Senior / Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will build AI-powered product features and design backend services for natural language interfaces and agentic workloads. You will work with product and design to transform foundation models into structured workflows embedded in Linear.

What you will do

• Build AI-powered product features
• 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, and agentic workloads
• Optimize prompts, fine-tune model behavior, and evaluate performance
• Help to guide the agent platform
• Contribute to the architecture for AI-integration infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company
• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals
• Experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
• Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features with visible impact on the product
• Product sensibility regarding UX, speed, and polish
• Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead
• High ownership mentality
• Thrives in a remote, async-first environment
• Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar

Benefits

• 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
• 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

About the company

Founded in 2019, Linear is a platform used by more than 50,000 companies to plan, build, and ship products. The team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia.