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It was supposed to be about thinking, creating, deciding. Instead it became status meetings, reporting, alignment rituals, and busywork.\nAI changes that. But the speed has created a new problem: the individual got faster than the organization. More and more work happens inside sessions between humans and agents, and the context behind that work disappears before anyone else in the company can see it.\nPalette is the shared context layer for teams and AI. We ingest signals from the tools teams already use (Slack, Linear, Notion, GitHub, calendar, email), turn them into a living map of the organization, and serve that context to the agents people work with every day.\nPalette Desktop is the app where teams put that context to work. Point it at a folder your team shares on Google Drive or Dropbox, and run agents on Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, or a local model inside it. More providers ship in regularly. It opens those agents up to the whole company, including non-engineers, and the team picks the model that fits. We shipped Desktop in May, and it's already where most of our own work happens.\nWe're 6 people in Copenhagen. Four co-founders, two founding engineers. We work with design partners across leading startups, scaleups, and household-name brands. We recently raised our pre-seed.\nThe role\nYou'll drive Palette Desktop: the app teams use to put their context to work. You'll be the first hire dedicated to our Desktop application, so the role comes with a lot of ownership.\nThis is a builder role. You work AI-native - use the tools, move fast, own the output. If the AI writes 80% of the code, great; just reason about it and ship.\nWho you are\nYou've shipped real desktop software. You care about the details that make an app feel native - fast startup, a responsive UI, updates that just work, and the platform plumbing nobody notices until it breaks. Tauri experience is ideal, but strong Electron, native macOS/Windows, or Rust-heavy app work counts too.\nDeep in one area, broad across the rest. Desktop is your home turf, but you're happy reaching into the frontend, the backend, or an AI agent loop when that's what ships the thing.\nProduct sense, agency, and curiosity. These matter to us more than a checklist.\nThe stack\nDesktop: Tauri v2, Rust, TypeScript / React / TanStack\n Frontend: Next.js (migrating to TanStack)\nBackend: Hono\nAI agents: Mastra, plus the coding-agent harnesses we run on-device\nData & infra: PostgreSQL, Redis, Inngest, Nango, Railway\nPlus: Linear, GitHub Actions, WorkOS, Cloudflare, Sentry, Incident.io, Requesty, Swarmia, PostHog, Atlas, and more\nWe're bullish on TypeScript, but we're constantly evaluating our approach and open to being challenged.\nHow we work\nCopenhagen office. Mostly in person, but around two days from home every week.\nWe aim to stay a small and lean team.\nWe're all doers and care about our craftsmanship.\nWe're constantly exploring what AI-native means to us.\nWe're obsessed with making something people actually want to use, so everyone at the company talks to customers regularly.\nWhat you get\nTop-tier salary\nSolid office in Copenhagen\nThe gear you need\nDental insurance\nLunch, snacks, and drinks at the office\nHow to apply\nApply on The Hub.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3359,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Dental insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T12:36:19Z"}],"liveness":{"score":3,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.1,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":85,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:49","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/palette-product-engineer-apps","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/palette-product-engineer-apps.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T03:28:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4891,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":109,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}