Staff Software Engineer, AI Product

Job description

Hi, we’re The Browser Company 👋 and we’re building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they’re our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there. They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens. With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

As a Product Engineer at The Browser Company, you’ll play a key role in designing, prototyping, and shipping novel LLM-powered features that redefine how people use the internet. You’ll transform ambiguous goals into elegant solutions and set new standards for browser-based AI as we launch Dia. We’re looking for someone who is product-minded, deeply curious, grounded in user experience, and excited to define new ways of building AI products — ways that feel polished, intuitive, and delightful.

Overall you will…

• Lead, architect, and execute LLM-powered features across our products.

• Collaborate closely with Design, Membership, Data, and our Leadership teams to brainstorm, prototype, and launch new AI-powered features that enhance user experience.

• Champion a product-minded approach, ensuring every technical decision is grounded in user impact and business value.

• Sweat the small stuff to deliver high-craft, industry-leading, interaction-rich user experiences which set the bar for what’s possible.

After 1 month you will…

• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy

• Work side-by-side with other engineers on the team, fixing bugs and shipping code improvements to production

• Attend onboarding presentations about the company, product, codebase, and culture

• Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

• Pair program with a other engineers and get familiar with the pace and cadence at which we ship

• Be regularly posting feedback about using Dia in our #dogfooding channel

After 3 months you will…

• Build numerous core features for Dia, actively contribute to product brainstorms, and shape the future of Dia and it’s assistant.

• Regularly attend weekly engineering discussions, how we do code review, code style, and more

• Be familiar with our testing infrastructure, and setting best practices by contributing tests with new features

• Participate in product brainstorms to think about the future of Dia and its assistant

• Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team

• Become the point of contact for bugs and product iterations of a core product surface area

After 6 months you will…

• Have proactively shared prototypes and technical approaches for quickly exploring new product ideas

• Be leading projects from idea to launch, taking full ownership of the development lifecycle

• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them ramp onto the codebase

• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing high-craft software products, with a strong background in shipping user-facing products. Experience shipping user-facing AI features is a strong plus.

• You have hands-on experience with LLMs and are eager to apply the latest technologies.

• You’re experienced in solving ambiguous problems and have successfully owned complex technical initiatives and projects that have had an outsized impact on a business.

• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.

• Most of our team is based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

• You resonate with our company values and can continue to scale your team with these in mind

Compensation and Benefits

💰 With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs. Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer.

The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-$275,000 USD. The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

🧘🏻‍♀️ In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with the following benefits:

• comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 95% for dependents

• 401k plan

• flexible vacation policy: on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

• remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time Monday-Friday

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 USD home office stipend

• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of close to 100 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, New York. We strongly support diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

🚙 To read more about what we value as a company, check out Notes on Roadtrips on our blog.