Engineering Lead, The Browser Company
AI Product
$250-310k
+ An equity-optimized offer
More information about location
Building Arc, a new web browser
Open for applications
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$250-310k
+ An equity-optimized offer
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a better web browser— one that enables people to build their own home on the internet, and arms them with the tools they need to be more focused, organized, and in control.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who is product-minded, deeply curious, and excited to build with LLMs
- 8+ years of experience building and leading high-craft software products, with a strong background in shipping user-facing products or developing ML features from 0 to 1
- You have hands-on experience building with LLMs, an understanding of how they work, and a genuine curiosity to go deep on the technology
- You have a strong track record of coaching and mentoring software engineers—prior direct experience with ML teams is not required, but you should be able to bridge disciplines
- You’re experienced in solving ambiguous problems and have successfully owned complex technical initiatives and projects that have had an outsized impact on a business
- You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
- Most of our team is based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone
- You resonate with our company values and can continue to scale your team with these in mind
What the job involves
- As a technical leader at The Browser Company, you’ll be instrumental in our team’s ability to design and ship novel LLM-powered features that redefine how people use the internet
- You'll transform ambiguous goals into elegant solutions, helping your team of ML and Product Engineers set new standards for browser-based AI as we launch Dia
- In this role, you’ll help define how we build software in 2025—not through traditional UI or API layers, but through prompts, evals, hill-climbing, and fast feedback loops grounded in real usag
- You’ll apply the latest learnings and models to enhance our product use cases, set technical direction, evolve our architecture, and invent new ways of building AI products — ways that are fast, flexible, and grounded in user experience
- Lead, architect, and execute LLM-powered features across our products
- Support and mentor a talented team of product and machine learning engineers, helping them grow both technically and with a product mindset through fast iteration cycles
- Experiment with and integrate the latest ML and AI models, fine-tuning them for specific use cases while balancing quality, speed, and resource constraints
- Collaborate closely with Design, Membership, Data, and our Leadership teams to brainstorm, prototype, and launch new AI-powered features that enhance user experience
- Proactively improve, identify and implement engineering-wide processes and architecture with an eye towards performance, stability, and maintainability
- Champion a product-minded approach, ensuring every technical decision is grounded in user impact and business value
- Sweat the small stuff to deliver high-craft, industry-leading, interaction-rich user experiences which set the bar for what's possible
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Work side-by-side with other engineers on the team, fixing bugs and shipping code improvements to production
- Attend onboarding presentations about the company, product, codebase, and culture
- Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android
- Get familiar with how we build AI-powered products, and our prompting tools, evals infrastructure, and fine-tuning stack
- Pair program with a other engineers and get familiar with the pace and cadence at which we ship
- Be regularly posting feedback about using Dia in our #dogfooding channel
- After 3 months you will..
- Have worked on several medium to large sized AI-powered projects across the codebase
- Have a crisp understanding of how Dia's assistant works, the various models involved, how we maintain quality, and how we improve the assistant's capabilities
- Regularly attend weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
- Participate in product brainstorms to think about the future of Dia and its assistant
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- Become the point of contact for bugs and product iterations of a core product surface area
- Have built out mechanisms to assess quality and performance, and be working with product teams to improve the efficacy of our models and heuristics
- After 6 months you will..
- Collaborate with our CTO, managers, and other technical leads to shape the product roadmap for Dia's assistant, working on features like personalization and memory and Dia's agentic features
- Have proactively shared prototypes and technical approaches for quickly exploring new product ideas
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
- Be familiar with some C++ and how we interact with the underlying browser engine
- Have proactively improved and suggested engineering-wide processes and architecture with an eye towards performance, stability, and maintainability
- Be leading projects from idea to launch, taking full ownership of the development lifecycle
- Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them ramp onto the codebase
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: June 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Our take
The browser is a universal piece of technology, enabling people to access all that they want from the internet. However, the browser itself is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company is building a new browser named Arc; designed to think quicker, reduce user work, and facilitate the modern way in which the internet is used.
The Browser Company, founded in 2019, sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Currently, brand dedication for browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background, which keeps their performance issues in the background as well. The Browser Company aims for Arc to be intelligent, and overcome problems such as overwhelming hits, online distraction and information being hidden under irrelevant results. Its competitors of course include some of the biggest names in tech, but it hopes to stand out by creating a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will create its own space in the market through uniqueness in performance.
The Browser Company’s browser was released for mobile and Windows in 2024 and has been met with positive reviews. The company has raised impressive funds that will contribute to the further development of Arc and the release of Dia - an AI-focused browser - set to be released in 2025.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Jan 2023
$56.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $136.8m
Company benefits
- Choose-Your-Own-Compensation Plan: When we give you a job offer, we’ll actually give you two different offers — one that is focused on having a higher salary and one focused on higher equity. Candidates can choose either offer (or any numbers in-between) when they accept.
- Best in the Biz Insurance: We provide employees with full coverage medical, vision, and dental insurance and a free One Medical membership to help you keep you and your family healthy. We cover 100% of employee plan costs and up to 90% for dependents.
- Napping During the Workday: Some of us are better in the mornings, others are more productive in the afternoon. People should take breaks when they need to. If you’re on our team, we trust you to get your work done — our policy is: work when it makes sense for you!
- Take Time Off, Please!: We believe that people do their best work when they’ve rested and had valuable time off. So rather than having a maximum number of days off, we actually have a recommended minimum vacation of 20 days a year. Take time off when you need it and also just when you feel like it.
- Extremely Flexible Parental Leave: We are proud to offer an extremely flexible 12 weeks of parental leave — for any parent regardless of gender and for birth, adoption, surrogacy, or fostering. Take the 12 weeks all at once, or split up days to slowly transition back to work — we’re accommodating to everyone’s different situations! Birth mothers also qualify for an additional 6 weeks of medical leave.
- Design Your Dream Home Office: We are a remote first company. About half of our team currently lives outside of New York and across 5 different time zones. So if you need some stuff to make working from home a bit easier, we offer a $1000 stipend for anything you need to get comfortable.
- Cozy Office in Brooklyn, Wooo!: If you do happen to live in the New York area (or you want an excuse to visit) you can come into our beautiful office in Williamsburg. Coming into office is entirely optional, some of us come almost every day and some of us come in once a week. No obligation, we just genuinely like each other!
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Josh Miller
(CEO)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(Engineering)Principal/Owner of Enso Code. Former Interim CTO of Thirty Madison and of Jumprope. Co-founder and previous CTO of Zinc.
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