Full-Stack Product Engineer

Full-Stack Product Engineer

Transluce is a fast-paced AI start-up building the public tech stack for understanding and debugging AI systems. We build world-class, AI-backed analysis tools and use these to set industry standards for evaluation. We are a non-profit with a mission to steer the development of AI for the public good.

About the role:

We're looking for an exceptional product engineer to lead the design and development of our flagship products. You will have a central seat at the table and work directly with leading experts in AI to shape the future of human-in-the-loop model understanding. As a mission-focused non-profit, you'll also contribute to software with high direct impact (used by governments to inform AI policy) and cross-organizational reach (our stakeholders lie across frontier labs, academia, and startups).

Core responsibilities:

• Design and build intuitive frontend interfaces for model understanding, such as:
• Docent, for analyzing long agent transcripts
• Monitor, for understanding internal model activations
• Implement scalable backend systems to power those interfaces
• Create APIs, SDKs, and protocols that interface between our products and external libraries
• Engage continuously with customers to gather requirements and feedback
• Maintain open source repositories and actively engage with the developer community

Qualities of a strong candidate:

• Excels in rapid cycles of design, implementation, testing, and iteration
• Has strong design taste and a sharp attention to detail
• Writes well-designed code that enables team-wide collaboration
• Is proficient with our current stack:
  Python, Typescript, Next.js, AWS, serverless container runtimes
• Has experience engaging with customers and stakeholders
• Bonus: practical experience with language models (e.g., building apps on top of LLM APIs) and familiarity with fundamental ML concepts (e.g., ability to critically assess claims about model performance)