AI Prototyper Residency

The Browser Company

4d • $100 - $150 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for an AI Prototyper to explore how frontier AI capabilities can shape the future of Dia. This is a builder's role focused on turning ambiguous product bets into working software that informs what to build and how to build it. Prototyping in this role takes many forms: some prototypes are interactive demos inside Dia; others are experiments across eval harnesses, context-engineering or, agent architecture. You’ll turn ambiguous ideas and big bets into proven prototypes that are ready to handoff to our product teams.
You'll report to our Model Behavior Lead and work closely with product and engineering leadership. You'll start with directed explorations: given a product bet, you'll evaluate the promising approaches, build working examples, and return with a recommendation and the tradeoffs behind it. Over time, we expect you to identify and propose these explorations yourself.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building software. You come from an engineering background or a product/design background with strong technical understanding.
• You build with AI constantly. You've made real things with frontier models: agents, tools, prototypes, or shipped features. Whether that happened at work or on nights and weekends doesn't matter. What matters is that you can show us what you built and walk us through how it works.
• A relentless learner with strong EQ and communication. You can articulate the “why” behind your experiments clearly and are 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

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience as a founder is a plus.

Responsibilities

• De-risk new directions. Take an ambiguous bet, evaluate the technical paths available, build working examples, and clearly demonstrate the tradeoffs between approaches.
• Prototype at the frontier. Work hands-on with the newest models, agent SDKs, and tooling patterns as they ship, and translate them into working software inside Dia.
• Build to hand off. Deliver prototypes with deliberate, explainable architecture decisions, so production teams can extend your work rather than rebuild it.
• Work in the open. Share your learnings, approaches, and demos as you go, so your explorations shape the team's thinking and product decisions.
• Sharpen our tooling. Improve our prototyping and evaluation infrastructure so the team can explore and validate ideas faster.

Benefits

• 3-month Residency contract-to-hire position
• Hourly pay range is $100-$150 per hour, based on experience and qualifications.
• remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, New York.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed