Senior / Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

Linear; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Employee-friendly equity terms incl. 0

Daily meal and coffee stipend

Paid co-working space or desk

Health coverage

5 weeks paid vacation + holidays

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2

Regular team events & off-sites

Remote-first with no commute

Job summary

Linear, a remote-first company, is seeking experienced engineers who have shipped applied AI systems to production. Join a lean, high-output team building agent-native workflows that power software development for thousands of teams worldwide.

You'll work with product and design to transform foundation models into reliable, scalable features, focusing on UX, speed, and polish while shipping end-to-end with ownership and async collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company.
• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals across the full stack.
• Experience shipping end-to-end features with measurable impact.
• User-centric mindset with focus on UX, speed, and polish.
• Ability to shape problems with minimal PM overhead.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered product features that feel native, fast, and delightful.
• Collaborate with product and design to prototype intelligent workflows.
• Design backend services for natural language interfaces and agent workloads.
• Optimize prompts and model behavior; evaluate performance.
• Guide our agent platform to let third parties bring agents into core Linear experience.
• Contribute to AI-integration infrastructure that is reliable and privacy-aware.

Skills

5+ years experience

React

TypeScript

Full stack

UX & polish

Ownership

Ship end-to-end

Tools

React

MobX

styled-components

GraphQL API

Node

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Redis

Job description

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 50,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, 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, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. 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

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company

• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)

• Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product

• Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right

• Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution

• High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped

• Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team

• Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar

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.

• 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

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows

• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday

• Paid co-working space or desk

• Health coverage (based on country requirements)

• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays

• 4 months paid parental leave

• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter

• Regular team events and off-sites

• Remote-first with no required commute

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me https://linear.app/readme a story about our mission

• Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear

• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear

• Why and how we do work trials https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear Linear blog post

• Crafting quality that endures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCil7YNhNCU Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen

• How we use AI in design https://designerfund.substack.com/p/ai-design-linear feature of Linear's design team

• Scaling our real-time sync engine https://linear.app/blog/scaling-the-linear-sync-engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• First Round Capital: The Unsung Ingredient: Taste https://review.firstround.com/stripe-square-linear-product-taste/

• Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear

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.