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title: 'Product Engineer (AI Driven) at AE Studio'
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# Product Engineer (AI Driven) at AE Studio

- **Company:** AE Studio
- **Location:** Florianopolis Office/, Brazil
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/5627438004

## Job description

AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that works closely with founders and executives to create custom software and machine learning solutions.

We build products, platforms, and internal ventures that increase agency for all conscious beings. We combine world-class software engineering, AI expertise, and product design to ship ambitious projects that matter.

We’re looking for a Full-Stack Developer who bridges modern web engineering with practical AI; someone who can design, build, and ship production-ready, AI-powered applications while maintaining the standards of a top-tier software developer.

## What You’ll Do

- Design and ship end-to-end applications from prototype to production across frontend, backend, and cloud.
- Build clean, scalable APIs and services and integrate AI models where they create real value.
- Create AI pipelines (data ingestion, preprocessing, embeddings, retrieval, orchestration) that are reliable and maintainable.
- Engineer prompting strategies and guardrails for real-world performance (latency, cost, accuracy), not just demo hype.
- Integrate AI features into full-stack apps with robust APIs, frontend UX, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to deliver polished product experiences.
- Continuously evaluate new AI tools/models for performance, cost, and fit.
- Write production-grade, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python (and other languages as needed).

## What We’re Looking For

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven track record shipping production applications (links to live products welcome).
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), embeddings, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
- Strong command of modern web stacks (e.g., React/Next.js, Node.js/Nest/Fastify, Python/FastAPI) and cloud infrastructure.
- Solid grasp of architecture, scalability, performance, and security.
- A bias toward shipping with best practices (testing, code reviews, monitoring/observability).
- Clear communication, self-management, and comfort in a collaborative remote environment.
- Comfortable picking up new languages and frameworks, leveraging modern AI dev tools to move faster.

What Sets You Apart

- Experience fine-tuning models or training custom models on domain-specific data.
- Contributions to open-source AI or developer tooling.
- Mature approach to prompt engineering and evaluation (beyond trial-and-error).
- Background in data engineering or MLOps.
- Passion for AI alignment, agency-increasing technologies, and ethical AI development.

If you can write prompts that work today and code that still works in two years, we want to talk to you.

Salary range from $115k/year to $185k/year (if you're based in LA). Not in the range? That's fine, you can still apply and our team may fit you in a more senior position that we're not actively hiring for right now, since we are growing fast and may have other openings soon.

## EQUITY

Working at AE means receiving equity in our client projects and in Skunkworks ventures. The equity is priced at $0 when granted for tax reasons, but AE invests millions into these projects. Equity comes from reduced margins on client work and internal funding. You get a real stake in the things you help build.

The longer you stay, the more value you create and the more equity you receive. If you leave on good terms, you can retain 20% of your equity by staying engaged. If you spin out a Skunkworks venture, you retain 100%.

## About AE Studio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AE Studio is a bootstrapped applied AI studio that delivers frontier AI alignment research, production AI systems, and AI strategy for enterprise and high-growth clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped – no outside investors)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence, AI alignment research, AI strategy, custom machine learning, enterprise software
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 1000 enterprises, PE portfolio companies, mid-market operators ($50–500M revenue), and venture-backed startups
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building products to increase human agency using the most recent technologies” (from job descriptions)

## Products & Services
The company operates across three practice areas, each delivered as a service:

- **Frontier AI Alignment Research**: In-house research lab publishing at top AI conferences. Collaborates with DARPA (AICRAFT, Sleeper Agents) and Anthropic. Research threads include Self-Other Overlap, Gradient Routing, Endogenous Steering Resistance, Attention Schema Theory, SelfIE, FDRA, and the automated AI research agent AE Scientist.  
  *Type*: Research service (grants, commissionable engagements, self-funded)

- **Production AI Systems**: Senior embedded pods that ship production AI systems in weeks, clearing enterprise architecture review. Representative work includes:
  - Azul Airlines – orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI generating $6M/week in new revenue.
  - Alpha School – AI-native learning platform (Avatar Tutors, Essay Writing, etc.) driving top 1–2% national test scores.
  - Blackrock Neurotech – MoveAgain BCI (brain-computer interface) platform for paralyzed patients.
  - Pimsleur – voice-driven AI Conversation Coach with 175,000+ learners, resulting in 45% longer sessions.
  - Global Shop Solutions – AI document ingestion (95% accuracy, 90% reduction in manual overhead).
  - Jupiter Intelligence – natural-language access to 400 trillion climate data points.
  - EVgo – multi-year embedded partnership for EVgo eXtend white-label platform.
  *Type*: Service (custom development)

- **AI Strategy**: Readiness assessments, opportunity mapping, training, and org design for leadership teams.  
  *Type*: Consulting service

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no outside investors)
- **Key Metric**: ~150 senior applied AI, data, and product practitioners; 99+ named client engagements
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (bootstrapped). Key research collaborators: DARPA (AICRAFT, Sleeper Agents programs), Anthropic. Public endorsement from Emmett Shear (former OpenAI CEO).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanding research portfolio with DARPA funding and peer-reviewed publications.
  - Consistent delivery of high-impact production AI systems (e.g., $6M/week revenue lift for Azul).
  - Active hiring across multiple roles (data science, engineering, product, TPM) with offices in LA and Florianópolis.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped independence**: No outside investors, allowing long-term focus on alignment research without external pressure.
- **Rigor from research to production**: Applies same standards from academic alignment work to every client build.
- **Senior-only teams**: ~150 experienced practitioners, not junior-heavy.
- **Speed to impact**: Ship production AI systems in weeks, as demonstrated by Global Shop Solutions (5 weeks) and Pimsleur (rapid deployment).
- **Unique AI guarantee**: The “AE Guarantee” (referenced on website) – a promise of quality and accountability, though details are not public.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued investment in AI alignment research** – advancing frontier safety and interpretability through DARPA-funded programs and internal agendas.
- **Scaling Production AI Systems** – targeting Fortune 1000, PE portfolios, and mid-market clients with repeatable, high-velocity delivery.
- **Expanding industry-specific solutions** – dedicated landing pages for airlines, edtech, healthcare, BCI, neurotech, blockchain, and operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “awesome work environment and highly productive process” with a focus on self-management and strong problem-solving.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Fully remote for US-based roles; also has offices in Los Angeles, CA and Florianópolis, Brazil. Some positions are location-specific (e.g., Senior Full Stack Developer for Brazil).
- **Engineering culture**: Senior practitioners working on frontier AI alignment and high-stakes production systems. Emphasis on autonomy, deep technical work, and shipping real impact.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI research with DARPA/Anthropic and to build production AI for major organizations.

## Sources
1. [ae.studio](https://ae.studio)
2. [ae.studio/about](https://ae.studio/about)
3. [ae.studio/join-us](https://ae.studio/join-us)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio)
5. [linkedin.com/company/agency-enterprise-studio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agency-enterprise-studio)

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- [Alignment Research Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/alignment-research-manager-ae-studio-los-angeles-btt46qyx5qxp) — Los Angeles, CA / United States
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