Staff Software Engineer, AI Product

Summary

Join The Browser Company and become a Product Engineer, playing a key role in designing, prototyping, and shipping novel LLM-powered features for our browser, Dia. Lead the architecture and execution of LLM-powered features. Collaborate with various teams to brainstorm and launch new AI features. Champion a product-minded approach, ensuring technical decisions align with user impact and business value. Deliver high-quality, user-friendly experiences. This role requires 6+ years of software development experience, hands-on experience with LLMs, and the ability to solve ambiguous problems. The company offers a flexible compensation model, comprehensive benefits (including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision), 401k, flexible vacation, remote work options, paid parental leave, and a home office stipend.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience developing high-craft software products, with a strong background in shipping user-facing products
• You have hands-on experience with LLMs and are eager to apply the latest technologies
• You’re experienced in solving ambiguous problems and have successfully owned complex technical initiatives and projects that have had an outsized impact on a business
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
• Most of our team is based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone
• You resonate with our company values and can continue to scale your team with these in mind

Responsibilities

• Lead, architect, and execute LLM-powered features across our products
• Collaborate closely with Design, Membership, Data, and our Leadership teams to brainstorm, prototype, and launch new AI-powered features that enhance user experience
• Champion a product-minded approach, ensuring every technical decision is grounded in user impact and business value
• Sweat the small stuff to deliver high-craft, industry-leading, interaction-rich user experiences which set the bar for what's possible
• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
• Work side-by-side with other engineers on the team, fixing bugs and shipping code improvements to production
• Attend onboarding presentations about the company, product, codebase, and culture
• Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android
• Pair program with a other engineers and get familiar with the pace and cadence at which we ship
• Be regularly posting feedback about using Dia in our #dogfooding channel
• Build numerous core features for Dia, actively contribute to product brainstorms, and shape the future of Dia and it’s assistant
• Regularly attend weekly engineering discussions, how we do code review, code style, and more
• Be familiar with our testing infrastructure, and setting best practices by contributing tests with new features
• Participate in product brainstorms to think about the future of Dia and its assistant
• Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
• Become the point of contact for bugs and product iterations of a core product surface area
• Have proactively shared prototypes and technical approaches for quickly exploring new product ideas
• Be leading projects from idea to launch, taking full ownership of the development lifecycle
• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them ramp onto the codebase
• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

Preferred Qualifications

Experience shipping user-facing AI features is a strong plus

Benefits

• With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs
• Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer
• The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-$275,000 USD
• The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance
• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision
• We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 95% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy: on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time Monday-Friday
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate