Senior Product Engineer, Discourse Graphs

The role

You will design, build, and test new ways of doing collaborative science. You will turn promising ideas into prototypes and develop tools for researchers to read and write claims and evidence.

What you will do

• Design, build and test new ways of doing collaborative science
• Develop ways for researchers and coding agents to read and write claims and evidence
• Create an overlay for manuscripts showing claims and evidence support
• Build a knowledge base for research institutes from publications, notebooks and meeting notes
• Put early versions of tools in front of researchers
• Make plugins easier to start with
• Turn promising ideas into prototypes
• Carry successful prototypes through to something the team can maintain

Required qualifications

• Built software that people chose to use
• A record of shipping user-facing products from early prototype to something people rely on
• Fluency in TypeScript and a modern front-end stack
• Comfort moving between the interface, the data layer and the APIs that join them
• Use AI coding tools every day
• Take responsibility for what lands in the repo
• A habit of talking with users
• Working alongside designers and other engineers

Nice to have

• Experience building with large language models, such as agent tools, MCP servers or retrieval over structured data
• Experience with knowledge graphs
• Experience with research software
• Experience with a scientific field

Benefits

• A flexible approach to working hours and remote working
• Astera-sponsored health, vision and dental benefits for employees
• Onboarding help from peer product teams

Before you apply

• Provide a CV, a short note about something you built that changed after watching people use it, a description of previous work, and a link to something you built
• Indicate availability and preference for employment or contract
• Process includes a 30-minute call, a 90-minute working session, a talk with founders, and two references

About the company

Discourse Graphs is an open-source project that helps research teams write down, link and share their questions, claims and evidence. It is built by a small team across North America, Europe and India.