Proximity Works

Proximity Works is a global, fully distributed engineering team headquartered in San Francisco, with operations across five countries. The company employs engineers, designers, product managers and machine learning experts as a single remote organisation, a structure that makes location largely irrelevant for those considering working with it.

The firm builds AI-native platforms and performance engineering solutions for clients in the sports, media and entertainment industries. Its technical work spans artificial intelligence and machine learning, with particular depth in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, retrieval systems, search relevance, LLM-based conversational experiences, personalised recommendation engines and intelligent document processing. Alongside client delivery, it offers AI consulting and maintains an AI Innovation Unit, an in-house team intended to bring current AI research directly into the development of large-scale AI solutions.

Products are built for enterprise use at scale, with stated design goals of reliability, predictability and cost efficiency, and are used by millions of people every day. Reported performance results include a 2X improvement at Nasdaq and a 600% performance boost for Dream11.

Internally, team members are known as “Proxonauts”. The stated culture centres on solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.