Managed AI Automation)**: A suite of AI agents that can be deployed via API or UI triggers. The platform features a proprietary transformer-based RPA engine that mimics human behavior on top of existing user interfaces, including Windows, Citrix, and web portals. It includes self-healing agents, built-in human oversight, AI document extraction (IDP), and a UI-based agent builder.
- **Document Studio**: AI-powered document extraction and processing for PDFs, forms, and unstructured data.
- **API-Based Automations**: Custom API endpoints for integrating automations into existing workflows and products.
- **Managed Automations**: End-to-end service where the Automat team builds, tests, and validates automations based on screen recordings, process documentation, or example files.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $19.75M (across 3 rounds)
  - **Annual Revenue**: Not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Pre-Seed lead), Initialized Capital (Seed lead), Felicis (Series A lead)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount growth of +92.3% year-over-year (from ~10 to 22 employees)
  - Active hiring with 9 open positions
  - Operates in 6 countries (US, Philippines, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Sweden)
  - 2,533 LinkedIn followers (+86.9% yearly growth)
  - SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certified
  - Alumni from top AI and robotics companies (Google, Everyday Robots, 14.ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Transformer-Based RPA Engine**: Unlike legacy RPA (UiPath, Automation Anywhere), Automat’s agents are built using AI techniques from robotics, enabling them to understand context, handle exceptions, and self-heal when interfaces change.
- **Speed & Cost Efficiency**: Claims to be 10x faster to deploy and 1/10th the cost of traditional RPA.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certified with audit trails, granular permissions, and real-time monitoring.
- **Managed Service Model**: Offers end-to-end automation management, not just a tool, reducing the need for internal RPA teams.
- **Ex-Google Engineering Team**: Founders and early engineers have deep AI experience from Google, including work on LaMDA (Google’s conversational AI).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Enterprise Sales**: Currently hiring a Head of Sales and Enterprise Account Executives, indicating a push into larger enterprise deals.
- **Vertical Expansion**: Targeting high-value verticals like Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, and Manufacturing with tailored solutions.
- **Product Development**: Continuing to build out the AI agent platform with focus on self-healing, human-in-the-loop tooling, and observability.
- **Geographic Expansion**: Already operating in 6 countries, with LATAM (Colombia, Peru, Brazil) being a notable growth region.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of "makers who take action" — a bias for building and solving problems. The team works out of a former historic brewery in San Francisco’s Mission District.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Likely hybrid or in-office based on the San Francisco headquarters and the nature of close collaboration on AI/robotics.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of AI, robotics, and enterprise software. Team includes alumni from Google, Everyday Robots, and top AI labs. Engineers work on transformer-based models, computer vision, and agentic AI.
- **Benefits & Perks**: Health, Dental, Vision coverage; 401K (via Human Interest); Commuter Benefits (parking, public transit); Lifestyle perks; Reliable family coverage.
- **Growth Stage**: Early-stage (Series A, ~22 people) with massive growth trajectory — a chance to have outsized impact as an early employee.
- **Open Roles**: 9 active positions including Software Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Founding Designer, Enterprise Account Executive, Head of Sales, and Forward Deployed Engineer.

## Sources
1. [runautomat.com/about](https://runautomat.com/about)
2. [runautomat.com/careers](https://runautomat.com/careers)
3. [runautomat.com](https://runautomat.com/)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/automat](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/automat)
5. [linkedin.com/company/automat-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/automat-ai)

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