Small team, real ownership
Every engineer owns a surface end-to-end. No product managers. No tickets you didn't write yourself. You ship the thing, you own the bugs, you respond to the Slack.
careers · agentic empire
We hire rarely.When we do, the bar is high.
Agentic Empire builds open-source tools for Apple platforms — axint today, more over time. We don't have an open requisitions board. We hire when we meet someone who would clearly make us better, and that's usually because they already shipped something we respect.
axint itself stays open source. Contributors don't need a job here to ship code — see the contributor guide for how to get involved.
how we operate
Senior team.Async by default.
Open source is the default
axint's compiler is Apache-2.0 and stays that way — forever. We hire people to make it better, not to lock it up. Commercial products exist where hosting is a genuine service, not where we've gated a feature.
Senior engineers only
We don't have the bandwidth to mentor. Everyone here has shipped production software that real people rely on. This is a bar, not a preference.
Remote, deeply async
Two short standups a week. One planning meeting every other Monday. Everything else happens in GitHub and well-written docs. We protect deep work.
what we ship
The bar isthe work itself.
If you want to know what we expect from a hire, look at what we already ship. The same level of care, the same insistence on real evidence, the same comfort moving between TypeScript, Python, and Swift.
- compiler
204-diagnostic validator across TS, Python, and .axint, four Apple outputs, real xcodebuild evidence in the run loop.
- registry
Public Apple-native package registry with verified creator identity, bundle hash, and validation history.
- cloud
Hosted validation surface that returns Fix Packets the agent can act on — verdict, findings, repair prompt, next command.
- mcp
36 MCP tools and 5 prompts that let Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP host call axint directly.
how to reach us
The best hires rarely come from job posts.
They come from people who've already shipped something we respect. If you're serious about compilers or Apple platforms and you'd clearly make us better, send us a note with what you've built. The strongest opener is a link to real work — a repo, a shipped feature, a paper, anything we can evaluate before a call.