Desktop App Engineer

About the Role

We are hiring a Software Engineer in New York who specializes in Electron, React, TypeScript, and JavaScript runtime,

In this role you will work on LM Studio (desktop application) , lmstudio-js (SDK) , and lms (CLI) .

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain new features in LM Studio

• Design, implement, maintain new public and internal APIs

• Extend, maintain, test LM Studio Core SDKs

• Implement, debug, test Node daemon-level code

• Implement, debug, test Node / Electron IPC code

• Implement, debug, test Node bindings (NAPI)

• Profile, debug, improve application rendering performance

• Profile, debug, improve process memory and CPU usage

• Be an excellent communicator, contributor, and collaborator

Minimum Qualifications

• Into local LLMs and have tinkered with them in LM Studio

• 3+ years experience with Node and TypeScript

• Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols

• Strong understading of operating systems

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• You have deep understanding of JavaScript foundational knowledge such as event loops, micro tasks, prototype inheritance

• You have tinkered, and have many ideas for tinkering, with local LLMs

• You are curious about, and have investigated React really works under the hood

• You can make apps run really fast, and find out exactly why they're not fast

• You are a prolific contributor, and always been, anywhere you worked or studied

Pay and Benefits

• Equity

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

• 401K

• Company provided MacBook Pro M3 / or high performance Windows/Linux laptop

• Access to awesome hardware of all kinds

• Office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with stunning views and free gym access

Annual Salary Range:

$175,000 - $350,000

About Element Labs

Element Labs is an AI software company based out of New York, USA. We build LM Studio, a desktop application and developer platform for building on-device AI applications. Our mission is to make local AI accessible, useful, and ubiquitous. We are looking for teammates who want to take a huge swing at this mission with us.