Essential AI’s mission is to deepen the partnership between humans and computers, unlocking collaborative capabilities that far exceed what could be achieved today. We believe that building delightful end-user experiences requires innovating across the stack - from the UX all the way down to models that achieve the best user value per FLOP.

We believe that a small, focused team of motivated individuals can create outsized breakthroughs. We are building a world-class multi-disciplinary team who are excited to solve hard real-world AI problems. We are well-capitalized and supported by March Capital and Thrive Capital, with participation from AMD, Franklin Venture Partners, Google, KB Investment, NVIDIA.

What you’ll be working on

• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design and implement core infrastructure and systems powered by foundation models for data workflows in enterprises

• Explore, iterate and build useful and elegant user interfaces that improve interaction between users and models. The user experience and interface will be critical in improving the underlying models and collecting human feedback

• Be deeply engaged with our design partners to understand their requirements and iterate quickly with them on prototypes and customizing our product to their needs

• Have a chance to guide and impact new kinds of software enabled by LLMs to improve valuable enterprise workflows

What we are looking for

• 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience.

• Experience with modern web tooling and frameworks like TypeScript, React, Redux, Webpack, etc.

• Experience working closely with designers, building flexible, composable libraries and components.

• Pride in delivering high-quality, maintainable, observable, debuggable features.

• You enjoy translating user requirements into easy to use and intelligent interfaces that map to the underlying technology

• You enjoy bringing data to life using visualization tools or novel dashboards

• Demonstrated interest in building products for AI / LLMs

• (Bonus) Experience going 0->1 in a B2B enterprise setting

• (Bonus) Experience with WebGL, d3.js, Jupyter Notebooks is a plus.

We encourage you to apply for this position even if you don’t check all of the above requirements but want to spend time pushing on these techniques.

We are based in-person in SF. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.