Imbue [https://imbue.com] | Infrastructure Engineers | San Francisco (ONSITE) | Full-time
Imbue is building a coding agent environment (https://imbue.com/product/sculptor/) that imbues engineering wisdom into LLM workflows—so anyone has the power to create software they can trust.
We aim to rekindle the dream of personal computing and make software creation accessible to all, so every person can have the power to shape their computational future.
Imbue [https://imbue.com] | Senior Product Engineers | San Francisco (ONSITE) | Full-time
Imbue is building a coding agent environment (https://imbue.com/product/sculptor/) that imbues engineering wisdom into LLM workflows—so anyone has the power to create software they can trust.
We aim to rekindle the dream of personal computing and make software creation accessible to all, so every person can have the power to shape their computational future.
Hi there! I'm Kanjun, Josh's cofounder — thanks for this lovely take on Imbue :) I feel quite seen, and wanted to share some replies to your thoughts.
On Sculptor: You’ve nailed it on the key things to get right. Today, I’d say the product is still very early, and it can indeed get expensive if you kick off tons and tons of agents. Today’s research preview release (currently free for testers) aims to slowly grow our community of testers, so we can get the product to identify and fix issues well, and enable actual software engineering with AI agents. We’d genuinely love to work with you as we build this out if you’re game to deal with early-stage bumps and crashes: DM me on X (I’m @kanjun) and we’ll get you set up with Sculptor.
On policy and mission: Thank you for the treatment on SB-1047. We care a lot about distributing power, and that showed us firsthand the complexities of regulating entrenched interests. We are not currently a PBC because the legal entity doesn’t seem to greatly affect the behavior of companies that are PBCs. It seems like the bigger effect is how leadership thinks about ethics and decision-making, and so for now, we take our own ethical grounding and behaviors seriously rather than relying on the legal structure.
We’re neither e/acc nor EA — I don’t fully resonate with either's treatment of the dynamics created by increasing AI capabilities, and I’m generally wary of this kind of tribalism as it can hinder critical thinking. My current primary lens is that of power distribution — we want to ensure that power is as much as possible in the hands of humans, and in particular, prosocial humans.
On Minsky: Wow, I’d totally forgotten about his Sculpting paper! But upon rereading, we are referencing a similar feeling to how software engineering could feel in the future — less need for intense precision, more like sculpting. Our view of how that gets implemented necessarily differs from Minsky’s (he was ahead of his time).
Indeed, we started our journey as Generally Intelligent (and posted jobs on HN all the time, heh), with the intent of figuring out how to address what we saw as core sociotechnical problems of AI. This product is, we believe, a step in that direction. In the next month or so, I will put out a more detailed treatment of the ideas around power, tailored for an audience keen on diving deeper.
Imbue | Founding Product Engineers | San Francisco (ONSITE) | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
> Please apply through the website above. All submissions are reviewed by a real person!
Then they're doing a terrible job. A few associates applied between 2-4mos ago each and never received anything beyond an acknowledgement of application.
Imbue | Founding Product Engineers | San Francisco (ONSITE) | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue | Machine Learning Engineer | Remote or San Francisco | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue | Research Scientist | San Francisco | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents. We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue | Machine Learning Engineer | Remote or San Francisco | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue | Machine Learning Engineer | Remote or San Francisco | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue | Engineering Manager | San Francisco | Full-time
Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents. We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
Imbue is building a coding agent environment (https://imbue.com/product/sculptor/) that imbues engineering wisdom into LLM workflows—so anyone has the power to create software they can trust.
We aim to rekindle the dream of personal computing and make software creation accessible to all, so every person can have the power to shape their computational future.
For more example projects and benefits, see the full job description: https://imbue.com/careers
Please apply through the website above. All submissions are reviewed by a real person!