Member of Technical Staff
ImbueSoftware
Pay
$170K–$350K
per year
Work mode
Hybrid
Full Time
Location
Level
Mid
San Francisco, CA at a glance
- Rent
- #2 of 51$2,680/mo+46% vs US avg
- Weather
- #17 of 51295 mild days0 hot · 0 cold
- Income tax
- #1 of 5113.3% top rateCalifornia
What you need
- Built and shipped 0-1 products or projects
- Very comfortable writing Python
- Excited to work on open source code
- Passionate about engineering best practices
- Self-directed and independent
What you'll do
- Build across entire stack: APIs, infrastructure, model tooling, product features
- Shape product direction and build 0-1
- Understand customer needs and contribute to roadmap
- Thrive in ambiguity and work across the stack
- Build open source AI tools
About Us
Imbue is a radically different AI company.
We believe that data should belong to you, humans should come before technology, and everyone deserves to own a personal team of AI agents. We believe in a future of open agents that you can modify to do exactly what you want.
We’re building a suite of tools to make tech serve humans, and making it open source.
Some first projects include
- Studio: A custom digital HQ for building personalized software, apps, and tools
- Bouncer: A social media feed filter that removes what you don't want to see and retrains your algorithm
- Sculptor: An interface for programmers to run coding agents in parallel and stay in flow
- mngr: A command-line tool for managing agents
- Vet: A standalone tool that catches AI coding mistakes and reviews full PRs
- Offload: A tool that automatically distributes your tests to run in isolated sandboxes
- Latchkey: A command-line tool to integrate local agents with third-party APIs
- Darwinian Evolver: A near-universal optimizer for code and agents
And we’re just getting started. If you’re excited about building a future with open agents, say hi!
We're supported by investors like Nvidia, Simon Last (co-founder of Notion), and Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), with $200M raised at over $1B valuation.
Summary
We are looking for software engineers with strong engineering foundations and a deep curiosity to solve technical problems for the benefit of humans. In this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape our product and help build 0-1—not just the technologies that we use, but the overall direction of our product as it evolves. You will be responsible for building across our entire stack, understanding customer needs, and contributing to our product roadmap.
This role is broad: you might design APIs, build infrastructure, improve model tooling, or shape new product features, depending on where the need is greatest. We're looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy working across the stack, and are excited about building open source AI tools. This role can be onsite at our San Francisco headquarters or remote.
You Are
• Someone who has built and shipped projects or products 0-1
• Very comfortable writing Python
• Excited to work on open source code
• Passionate about engineering best practices
• Self-directed and independent
• Excellent at getting things done
Compensation and Benefits
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
• Lunch provided daily to onsite employees
• $250 lifestyle stipend per month
• Generous budget for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc
• Actively co-create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture
• Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work
• Frequent team events, dinners, off-sites, and hanging out
• Compensation packages are highly variable based on a variety of factors. If your salary requirements fall outside of the stated range, we still encourage you to apply. The range for this role is $170,000–$350,000 cash (plus equity)
How to Apply
All submissions are reviewed by a person, so we encourage you to include notes on why you're interested in working with us. If you have any other work that you can showcase (open source code, side projects, etc.), certainly include it! We know that talent comes from many backgrounds, and we aim to build a team with diverse skillsets that spike strongly in different areas.
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About Imbue
Imbue is an independent research lab that trains foundational models to develop AI agents that can code. The company's AI models are optimized to perform well on its internal benchmarks for reasoning.
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