Member of Technical Staff - Prime Agent

Prime Intellect

$150K — $300K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with expertise in TypeScript and Python.
  • Proven track record of building developer tools and platform products.
  • Strong focus on user experience and product design.
  • Experience developing reliable systems with real-time and asynchronous features.
  • Awareness of the latest trends in AI, models, and tooling with ability to apply to product decisions.
  • Strong bias toward delivery, ownership of code, and sound engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

  • Create user-friendly interfaces for agent interaction and task management.
  • Oversee features from concept through deployment and maintenance.
  • Engage with users to gather insights and drive product enhancements.
  • Collaborate across teams to develop cloud agents and integrations.
  • Partner with researchers to translate innovative agent capabilities into practical product features.
  • Enhance internal tools, automation, and developer experience.

Benefits

  • Full visa sponsorship and assistance with relocation costs.
  • Professional development budget for education and events.
  • Regular team outings and opportunities for conference attendance.
  • Chance to influence the future of open-source AI development.
Full Job Description
Role Impact

You'll help build Prime Agent, our open-source coding and research agent. This is a generalist software engineering role spanning product development and the underlying agent systems. You'll own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring, and ship at the pace of an early-stage company tackling one of the most important problems in AI.

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Candidates must be based in San Francisco and work in person. This is not a remote role and is not open in other locations.
Core Responsibilities
  • Build intuitive interfaces for working with agents and managing their tasks
  • Own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and operation
  • Work with users to understand their needs and turn feedback into product improvements
  • Work closely with teams across the Prime ecosystem to build cloud agents, self-improving loops, and integrations for traces and post-training
  • Work closely with researchers to turn new agent capabilities into reliable product features
  • Contribute to internal tooling, automation, and developer experience improvements
Technical Requirements
  • Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript and Python
  • Experience building developer tools, dashboards, platform products, and working with agent harnesses
  • Strong product judgment and attention to user experience, with the ability to turn complex capabilities into intuitive workflows
  • Experience building reliable systems with asynchronous execution and real-time interactions
  • Awareness of what's happening at the frontier - new models, agent capabilities, and tooling - and the ability to translate that into product decisions
  • A bias toward shipping, ownership of production code, and pragmatic engineering judgment
Nice to Have
  • Experience building coding agents, agent harnesses, or developer tools powered by LLMs
  • CLI or terminal UI development
  • WebSocket / real-time systems experience
  • Open-source contributions
  • Prior experience at an early-stage startup
What We Offer
  • Cash compensation range of $150,000-$300,000 with significant equity incentives
  • In-person collaboration with the Prime Agent team in our San Francisco office
  • Full visa sponsorship and relocation support
  • Professional development budget for courses and conferences
  • Regular team off-sites and conference attendance
  • Opportunity to shape the future of open AI development
Growth Opportunity

You'll join a team of experienced engineers and researchers working on cutting-edge problems in AI infrastructure. We believe in open development and encourage team members to contribute to the broader AI community through research and open-source contributions.

We value potential over perfection - if you're a strong generalist engineer who is passionate about democratizing AI development, we want to talk to you.

Ready to help shape the future of AI? Apply now and join us in our mission to make powerful AI models accessible to everyone.

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