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Lightfield

Software Engineer (Early Career)

San Francisco, California, United States +1

Location
San Francisco, California, United States · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$160K – $180K a year
Posted
3 months ago

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The top of this role’s range, $180K a year, is 31% below the median of $259K for engineering jobs in San Francisco (middle half $215K – $315K, 4,022 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About Lightfield

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.

About the role

We’re looking for a creative, and versatile engineer who is eager to tackle the challenge of building scaled, performant features and systems that deliver exceptionally innovative AI product experiences.

At Lightfield, engineers take ownership of projects from inception to impact, collaborating across functions and pushing the envelope on what’s possible in applied AI systems development. You’ll work alongside a talented team to deliver industry-leading solutions and contribute to Lightfield product and technical vision

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with product leaders to identify customer problems, scope requirements, and implement solutions.
  • Build and maintain full-stack product features and systems, end-to-end, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Develop observability and metrics to enable smooth operation, proactive issue detection, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and help shape engineering culture and practices.
  • Contribute to building a world-class engineering team through recruiting, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing.

Who you are

  • You’re excited about Large Language Models (LLMs) and the opportunity to build systems that support and leverage them.
  • You have the ability to ramp quickly on tech stack that features TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering, with a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Thrives in ambiguity, able to independently drive projects and deliver results in a fast-moving environment.
  • Clear communicator, capable of articulating technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Passionate about building products customers love, ensuring our CRM is intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful early equity
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 3 weeks of PTO
  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
  • 3 months of paid family leave
  • Wednesdays work from home
  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
  • 401k plan
  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

Source

Posted by Lightfield on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:27 UTC; the original is the reference.

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