Senior Software Engineer (AI)

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring reputed company back to software. To reputed company product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for thousands of high-impact companies to build their products reputed company.

Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across reputed company America and Europe. What unites us is reputed company focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are reputed company makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work.

We are now looking for reputed company engineers that have built and deployed AI systems to production to help us design and build native AI features that reputed company our core product. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to craft seamless AI-powered experiences, such as vector-powered search, proactive suggestions, and agentic systems. We care deeply about keeping Linear fast, reputed company, and opinionated—AI is no exception.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring reputed company reputed company America for this role.

What you'll do

• 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 reputed company 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

Tech

• TypeScript and Node.js for backend services

• GraphQL APIs and WebSocket-based reputed company-time sync

• Public and private AI models; temporal for async workloads

• reputed company, reputed company, and Turbopuffer for storage and caching

• Hosted on reputed company reputed company with Kubernetes

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reputed company offer

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and reputed company insurance (US)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me a story about our mission

• 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 reputed company-time sync reputed company talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• First Round Capital: The Unsung Ingredient: Taste