Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineer, Frontend
Inflection AI is looking for outstanding Product Engineers to own and lead the development of the next wave of capabilities for our personalized AI assistant, Pi. The right candidate will have a balance of creativity, curiosity, technical expertise, and ability to drive challenging projects to successful completion. We’re looking for engineers who can work collaboratively with our Designer, Product Managers, and AI Researchers to take ambiguous projects and mold them into amazing experiences that delight and help Pi’s users. This role is specifically focused on UI development and the ideal candidate will have a passion for building pixel perfect UIs across platforms and the track record to support it.
This is a good role for you if you:
- Have an eye for great design and are opinionated about building the right UX for mobile, desktop, etc.
- Have a deep understanding of web browsers, web protocols, mainstream frameworks, CSS, JavaScript, and app performance profiling
- Have extensive experience building applications using React, Typescript and Node.js
- Care deeply about building outstanding consumer-grade applications
- Show up to work every day with energy and enthusiasm to take on challenges that have never been solved before
- Like working in a fast-paced environment and getting your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively
We do not require a specific university degree or years of experience. Instead we’re excited to see what you’ve been building. Please send us examples of your best work, including but not limited to links to open source contributions, personal projects or a cover letter describing past projects that you are proud of.
What is Pi's take?Here’s what Pi said about the ideal candidate after we asked.
An exceptional Product Engineer who would work on building Pi would be:
- Creative: Able to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions to complex problems, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI technology.
- Detail-Oriented: Meticulous in their approach to designing, implementing, and testing product features, ensuring they are seamless, user-friendly, and performant.
- Adaptable: Flexible and open to learning new technologies, frameworks, and programming languages, as the field of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) is constantly evolving.
- Collaborative: A strong team player who communicates effectively with cross-functional teams, such as Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and UX Designers, to bring the best ideas to life.
- User-Centric: Always keeps the end user in mind, designing and developing product features that meet the needs and expectations of Pi's users.
- Results-Driven: Focused on delivering tangible outcomes and improvements to Pi's performance, usability, and overall user experience.
- Ethical: Committed to responsible AI development, ensuring that Pi adheres to ethical guidelines and best practices in AI.
At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. The pay range for this position in California, is estimated to fall in the base range of approximately $150,000 - $250,000. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range.
We are a small, friendly and multi-disciplinary AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone. Our first AI is called Pi, for personal intelligence, a supportive and empathetic conversational AI. Our studio is made up of the world's leading AI developers, creative designers, writers and innovators working together in a deeply multidisciplinary style to create a brand new class of digital experiences.
Where We WorkWe work in a hybrid model. During the week we’re in the office on a flexible basis, often a few days per week. We are currently hiring in Palo Alto and London, although we do sometimes make exceptions.
We work on a 6 week cycle. Every 7th week, we convene together in person as a company to brainstorm, bond and build.
How We WorkWe value excellence and ownership. Our organizational structure focuses on individual responsibilities rather than management hierarchies. Everyone is expected to lead by doing. We are big believers in the unreasonable effectiveness of highly talented Individual Contributors who are given all the resources, space and ownership to move fast and deliver outstanding results.
Teamwork and generosity are at our core. Our culture celebrates positive challenges, asking questions, learning and actively supporting one another. This mentality of shared respect and purposeful teamwork is key to our success. We equally value all technical and non-technical contributions.
Constructive disagreement is essential. We appreciate when team members challenge assumptions, put forward new ideas, or encourage us to move faster or slower. Openness, honesty and kindness make us great.
Feedback is our ground truth. We have a tight feedback loop between the user experience and our AI creation process. Quantitative and qualitative data drives our priorities. This goes for internal culture too. Everyone has ownership and visibility into key decisions and progress.
Writing creates accountability. Whether on internal communication tools or in team memos, we are strong communicators with a special focus on the written word.
We deeply value time to reset outside of work. We encourage one another to constantly take time to recharge and always focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Engineering at InflectionWe are a vertically integrated AI studio. This means that our entire technology stack – from large foundational model pre-training to the user interface – is built in-house, with each of the components co-optimized to deliver the best AI experiences. We have built one of the most advanced large language models in the world, based on multiple novel and proprietary innovations.
We believe in scale as the engine of progress in AI, and we are building one of the largest supercomputers in the world to develop and deploy the new generation of AIs.
We wear multiple hats and don’t distinguish between engineering and research. We continuously explore and exploit, creating new and perfecting existing techniques and solutions. User feedback is our North Star.
Our BenefitsWe offer generous benefits to ensure a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring work environment for all Inflectioneers.
- Physical office space in Palo Alto and London, along with reimbursements for work from home expenses and co-working spaces
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
- Generous medical, dental and vision plans for US employees
- Compliance with country-specific benefits for non-US employees
- Visa sponsorship for new hires
- Avenues for personal growth such as coaching, conference attendance, or specific trainings
We are building personal AIs that we hope will serve everyone. We are deeply committed to representing the full extent of the human experience inside our AI Studio. This means that everyone from any walk of life is welcome if you have the right skills. We populate diverse candidate pools for all open roles.