Software Engineer, Business Technology

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking product engineers to build internal products at the intersection of engineering, product, and design. You will own outcomes, work directly with users to understand needs, and build abstractions that unlock capabilities for everyone.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years shipping production software, experience with Python/TypeScript/React, and a track record of delivering end-to-end products independently.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building production software, ideally full-stack.
• Experience building platforms, primitives, or internal tools for others to build on top of.
• Proven track record of shipping products independently.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly design, prototype, and ship full-stack features across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
• Consult with users and stakeholders to understand workflows and identify high-impact opportunities.
• Identify patterns in user requests and turn them into primitives, platforms, or middleware.
• Build tools that maximize autonomy and creativity for less-technical users.
• Make product and prioritization decisions, not just execute on specs.
• Iterate quickly based on feedback to improve UX.
• Adapt to new tools, frameworks, and domains as the product evolves.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React

Full-stack

Platform development

Independent shipping

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

the company is looking for product engineers to build internal products. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and design—you'll own outcomes, not just tasks. You'll work directly with users to understand their needs, identify the patterns behind their requests, and build the right abstractions that unlock capabilities for everyone.

What you'll do:

• Rapidly design, prototype, and ship full-stack features across backend, frontend, and infrastructure
• Consult with users and stakeholders to understand workflows and identify the highest-impact opportunities
• Spot patterns across user requests and reduce them into primitives, platforms, or middleware that support a variety of use cases—not just one-off features
• Build tools that maximize autonomy and creative freedom for less-technical users
• Make product and prioritization decisions, not just execute on specs handed to you
• Iterate quickly based on feedback to continuously improve the user experience
• Pick up new tools, frameworks, and domains as the product evolves

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 6+ years of experience building production software, ideally full-stack
• Can operate as a team of one when needed—you're independently capable of taking a product from idea to shipped, even if you won't always work that way
• Think in systems and abstractions—you see the platform behind the feature request
• Care about empowering users, not just building for them
• Own outcomes, not just code—you care whether the thing you built actually solved the problem
• Are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and operating with ambiguity
• Hold yourself to a high bar without needing external pressure

Strong candidates will have:

• Proficiency across the stack (we use Python, TypeScript, React)
• Experience building platforms, primitives, or internal tools that others build on top of
• A track record of shipping products independently—not just contributing to larger efforts

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$320,000—$405,000 USD

LogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experienceRequired field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceMinimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the positionLocation-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that the company recruiters only contact you from@the company.comemail addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of the company. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate the company recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visitthe company.com/careersdirectly for confirmed position openings.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At the company we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to the company, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

the company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

• competitive compensation and benefits
• optional equity donation matching
• generous vacation and parental leave
• flexible working hours
• lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

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