
Building engineering AGI for the physical world.
Focus: Engineering AGI (AGEI) for the built/physical world
Product: Archie — an AI engineer for quantitative and spatial reasoning in physical product design
Funding: $23.0M seed (Apr 2025) led by Radical Ventures
Founding: Founded 2024; emerged from stealth April 2025
Leadership: Paul Eremenko (Co‑founder & CEO); Adam Nagel (Co‑founder & Head of Engineering)
Team size: 27 employees
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Artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) for the built/physical world
2024
Software Development
$23.0M
Participating investors included Village Global, Schematic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and individual investors such as Jeff Dean, Peter Welinder, Sergey Gorbunov, and Bob van Luijt (8 investors total).
About You
About P-1 AI We are building an engineering AGI. We founded P-1 AI with the conviction that the greatest impact of artificial intelligence will be on the built world. Our first product is Archie, an AI engineer capable of quantitative intuition over physical product domains and engineering tool use. Archie initially performs at the level of an entry-level design engineer but rapidly gets smarter and more capable. We aim to put an Archie on every engineering team at every industrial company on earth.
Our founding team includes the top minds in deep learning, model-based engineering, and industries that are our customers. We closed a $23 million seed round led by Radical Ventures that includes a number of other AI and industrial luminaries (from OpenAI, DeepMind, etc.).
About The Role In this role, you’ll be responsible for the evals that we use to ensure that Archie is learning and retaining the skills needed to successfully perform its engineering work, and benchmark it against industry skill expectations. Working within a small, tightly-knit team of high-performers, you’ll be principally responsible for clearly defining, implementing, and validating these, including input from our engineering experts and industrial partners. You’ll also be responsible for translating these eval tests into multiple formats for use with different types of AI and non-AI systems and agents.
This role is remote and you can be based anywhere in the US or Canada, where you must have existing work authorization. You will be expected to travel to our San Francisco office for co-working sessions approximately one week out of every six. If you are already located in the SF Bay Area or are interested in relocation, you are of course welcome to work out of our SF office. Our AI team is based in the SF office, so there would be some benefit to you being in-office at least part of the time.
Responsibilities
Skills And Experience
Our Values Mission obsession & urgency : We are obsessed with building engineering AGI as quickly as possible. We also recognize that as a startup, speed is our most precious competitive advantage. We are constantly asking ourselves what we can do to go faster. We make tradeoffs and sacrifices (personally and in the workplace) in exchange for speed.
Intellectual excellence & curiosity : We ask “what if?” and experiment liberally. We always look for better ways of doing something. We read voraciously. We challenge each other to be better. We surround ourselves with A players and we actively and unapologetically reject B players (and even B+ players⸺because they tend to surround themselves with C players).
Shipping discipline: We treat production with respect. We test and demo our product constantly. We listen attentively to our customers, users, and stakeholders, and we respect our commitments to them. We also respect our commitments to each other and will go the extra mile (or ten or one hundred) to honor them.
Ownership: We all have significant ownership stakes in the company and operate in founder mode. We believe in hierarchical requirements but not in hierarchical information flows. If we see that something is broken or can be done better, we flag it and we fix it. We encourage each other to play with and fix anything and everything... but there’s a clear owner for everything.
Interview Process
Initial screening - with Head of Talent (30 mins)
Hiring manager interview - with co-founder & Head of Engineering (45 mins)
Programming interview - with member of technical staff & Head of Engineering (60 mins)
bring your own dev environment and tools
Culture fit / Q&A - with co-founder & CEO (45 mins)