AI Solutions Engineer

About Stainless

Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.

We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and other great investors.

We are currently 15-20 people based primarily in NYC (just west of SoHo) and looking to grow quickly over the next 3 years.

Position Overview

AI Solutions Engineers build and deepen the technical relationship between Stainless and our most important users. You’ll work directly with some of the most innovative technology companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cloudflare. You’ll be the voice of the customer to the rest of the company, advocating for them and directly influencing the roadmap of the company both immediately and longer term.

To excel in this role you will have strong independent judgement and can write software in a wide variety of programming languages (maybe from prior experience or picked up on the job). You learn quickly and can jump into unfamiliar contexts (and repositories) with ease. You’ll be directly contributing to some of the most used and visible codebases today and collaborating with some of our most important users directly.

Responsibilities

Overall you’ll:

• Work directly with large customers like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cloudflare to:
• Evolve their SDKs through the release of new features (Run Tools, Structured Output, Streaming Helpers)
• Directly contribute to their SDKs by writing custom helpers, utilities and extensions for advanced use cases like Server Sent Events, websockets and more to come. You’ll be working on some of the most exciting technical releases
• Do all of this across all languages that Stainless supports
• Track and advocate for these users’ needs
• You’ll be building a technical roadmap for these users growth on Stainless
• Advocating for them internally
• Write great docs, help build a great website, do what needs done
• Write code both internally and for external customers. Some examples:
• improving our Codegen to handle new use-cases
• writing examples and demos for potential users
• Location:
• Either:
• 3 days p/wk in our physical office location in Manhattan, New York
• PST Remote
  

Profile

You might be a good fit for this role if:

• You have broad polyglot interest/experience – comfort working across multiple programming languages, and enthusiasm to build proficiency with even more
• You have a true passion for developer experience and empathy for developers from all backgrounds (junior, non-traditional, expert power-user etc)
• You love connecting with new users: learning their needs and coming up with creative solutions to solve them
• You care deeply about great communication about technical subjects, from terseness of a tweet to an expanded tutorial in documentation
• You’re a quick learner, self-motivated, and able to execute quickly whilst maintaining high quality
• You love crafting a great product. You appreciate and show extreme detail-orientation in articulating papercuts and finding every possible corner of polish
• Experience building and consuming APIs
• Built and/or maintained a popular open-source project
  
  

Benefits

• We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.
• Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).
• Paid commuter benefits & similar.
• Paid team lunch during workdays.
• Flexible PTO plus 2 weeks of companywide vacation a year.