Software Engineer, Web Platforms

LM Studio

93d

About The Position

Element Labs aims to build delightful and potent creation tools for AI. We are a small team based in New York. Everyone on the team is IC-minded, intellectually curious, self-motivated, and loves software. We care deeply about our user community and we strive to build canonical software that users and developers love. Our products include the LM Studio desktop app, our developer SDKs: lmstudio-js and lmstudio-python, our CLI lms, MLX engine mlx-engine for M-chip Macs, venvstacks which enables us to ship Python-based software, the collaboration Hub for individuals and teams, and more currently being built. We're looking for a web platform engineer to lead the development of the LM Studio Hub, lmstudio.ai, and future web surfaces. You will design and build secure, fast, and reliable experiences across Next.js (with RSC), edge/server runtimes (Cloudflare Workers/Pages), data layers, and caching. You are performance and security-minded, with a strong sense of product quality and polish.

Requirements

• Expert in TypeScript and Next.js, including RSC, routing, data fetching/caching, edge vs Node.
• Experience with Cloudflare Workers/Pages, KV, and D1.
• Strong understanding of database schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and reliability.
• Knowledge of security and networking fundamentals including HTTP, TLS, WebSockets/SSE, CSP, CSRF/XSS/SSRF.
• Expert ability to debug performance, reliability, and security issues end-to-end.
• Experience with CI/CD approaches, testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong communication skills for design docs, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the LM Studio Hub and future web surfaces.
• Design and build secure, fast, and reliable web experiences.
• Work with Next.js, edge/server runtimes, data layers, and caching.
• Design databases and migrations.
• Build server actions and gateway functions.
• Add typed KV caches and tune D1/SQL queries.
• Ship UIs that feel instant and accessible.
• Utilize expert networking and security knowledge to design resilient code.

What This Job Offers