Senior Software Engineer, AI

Overview

Bubble is building AI-powered development workflows to empower everyone to create software. Our AI visual development platform enables anyone, whether they’re first-time entrepreneurs or enterprise teams, to take an idea from prompt to fully-functional, scalable reality across web, iOS, and Android — all on one platform, all without writing or managing a single line of code. We are the only full-stack, cross-device no-code platform on the market with over 5 million users in over 100 countries.

We’ve achieved significant milestones: after finding product market fit and eight years of bootstrapping, we raised a $100 million Series A and are one of the fastest-growing companies in the New York tech ecosystem. More than just launching products, people are turning their ideas into real businesses. Bubble’s community has enabled ventures to grow from initial investments to multi-million-dollar valuations.

We are expanding our AI Engineering Team to build next-generation AI-powered development workflows. Our goal is to enable AI-assisted full-stack development, allowing users to describe their applications in natural language and have AI generate, modify, and enhance their apps seamlessly. As a Senior AI Software Engineer, you will help define and build the future of AI-powered development ’ll work on LLM-driven product features, design agentic workflows, and develop private models trained on proprietary Bubble datasets.

You will collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and research teams to push the limits of AI-driven development.

• Drive the design and implementation of AI-powered products and features that integrate with the Bubble Editor, elevating and evolving how users build with AI.
• Iterate across the stack to make AI UX intuitive and powerful, improve the latency and accuracy of our agent and RAG pipelines, and enhance how the system understands and manipulates Bubble’s proprietary application representation.
• Build frameworks for evaluating agent performance to power both product strategy and engineering innovation.
• Translate ambiguous AI challenges into actionable engineering plans, leveraging emergent technologies and experimentation.
• Shape the direction of AI initiatives in partnership with product, engineering, and design teams to advance the platform’s capabilities.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, preferably in backend systems at high-growth startups, with AI/ML experience a plus
• Strong coding skills with Typescript, Python, or other AI-relevant languages
• Prior experience with agentic AI workflows and chatbot-style LLM interactions is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with high impact and uncertainty
• Alignment with our values: a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success, and a willingness to experiment and learn from failures

• Frontend:
  Typescript, SolidJS
• Backend:
  Typescript, Node.js
• AI/ML:
  Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), Lang Chain
• Infrastructure: AWS, CDK / Terraform, ECS, Redis, Postgres
• Data & AI Workflows: JSON-based app representations, proprietary datasets

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $183,000 to $237,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

For this role, Bubble is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US and are within the New York City metro area.

We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly. For those who enjoy working from our Manhattan office on a more regular basis, we offer catered lunches, and happy hours, among other fun perks.

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

• Comprehensive health coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Wellness and work enablement stipends
• Generous PTO
• A Sabbatical program

Let’s democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply. If you don’t meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we’d still love the chance to review your application. At Bubble, we encourage people from all ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Bubble does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

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