Senior Product Engineer, Discourse Graphs

Astera Institute

Remote regions

Global

Salary range

$120,000–$215,000/yr

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About the role:

  • We're looking for a senior product engineer to join the Discourse Graphs team in a fully remote, fixed-term role of 12 to 14 months.
  • The project is open-source, philanthropically funded, and built by a small team across North America, Europe, and India.

What you'll do:

  • Build tools for researchers to write down, link, and share questions, claims, and evidence.
  • Work on features like manuscript overlays, research knowledge bases, and integration with coding agents.
  • Collaborate with a designer and product manager, turning promising ideas into prototypes and maintainable software.

About you:

  • You have a record of shipping user-facing products from prototype to production.
  • You're fluent in TypeScript and modern front-end stacks, comfortable across the interface, data layer, and APIs.
  • You use AI coding tools daily and take responsibility for what lands in the repo.

Our offer:

  • Full-time for 12 to 14 months, with salary of $120,000 to $215,000 depending on experience and location.
  • Fully remote with some North American hours overlap, or in person in Emeryville, CA.
  • Benefits include health, vision, dental, flexible hours, and remote work.

Astera Institute

Astera Institute is a philanthropically funded nonprofit that builds open-source tools for collaborative science, including the Discourse Graphs project for research teams. The small, distributed team works across North America, Europe, and India with a flat culture where engineers pull their own work from a shared queue.

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