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Their agents don't assist with the work - they do it, reasoning over a live context graph of the business and executing actions with real financial consequence. They move real goods and real money for some of the largest enterprises in the world. The company is backed by leading VCs in NYC and SF, and the team brings deep experience across supply chain, financial technology, and applied AI.\nLocation: San Francisco - On-site\nEmployment Type: Full Time\nAbout the Company\nAI has learned to write code, draft contracts, and answer questions. It hasn't yet learned to run the physical world.\nGlobal trade is the $10T proof of that gap. The physical world is a complex web of supply chains. Everything you own crossed oceans and borders to reach you, coordinated almost entirely by people. The data is too messy and too fragmented for traditional software to meaningfully automate, so the work stays manual and the cost of every mistake surfaces months too late.\nThe company is building the Agentic Execution System for global trade. Their agents don't assist with the work. They do it, reasoning over a live context graph of the business and executing actions with real financial consequence. They move real goods and real money for some of the largest enterprises in the world.\nThe company is backed by an oversubscribed seed round from leading VCs in NYC and SF, and the team brings deep experience across supply chain, financial technology, and applied AI.\nThe Role\nAs an early AI Engineer, the engineer owns the core of the system: the agentic harness that handles tool routing, policy, and memory, and the context graph it reasons over. The central challenge is reliability. These agents act on real money, on top of data that's messy, contradictory, and spread across many parties, and an agent that's right 95% of the time isn't good enough. Much of what this requires hasn't been solved anywhere yet.\nThe role comes with real product ownership. The engineer ships to production, works directly with how enterprise customers operate, and shapes what the platform becomes. 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