Full Stack Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: New York City, Remote, Portland, ME

Employment Type: FullTime

Introduction

We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems.

What We Offer

• The ability to have real impact on mission-critical workflows

• The chance to use state-of-the-art tech to solve novel problems with mission partners

• The opportunity to define your role through time as we grow

• Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact

Position Overview

As an early engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in developing our core technology platform, leveraging LLMs and other models to enable an ambitious and novel feature set focused on accelerating document-centric compliance, security, and search workflows for users in the DOD, civil agencies, and commercial organizations. You'll work within a system that embraces modern AI application techniques in order to get the absolute most out of state-of-the-art models.

We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, diverse technical background, and a willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow. You'll be expected to be able to communicate complex technical concepts with all members of the team, and lead product efforts involving multiple team members with varying levels of technical literacy.

Key Responsibilities

• System Design: Help design the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application.

• System Implementation: Write code within a small team, being able to strike a reasonable balance between velocity and writing maintainable code.

• Product Development: Work with users and other team members to help define and refine product requirements, and translate them into a roadmap and code.

• Strategy and Culture: As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve.

Qualifications

• US citizen and able to pass background check

• Be eligible for a US DoD security clearance (more here)

• 4+ years as a professional software engineer

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Proactive mindset, with a knack for identifying opportunities and taking initiative and ownership

• Experience with NLP problems and toolsets

• Experience with system design

• Experience interacting with end-users

• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles/best practices

• Proficiency in python and typescript

• Experience with LLMs and AI application techniques

The base salary range for this role is between $160K-$220K with the opportunity for significant equity, commensurate with a Series A stage opportunity. However, this is just an estimate - starting pay will be based on a number of factors, including qualifications & experience.