Remote Staff Research Engineer Job in United States GitHub

Who you are

• You are a generalist with some areas of deeper knowledge. Hybrids will feel at home on this team. We will also consider candidates who have specialized in a relevant field.
• You are an effective and inclusive communicator, comfortable with remote communication practices. Next’s currency is ideas; the health of our team, our execution, and our results rests on our ability to communicate well.
• You are comfortable collaborating with teammates to figure out what work needs doing, then splitting up that work and doing it. Ideating alone is natural and common, but projects staffed by one individual don’t tend to survive. Your teammates are the first ones you must persuade with your ideas.
• You are comfortable reading source code.
• You are comfortable picking up new technology stacks in the normal course of work.
• Experience creating rapid prototypes that demonstrate a concept to stakeholders and enable decision making.
• Experience identifying and justifying research goals in situations of ambiguity and executing towards those goals without explicit direction.

Desirables

• Understanding of GitHub’s industry and business context
• Experience with one or more frontend technologies
• Experience with LLMs
• Experience with backend technologies
• Experience with open-source software
• Experience with operating production systems
• Experience with other areas relevant to our mission

What the job involves

• You will work closely with a small group of experienced and talented researchers to explore the future of software development and build the next big thing in tech
• You will be responsible for building prototypes, dreaming big about future software, and creating concepts that inform GitHub’s leadership and roadmap
• You will work in squads to identify and debate ideas, execute everything needed for a working prototype, and support bets with working prototypes
• You will deal with UX challenges and figure out how to turn interesting technological ideas into reliable products
• You will be comfortable collaborating with teammates to split up work, ideate, and ensure project survival through effective execution

Application process

• Not provided