Senior / Staff Product Engineer, AI

Department: Product

Location: North America

Employment Type: FullTime

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 25,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America and Europe, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

We’re looking for experienced engineers who have shipped applied AI systems to production and want to define what the agent-native future looks like. We are building intelligence into the core of Linear, enabling the product to orchestrate coding, proactively move work forward, and power-up every software team.

You’ll work closely with product and design to transform foundation models into structured, reliable workflows embedded deeply in the core of Linear. We care deeply about keeping Linear fast, intuitive, and opinionated—AI is no exception.

Location & work mode

Linear is a remote-first company. This role is open to candidates based in the North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you'll do

• Build AI-powered product features that feel native, fast, and delightful to use

• Work with product and design to prototype and iterate on intelligent workflows and user interactions

• Design backend services to power natural language interfaces, smart suggestions, agentic workloads, and more

• Optimize prompts, fine-tune model behavior, and evaluate performance

• Help to guide our agent platform, allowing third parties to bring agents into the core Linear experience as teammates.

• Contribute to the architecture for AI-integration infrastructure that’s reliable and privacy-aware

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale.

• Pluggable agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale

• Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support

• React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend

• Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK

• Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend

• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

• GitHub, Slack, Notion

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me a story about our mission

• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear

• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

• Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen

• How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024

• Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• First Round Capital: The Unsung Ingredient: Taste

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.