Software Engineer, Application
LM Studio · New York City
LM Studio is used by millions of people around the world to run AI on their own computers, and now with Bionic - also in the cloud. Our values prioritize putting the human in the center, and creating tools that we want to use ourselves, and recommend to our friends and family.
As a team, we work with high technical intensity and personal responsibility. We are looking for curious, self-motivated, creative, and technically excellent teammates to join us and build the future of human-AI interactions in software.
The Role
We are looking for an Application Software Engineer to craft polished, intuitive, and performant experiences across our products. You will work closely with design to turn new AI capabilities into software that feels fast, thoughtful, and natural to use.
You will own ambitious features from concept through launch, working across web technologies and native platforms as the problem requires. This role is for someone who cares deeply about product quality and pairs exceptional UI craft with the technical depth to profile performance, understand the operating system underneath, and solve problems across application and systems boundaries.
Responsibilities
Build polished, intuitive, and performant UI for the LM Studio desktop application and LM Link
Collaborate with our design team to craft and ship top-tier experiences and workflows
Dream up the interfaces of the future state of agentic interactions, always asking the question: how will agents help LM Studio users accomplish their goals?
Obsess over the reliability and performance of what you build, profiling and testing across edge cases
Diagnose problems across application, runtime, native platform, and operating system boundaries
Qualifications
3+ years experience building application frontends, ideally for an Electron or native desktop product
Deep expertise in TypeScript and React, or Swift and Objective-C
Know how to profile application performance and trace problems through the software stack
Understand the operating system beneath the application, including processes, threads, memory, filesystems, networking, and platform APIs
Love the craft of high-end UI
Think and build in terms of the overall user workflow while still sweating the small stuff
Thrive in a fast-paced, shipping-oriented environment
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity grants
Great medical, vision, dental healthcare plans
Catered team lunch / expensed dinners in the office
Flexible PTO
Flexible WFH
Sun-drenched office in SoHo in NYC
Our Interview Process
We are looking for engineering excellence and strong values / cultural fit. If your application appears to be a good match we'll reach out to schedule an initial call. If all goes well, we will proceed to 2-3 technical interviews. The final step in the process is an onsite interview in our New York office, where you will work through several more technical sessions focused around system design and architecture, meet the team and see how we work.
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