Software Engineer (LLM Products)

Blue Rose Research helps Democrats win elections and advance progressive causes. We work with campaigns in battleground races up and down the ballot and major Democratic, progressive, and advocacy organizations across the country to produce the research and build the tools they use to decide what to say and where to spend.

We produce opinion research at a scale unmatched in politics, put it directly in decision-makers’ hands, and build tools on top of that data that we distribute widely across the progressive ecosystem. You’ll be joining a team of decorated engineers, data scientists, and political analysts who have quietly helped shape how the progressive ecosystem communicates for years.

We are hiring a product-focused engineer to help build a new generation of AI-powered products: conversational interfaces, autonomous research agents, and tools that turn large amounts of data into information a person can act on in seconds. You’ll be talking to internal and external users to understand their goals. You’ll be working with our political research team to understand how they develop strategic guidance. You’ll turn that into product ideas, UX designs, and production code. This role is for a builder-designer who is just as comfortable in Figma as in a codebase.

Your ultimate objective will be helping Democrats win the 2026 midterms and laying the groundwork for a successful presidential election in 2028. Timelines are tight, the work changes week to week, and the problems are often ambiguous.

We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, and health benefits, and a work environment that will support your differences. While the work is remote, we do have an office in NYC and a number of folks who work in-person regularly - both in NYC and at shared workspace meetups in DC. Most of our work happens on East Coast time.

You will:

• Design and build end-to-end features for products where an agent and humans are working together.
• Build products that present AI-generated output, uncertainty, and citations in a way people actually trust.
• Work closely with political researchers, data scientists, and other engineers to turn ambiguous problems into simple, usable software.
• Use AI tools and coding agents to move fast, and know when a slicker interface actually matters versus when it’s polish nobody needs.
• Talk to users and internal stakeholders to understand what’s confusing, slow, or untrustworthy about existing tools, and fix it.
• Dive head first into the world of political strategy to build systems that encode a deep understanding of the user’s goals and thought processes.

Our ideal candidate likely:

• Has 6+ years of experience as a product engineer, full-stack engineer, or designer-engineer hybrid, with a portfolio of shipped products you can point to.
• Has strong product and UX instincts: you can critique a flow, sketch an alternative, and explain the tradeoff in plain language.
• Is comfortable using coding agents to build quickly, but without compromising quality. 
• Has hands-on experience building products on top of LLMs: chat interfaces, agents, retrieval-augmented tools.
• Understand how to use human annotations efficiently to encode human expertise into AI systems.
• Has an eye for visual and interaction design; familiarity with tools like Figma is a plus.
• Is energized by ambiguous problems.
• Is motivated by Blue Rose Research’s mission and interested in learning the progressive political ecosystem. Prior political or civic-tech experience is welcome but not required.

We don’t expect every applicant to have expertise in every area listed above. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match the description. Many of our team members have taken an unusual path to get to where they are today, and our unique and diverse perspectives make us more effective. We also believe strongly in our team’s ability to learn and grow. Join us!

The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $210,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.