Staff Product Engineer — Real-Time UI for AI Research

group-surge; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Job summary

group-surge is building a founding Product Engineering team to own customer-facing product experiences, including web apps, dashboards, and real-time streaming interfaces for researchers and engineers.

You will lead frontend development with TypeScript and React, design scalable architectures, and collaborate across physics, research, and platform teams to ship end-to-end features from concept to deployment. Equity and growth await in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience delivering production‑grade, user‑facing products.
• Proven track record building customer-facing products, not internal tools.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript and React or comparable frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of frontend architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration and independent work capability.
• Experience with APIs, backend integrations, real‑time systems, and streaming data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build customer-facing web applications, dashboards, and workflow interfaces.
• Develop interfaces that support real‑time updates, streaming results, comparisons, and partial failure handling.
• Build scalable frontend architecture with performance, accessibility, observability, and component design as core priorities.
• Partner with platform engineers, physicists, researchers, and future product managers to shape product direction and user experience.
• Take ownership of product features from concept through design, development, deployment, and iteration.
• Contribute to the technical direction and engineering standards of an early‑stage product organization.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Real-time streaming

APIs

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

group-surge is building a founding Product Engineering team to own customer-facing product experiences, including web apps, dashboards, and real-time streaming interfaces for researchers and engineers.

You will lead frontend development with TypeScript and React, design scalable architectures, and collaborate across physics, research, and platform teams to ship end-to-end features from concept to deployment. Equity and growth await in a fast-moving startup.