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Software Engineer, Application

LM Studio· Engineering
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New York City$175k - $275kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Application Software Engineer to craft polished, intuitive, and performant experiences across LM Studio products, owning ambitious features from concept through launch and collaborating with design to turn AI capabilities into fast, thoughtful software.

Responsibilities

  • Build polished, intuitive, and performant UI for the LM Studio desktop application and LM Link
  • Collaborate with our design team to craft and ship top-tier experiences and workflows
  • Dream up the interfaces of the future state of agentic interactions, always asking the question: how will agents help LM Studio users accomplish their goals?
  • Obsess over the reliability and performance of what you build, profiling and testing across edge cases
  • Diagnose problems across application, runtime, native platform, and operating system boundaries

Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience building application frontends, ideally for an Electron or native desktop product
  • Deep expertise in TypeScript and React, or Swift and Objective-C
  • Know how to profile application performance and trace problems through the software stack
  • Understand the operating system beneath the application, including processes, threads, memory, filesystems, networking, and platform APIs
  • Love the craft of high-end UI
  • Think and build in terms of the overall user workflow while still sweating the small stuff
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, shipping-oriented environment

Skills

Required:Frontend developmentTypeScriptReactPerformance profiling
Nice to have:Swift/Objective-C

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity grants
  • Great medical, vision, dental healthcare plans
  • Catered team lunch / expensed dinners in the office
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible WFH
  • Sun-drenched office in SoHo in NYC
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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