AI Product Engineer

The role

You will build demos, automate internal workflows, and ship features across products like Terminal Web, LND, and new products. You will work across the company on various projects using AI-native tools.

What you will do

• Build demos and developer experiences that show what is possible on Lightning.
• Automate and augment internal workflows by partnering with engineering, product, business development, and marketing teams.
• Build tools, scripts, MCP servers, and integrations to make the company faster.
• Ship features across products including Terminal Web, LND, and new products.
• Write production code and prototypes.
• Work autonomously with minimal direction.
• Context switch across projects and teams.

Required qualifications

• Build and ship production-quality software.
• Have a portfolio, GitHub profile, or set of projects that demonstrate building and shipping.
• Use AI-native development tools as part of daily workflow.
• Comfortable across the full stack including TypeScript, React, Go, and Python.
• Strong product instincts to translate between technical and non-technical contexts.
• Familiar with agentic AI patterns: tool use, MCP, multi-step workflows, and integrating LLMs into real systems.
• Self-directed with a bias toward action.

Nice to have

• Understanding of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, L402, or Taproot Assets.
• Experience building developer-facing demos, sample applications, or technical content.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Experience at a small, high-growth company where wearing many hats was the norm.
• Go experience

About the company

Lightning Labs builds the infrastructure that makes Bitcoin work as a global payment network. Their protocols are used by developers and serve as rails for AI agents to pay for services and transact autonomously.