Staff Engineer, AI/ML Platform & Product

Praxis, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited token usage for development

High compensation

Employee-friendly equity terms

Macbook Pro + stipend

Health, dental, vision insurance

Un-chaotic working environment

Opportunity to lead

Job summary

Tanagram is hiring for a role spanning frontend, backend, and AI infrastructure. You’ll work across the stack with TypeScript+React, Python/Go, and LLM tooling to deliver user-ready features.

We value action, decisiveness, and visible progress, with hybrid work in San Francisco and NYC; strong candidates may work remotely. You’ll collaborate closely, iterate rapidly, and shape foundational capabilities while owning meaningful product decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience building 0 to 1 products, either as a founder, or early engineer at a funded startup.
• Hands-on experience with the latest AI models, with a strong intuition about model capabilities, the behavioral nuances of each, and how to prompt them to get the best results.
• Data science experience, especially around clustering and anomaly detection.
• Clear and thoughtful communication on technical and strategic topics: at this stage, you’ll be helping build the foundations of our company. You should have ideas/opinions about almost everything we do, and you should be forthcoming with your thoughts (even if it means being disagreeable).
• Well-crafted, tastefully-design work examples.
• Bonus points: Experience working on programming language tooling: compilers/parsers/indexers (e.g. LLVM, tree-sitter, SCIP) or type systems (e.g. Typescript itself or Sorbet).

Responsibilities

• Talk directly to users: understand their requirements, build what they ask for, ask for their feedback, follow up as needed, and iterate based on what they say.
• Craft delightful product interactions.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to our product and foundations (e.g. propose improvements to our core product; add database indices to better serve a feature; build internal tooling to manage the user experience around a feature).
• Other things that may come up from time to time to move our company forward (or keep the lights on).
• Collaborate closely with teammates and share learnings openly — we value thoughtful discussion as much as rapid iteration.
• Share and promote your work publicly (e.g. on Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc).

Skills

0 to 1 product

AI model knowledge

Data science

Communication

Tools

LLVM

tree-sitter

SCIP

TypeScript

Job description

Tanagram is hiring for a role spanning frontend, backend, and AI infrastructure. You’ll work across the stack with TypeScript+React, Python/Go, and LLM tooling to deliver user-ready features.

We value action, decisiveness, and visible progress, with hybrid work in San Francisco and NYC; strong candidates may work remotely. You’ll collaborate closely, iterate rapidly, and shape foundational capabilities while owning meaningful product decisions.