Knit
Staff Full Stack Engineer
New York City (Hybrid) · Staff+
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About the role
- As an early member of the team, you'll play a key role in shaping the core of our platform and contributing to a team that will scale to 20+ engineers over the next 18 months.
- Obsess over performance, optimizing for latency across the system: caching, model selection, distillation, batching, vector search, and infrastructure efficiency (GPU/CPU).
- This includes on‑call ownership, leading incident response, and driving learning through blameless postmortems.
Responsibilities
- Own 0→1 and 1→N features across the stack, from design docs to building high-throughput data pipelines and scalable FastAPI services.
- Build AI‑native, human‑in‑the‑loop UIs. Craft React/Next.js interfaces that let users collaborate safely with agents, with transparency and explainability by design.
- Develop the "factory for the factory".
- Ship fast, safely. You'll instrument everything for reliability, write concise design docs, add robust tests, and build dashboards and alerts for features you launch.
- Level-up the team around you. Mentor and collaborate with other engineers to help make the entire team better.
- You're a 0 → 1 builder who thrives in ambiguity and has shipped products from scratch at a startup or in a hyper-growth phase. You've seen both - early-stage hustle and later-stage scale and know how to build for it.
- Operate what you build.
Requirements
- Experience with LLM/agent systems, evals, and prompt tooling
- Required Skills & Experiences
Compensation
- In accordance with New York pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000.
- Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate's level, experience, and qualifications upon joining Knit.
Company info
- A little about us… Knit is the AI-native consumer research platform helping brands automate and accelerate primary research.
- Our Company Values We are the Championship Team.
- Partner cross‑functionally with Product, AI, Design, CS; talk to customers and SMEs, and turn ambiguous problems into shipped product.
- You communicate crisply. You share your ideas effectively and thrive in tight feedback loops with product, design, and customers.
- We are the Championship Team.
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