Senior / Staff Product Engineer, AI

Details

• Build AI-powered product features that feel native, fast, and delightful to use
• Work with product and design to prototype and iterate on intelligent workflows and user interactions
• Design backend services to power natural language interfaces, smart suggestions, agentic workloads, and more
• Optimize prompts, fine-tune model behavior, and evaluate performance
• Help to guide our agent platform, allowing third parties to bring agents into the core Linear experience as teammates.
• Contribute to the architecture for AI-integration infrastructure that’s reliable and privacy-aware
• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company
• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
• Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product
• Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right
• Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution
• High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped
• Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team
• Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar
• Agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale
• Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support
• React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend
• Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK
• Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend
• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s
• GitHub, Slack, Notion
• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
• Paid co-working space or desk
• Health coverage (based on country requirements)
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Remote-first with no required commute
• Read Me a story about our mission
• Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear
• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear
• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post
• Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen
• How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024
• Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite
• First Round Capital: The Unsung Ingredient: Taste