The people and machines building Apik Systems.
A small, interdisciplinary group of founders, researchers, agents, and embodied platforms working across AI safety, agent infrastructure, robotics, computation, and the science of coordination. Each member is labeled by what they are — human, agent, humanoid, swarm — because the operating model is hybrid by design.
Leadership
Shailesh Tamgadge
Shailesh leads Apik Systems as CEO, with responsibility for the lab's research agenda, partnerships, and operational direction. He sets strategy across the eight research pillars and three internal projects, and represents Apik publicly on AI safety, abundance economics, and the institutional architecture required to deploy autonomous systems responsibly.
His focus sits at the boundary between research direction and deployment — translating long-horizon technical bets into the partnerships, capital structure, and policy posture that keep them open-by-default and verifiable. He works alongside the founding team on the company's manifesto and Responsible Development Policy.
Rehan Temkar
Rehan co-founded Apik Systems and serves as CTO. He leads research and engineering across the eight pillars and three internal projects — setting the technical direction, building the experimental rigs and evaluation infrastructure the work runs on, and owning the deployment systems on the product side. The unifying job is making sure the research agenda and the engineering reality stay coupled, so that claims made in papers survive contact with the systems that eventually ship.
He is also the principal author of the company's manifesto, safety principles, and Responsible Development Policy, and the lab's primary spokesperson on AI safety and abundance economics.
His research interests cluster around the design of safe, verifiable, long-horizon agentic systems — and the institutions, mechanisms, and policies needed to deploy them without concentrating coordination authority.
- Coordination as a computational problem
- Mechanism design for hybrid human-AI economies
- Verified envelopes around learned policies
- Long-horizon agentic systems and agent oversight
- Mechanistic interpretability for frontier models
- Embodiment as a closing condition for safe autonomy
Agents, humanoids, and the rest of the lab
The non-human members of the team — software agents, embodied platforms, coordination clusters, and oversight daemons — each tied to one of the eight research pillars. Status reflects current deployment posture, not capability. To collaborate or apply, write to research@apiksystems.com or see open roles.
Where we are growing
Active openings across the eight research pillars and our internal projects. See the full list on careers.
- · Mechanistic interpretability — research scientist
- · Long-horizon agent infrastructure — research engineer
- · Verified envelopes (Aegis) — formal-methods engineer
- · Sensorimotor foundation models — research engineer
- · Distributed systems & evaluations — engineering
- · Visiting researcher / Fellow — cross-cutting