Software Engineer Enablement and Product

United States Digital Space LLC; Heidelberg; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

VSOP equity

30 days paid holiday

Statutory social insurance

Conference travel and learning

Flexible hybrid work

High-end laptop

Zusammenfassung

United States Digital Space LLC is transitioning from a research lab to customer-facing products. You will own two scopes: Enablement (internal platforms and developer workflows) and Product (externally shipped AI-enabled functionality).

You will design APIs, frontends and scalable systems for researchers and end users. You will work on bridging researchers, product stakeholders and customers, building both internal tools and external capabilities with a pragmatic, self-directed approach.

Qualifikationen

• Broad software engineering experience across backend, infrastructure and one modern frontend stack.
• Strong Python skills plus TypeScript/JavaScript or another modern frontend language.
• Experience with containers, cloud infrastructure and production delivery.
• Track record of customer-facing or cross-functional project work.
• Clear communication, strong problem solving and a pragmatic, self-directed operating style.
• Hiring at senior level; exceptional candidates with fewer years may be considered if depth and ownership are shown.
• Nice-to-have: internal developer platforms, ML infra/tools, C++ or Rust for performance-sensitive services.

Aufgaben

• Build customer-facing applications and integrations from scoping through delivery.
• Develop internal platforms and tools to reduce setup time for researchers.
• Improve researcher experience with reproducible environments, CI/CD, automation and repository standards.
• Design APIs, workflows and frontend interfaces for complex model capabilities.
• Contain technical debt through abstractions, testing and documentation.
• Act as a technical bridge between researchers, product stakeholders and users.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Frontend stack

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Containers & cloud

Customer-facing projects

Communication & problem solving

Senior-level focus

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

Hetzner

RunPod

Jobbeschreibung

the company is moving from a pure research lab toward products used by real customers. As our software engineer for enablement and product, you own two scopes.

Enablement: internal platforms and tools, developer workflows; in a sense products where the customers are your research-science colleagues.

Product: externally shipped functionality. This is the software layer around our AI: the applications through which users interact with our AI and the delivery infrastructure that unlocks them.

The boundary with our ML Product Engineer is deliberate. That role owns model serving, evaluation and inference. You own the adaptable software systems through which researchers build and users experience those capabilities.

Tasks

• Build customer-facing applications and integrations from scoping through delivery.
• Build internal platforms and tools that reduce setup time and cognitive load for researchers.
• Improve researcher experience through reproducible environments, CI/CD, automation and clear repository standards.
• Design APIs, workflows and frontend interfaces that keep complex model capabilities usable.
• Contain technical debt through thoughtful abstractions, testing and documentation.
• Act as a technical bridge between researchers, product stakeholders and the people using what we build.

Requirements

• Broad software engineering experience across backend, infrastructure and at least one modern frontend stack.
• Deep understanding of software design and complexity management: you build systems that remain easy to change.
• Strong Python skills plus TypeScript, JavaScript or another modern frontend language.
• Experience with containers, cloud infrastructure and production delivery.
• A track record of customer-facing or cross-functional project work.
• Clear communication, strong problem solving and a pragmatic, self-directed operating style.
• We are primarily hiring at senior level. We are also open to exceptional candidates with fewer years of experience who can demonstrate comparable depth, judgment and ownership.

Nice to have:

• Internal developer platforms, research tooling or ML infrastructure.
• Experiment tracking, data tooling or reproducible compute environments.
• C++ or Rust for performance-sensitive services and tooling.
• Enough exposure to ML systems to collaborate productively with researchers without being expected to build models.
• Prior startup, consulting or solutions-engineering experience.

Benefits Where This Can Go

You will shape how the company builds and ships software as we scale: the architecture, tooling, standards and developer experience. The role can grow into ownership of our platform and internal engineering, or into leadership of customer-facing product delivery. The hard part is balancing both horizons: helping the team move today while keeping the system adaptable tomorrow.

Our Culture

• are scientists at heart, with a builder's mindset,
• are open to challenge, grounded in curiosity and respect,
• welcome diverse perspectives and value thoughtful, open debate,
• focus on outcomes and real-world impact,
• foster an environment of support, inspiration, and freedom for everyone to do their best work.

Perks & Benefits

• VSOP equity: a real stake in what we build.
• 30 days of paid holiday per year.
• Statutory social insurance.
• Conference travel and role-relevant learning.
• Flexible hybrid work, with roughly one in-person team meet-up per month.
• A high-end laptop of your choice.

Tools and Infrastructure

• Python and a modern frontend stack.
• Docker, AWS, GCP, Hetzner, RunPod or comparable infrastructure.
• CI/CD, testing and developer-tooling systems.
• AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in daily work.