# Applied AI Engineer

Nothing is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to build agents that use tools, data, and app capabilities to complete real tasks. The role focuses on backend services and reliable cross-device, cloud-connected AI, while working with on-device AI and systems engineers to integrate agents into the platform. Responsibilities Build agents that use tools, data and app capabilities to finish real tasks Build the backend they run on: services, APIs, storage, and sync between devices and the cloud Solve the hard backend problems: concurrency, state and data flow across services and devices Work with our on-device AI and systems engineers to plug agents into the platform Write evals against real tasks, chase down every failure and ship the fix Own the task end to end, frontend included Build with coding agents every day, and know when your own judgment should win Skills You've shipped working software: at a job, in your own projects or in open source A backend-first mindset: services, APIs, concurrency, storage and how data moves through a system You've built with LLMs or agents, or can show us you'd pick them up fast and use them on a real problem You can take a vague idea and turn it into som

- **Id**: 3861149
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nothing-technology-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T08:37:21Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T15:20:45Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T15:20:45Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1875
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Smartphones

## Company

- **Id**: 7582
- **Name**: Nothing Technology
- **Domain**: nothing.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nothing-technology>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 159000
- **Max**: 242000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 242000

## Technologies

- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T09:23:35Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T15:20:45Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 242000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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