Engineer in Residence: Slidelang

career•Mountain View, CA

5d•$30,000 - $30,000•Onsite

About The Position

Teams can now prompt AI for slide content, but the output is usually brittle, static, and hard to edit. Business and technical teams still need a reliable way to turn structured ideas, data, charts, and visuals into decks that are editable, consistent, reviewable, and ready to present or publish — and prompt-to-static-image tools don't get them there. This role is to build a hosted deck-as-code authoring platform where humans and AI agents create structured deck specs that compile into editable, reviewable, presentable, and shareable slides. The wedge is agent-assisted structured deck generation for repeatable business and technical presentations, using a deck compiler, browser editor, and validation and repair rules to eliminate hand-tuned layout work.

Requirements

Strong backend and full-stack engineering: you have shipped production systems involving compilation, rendering, or document processing, with comfort in compilers, parsers, DSLs, or document-as-code, plus React or browser-editor experience.
Demonstrated experience building GenAI products with retrieval, tool use, guardrails, and production feedback loops, including AI-assisted authoring or generation workflows.
Product judgment for human-in-the-loop automation where the right answer is usually to remove busywork rather than replace the human outright.
Ability to iterate with early users and translate ambiguous feedback into working product decisions.
You actively use AI coding assistants and modern GenAI tools as part of your build workflow.
US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.

Nice To Haves

Experience with presentation tools, Figma or design tooling, or visual layout engines.
Background in data visualization, chart rendering, or image generation pipelines.
Experience with CLI or plugin developer tools, marketplace or plugin packaging, collaborative document editing, or publishing workflows.
Founder or founding engineer experience shipping a 0-to-1 product.

Responsibilities

Build the end-to-end hosted authoring app: AI-assisted deck planning, the deck compiler, the browser editor state model, the validation and repair pipeline, and the presenter/publish flow behind a hosted API.
Partner with AI Fund internal teams and 2 to 3 external deck-heavy teams to define pilot scope, success metrics (time-to-first-draft, percent of slides accepted after light edits, layout QA pass rate, publish/share completion), data path, and the MVP cut line.
Design the ladder from prompt-assisted drafting to agent-driven deck creation through the CLI or plugin, keeping every generated deck editable, inspectable, and reviewable rather than a static artifact.
Make decisions about latency, layout validation, repair rules, and rendering reliability so generated decks are trustworthy enough to present and publish.
Work with AI Fund's build team on product wedge, technical risk, and the path from pilot to a broader deck-authoring platform.