{"id":188381,"url":"https://alion.io/job/brilliant-future-engineer","title":"Future Engineer","company":{"id":23364,"name":"Brilliant","domain":"brilliant.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/brilliant","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":91000,"max_usd":173000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":713},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-05-08T18:03:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-05-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T03:43:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":537,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":537},"description":"The Role\nNote: This particular posting serves as a \"future consideration\" form for engineering, as opposed to a formal application to any current openings. Unfortunately, we are not hiring early/mid-career software generalists at this time.\nEngineers at Brilliant work in small, elite teams alongside colleagues from Product, Design, and Data to achieve the best possible outcomes for our learners and business. While we’re already happy with our current team size and velocity, we occasionally hire exceptional software engineers with demonstrated histories of transformative impact to further elevate the team. You can apply to this role to be considered for such opportunities in the future.\nEngineers we’ve hired through this general interest form in the past include former founders, early employees who grew into staff engineers at companies that achieved massive growth, and experienced engineering leaders who returned to the individual contributor path. These sorts of folks make up a significant percentage of our current team, and we’re interested in talking with more of them to explore what sort of transformative impact they might be able to achieve here.\nWhat we'll look for:\nBring new features from conception to completion, helping people around the world to learn more effectively by contributing code across our entire stack.\nBe mindful of the “big picture” from both a technical perspective and a business one, keeping your pod on track in terms of “building the right thing” and “building the thing right”.\nExercise a high degree of autonomy and technical authority on a team that trusts you to do what’s right for our users but is there to support you when you need it.\nContribute to a culture of excellence within your pod, setting high standards for candor and mutual accountability, and striking a careful balance between velocity and quality.\nAdvocate for initiatives that will improve developer experience for Brilliant’s engineers and user experience for Brilliant’s users.\nFrequently ask: How does this impact our learners?\nWho are you?\nYou have at least 5 years of professional experience in web-focused software engineering, with meaningful experience going both deep and wide across the domain.\nYou’re motivated by building robust, maintainable, AI-interoperable software systems that drive user and business outcomes.\nYou’re capable of working across the stack, and you’re most energized when owning feature implementations end-to-end, including in third-party tools and data systems.\nYou believe in using the right tool for the job - even when it’s an unfamiliar one, and especially when it’s a boring one.\nYou enjoy solving technical challenges in a way simple enough for an intern to understand and build upon. 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