Element Labs
We aim to build delightful and potent creation tools for AI. We are a small team based in New York. Everyone on the team is IC-minded, intellectually curious, self-motivated, and loves software. We care deeply about our user community and we strive to build canonical software that users and developers love.
The Role
We\u2019re looking for a product-minded, applied AI engineer to lead our agentic work in LM Studio. You bring a scientific method mindset: design experiments, visualize results, run ablations, and explain what moves quality and speed. You know the literature and can implement from papers, but you are a practitioner first
a serious software engineer who builds robust systems fast. Your work turns into product features immediately across our app and API.
Your mandate will be to push the usefulness of on-device AI beyond what is commonly considered possible. Your work will directly translate into features we ship to millions of home and business users.
Qualifications
3+ years building production software (Python or C++. TypeScript a plus).
Empirical research mindset: design experiments, visualize results, run ablations.
Interest in building products for users and keeping a feedback loop with customers.
Strong algorithms background.
Compensation Range: $165K - $250K