Applied AI Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level AI Engineering role at Warp. New York · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $157,938–$275,000.
Warp has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
aimlroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Build agent features from model calls through the interface across HR, payroll, benefits and IT
- Develop the agent runtime for tool use, scheduled work, pauses and resumptions, with an auditable action history
- Create evaluations and safeguards for high-stakes workflows, including when the agent needs human approval
- Add agent permissions and build workflows customers can configure, plus tools that reduce manual work internally
- Create agent interaction points in web, employee and mobile apps, and Slack
What you bring
- You have delivered production LLM features that real users rely on and understand their failure points
- You bring strong full-stack skills and expertise in a modern, strongly typed programming language
- You have built production AI systems such as agents, tool-use flows, retrieval or structured extraction
- You have designed dependable backend systems
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits a product-minded engineer who prioritizes reliability, correctness and how delegated work appears to users. You’ll work from Warp’s New York City office five days a week and collaborate directly with the CTO and CEO.
From the employer
About Warp
Warp is the AI-native Employee Management Platform for ambitious companies. HRIS, payroll, benefits, IT, tax compliance, and more, all built from scratch on one AI-native platform.
Every company runs on its people, and the software that manages them is some of the oldest in the enterprise. Incumbents like ADP and Workday built their businesses on complexity and large ops teams. Warp is built for AI to be the primary operator. Every advance in LLM capability widens our lead.
We process $X billion in annual payments for high-growth companies across all 50 US states + globally.
We've raised $85M from Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Peak XV, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), and Y Combinator, alongside operators including Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe), and the founders of Dropbox and Replit. Our team comes from MIT, Ramp, Brex, Google, Gusto, Rippling, and more.
We hire people who ship constantly, own outcomes, and care about craft. If you want to automate an entire category of work that every company depends on, this is the place.
About the Role
High-growth companies spend thousands of hours on people operations: onboarding new hires, running payroll, managing benefits, provisioning devices, answering policy questions, approving time off and expenses. Most of that work still runs on spreadsheets, tickets, and people chasing people. We're building agents that do it for them.
Warp Agent works in the background for HR, finance, and people teams. It gets new hires ready for day one, reviews expenses against policy, handles time-off requests, checks payroll before it runs, and reports on what's happening across the company. Customers hand it a receipt or a notice and it takes care of the rest. Because Warp runs the full employee lifecycle on one platform, the agent has the context to finish the work, not just suggest it.
The hard part is trust. People data is the most sensitive data a company has, and people operations leave little room for error. Every agent action respects role-based permissions, so an IT manager's agent can provision a laptop without ever seeing anyone's salary, and every action is logged and auditable.
We believe agents will soon do more work on Warp than people do. As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll build those agents, the runtime they operate on, and the systems that make them reliable enough to run a company's people operations.
What You'll Do
Ship agentic features end to end, from the model call to the UI, across HRIS, payroll, benefits, IT, and more
Build and extend Warp Agent's harness: tool-calling, durable execution for long-running work (triggers, scheduling, wait and resume), and a run log that makes every agent action auditable
Design evals and guardrails for workflows where mistakes are costly, and decide when an agent acts on its own versus asks for approval
Build new agent workflows and expand what customers can configure and author themselves
Extend our permission model to agents so every action respects who the agent is working for
Build internal agents and tooling that remove manual work across Warp's own teams
Build new surfaces for interactions with Warp agent across the web app, employee app, mobile app, and slack
Collaborate directly with the CTO and CEO
You'll Be Good for This Role If You
Have shipped LLM features that real users depend on in production, and know where they break
Think in systems: evals, observability, cost, latency, and failure modes
Are product-minded and care how an agent's work shows up for the person who delegated it
Get excited by hard domains where correctness matters more than demos
Use coding agents heavily in your own workflow and have opinions on what works
What You Need
Strong full-stack engineering skills and expertise in a modern, strongly typed language
A track record of building production AI systems: agents, tool use, retrieval, or structured extraction
Experience designing reliable backend systems
High agency. You figure things out.
Willingness to work from our NYC office five days a week
Benefits at Warp:
100% Health Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.
401(k) Matching: Start investing in your future from day one.
Flexible PTO: We offer uncapped flexible PTO, meaning you’re trusted to take the time you need to recharge while balancing your responsibilities and team commitments.
Commuter Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits for your daily trip to our NYC office.
Catered Lunch Daily: Great food, every day, on us. No meal prep, no decision fatigue.
Quarterly Offsites: Beautiful locations to connect as a team. Past locations include Spain, Catskills, and San Francisco.
Warp is based in New York City, and most of our team works together in-office 5x per week. Please refer to the top of this page for this position's hiring location and working model.