Public AI Research Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will work hands-on across product, frontend, backend, and open-source community work. You will track and integrate components of the open-source AI stack, ship UI and backend changes, prototype new capabilities, and improve repository documentation and contributor workflows. You will identify UX issues, implement fixes, and help maintain a coherent multi-repo platform. You must be comfortable moving across React/Svelte frontends and Python/TypeScript/Go backends, and be available for occasional team workshops.

Requirements

• Demonstrated open-source contributions or maintainership
• Comfort across frontend (React, Svelte) and backend (Python, TypeScript, Go)
• Familiarity with OpenWebUI, vLLM, LiteLLM, MCP or similar
• Strong product instincts
• Ability to ship quickly and own what you ship
• Ability to travel occasionally for workshops
• Maintainership or significant contributions in AI/ML or developer tools (nice to have)
• Experience launching or running open-source projects or communities (nice to have)
• Background in public-interest technology or research infrastructure (nice to have)
• Track record of turning multi-repo systems into coherent platforms (nice to have)

Responsibilities

• Track and integrate the open-source AI stack
• Ship product features across frontend and backend
• Build glue code and debug inference backends
• Drive open-source presence through clear issues, docs, and reviews
• Prototype new capabilities such as routing transparency and multimodal support
• Notice and fix user experience issues
• Attend occasional team workshops