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  1. What are you up to?

    We are building an AI engineer agent for the physical world. His name is Archie. We try to maximize Archie’s anthropomorphism so that he fits seamlessly into existing engineering teams and workflows. Our aim is to have an Archie on every engineering team at every major industrial company. Archie today is at the level of a junior mechanical and electrical engineer, with a quantitative multiphysics intuition over the product design space and the ability to use complex engineering tools. We train custom AI models using proprietary semi-synthetic training data sets for these capabilities and use structured design representation and other mechanisms to keep AI models “on rails” in executing engineering tasks. We are currently working with design partners and customers in data center engineering (cooling, critical power systems, etc.), and expanding to automotive, aerospace, and other product domains.


  2. How do I get an Archie for my team?

    Getting Archie onto your engineering teams is easy. We try to make it feel much like working with an engineering outsourcing provider. If you are interested in seeing if Archie is a match for your engineering organization, please reach out to silvio@p-1.ai.


  3. Who are you?

    Paul Eremenko, Adam Nagel, Chase Shimmin, Ethan Lew, Silvio Memme, Nima Mehdian, Sandeep Neema, Cyril Picard, Ignacio Cases, Hieu Nguyen, Kade Carlson, Sophia Martinez, Joe Pacold, Julie Kesler, Paul Maxwell, Michael Teryohin, Nick Boesel, Jonathan Peterson, Ken Nieva, Harry Handlin, Aakash Vasudevan, Anirudh Suresh, Saad Akhtar, Terry Zhou, and several others.


  4. Who are your investors?

    Institutional: Radical Ventures, Village Global, Schematic Ventures, and several others.
    Individual: Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Zak Stone (Google Cloud), Peter Welinder (OpenAI), Bob van Luijt (Weaviate), Tim Junio (Palo Alto Networks; Ultra), and several others.


  5. Where can I learn more?


  6. Are you hiring?

    So glad you asked — yes! We are looking for mission-motivated applied AI researchers to join us in our office in the San Francisco Bay Area, and for rockstar engineers and others for remote roles nationwide (in the US and Canada). For a list of open roles, see our Ashby page.


  7. Why is it called P-1?

    It's an homage to the AI in the pioneering 1977 sci-fi novel The Adolescence of P-1.