Senior Python Engineer

Job Description

Jan is a desktop application that turns computers into thinking machines, enabling open-source LLMs and remote API AIs on Windows, Mac, or Linux. Since its January 2024 release, it has been downloaded over 500,000 times. With a vision to redefine human-machine collaboration, Jan aims to revolutionise our interaction with technology. It ensures complete ownership, privacy, and full customisation for its users.
We are a fully remote, open source company. We target the global market, but operate as a lean, bootstrapped company.
Responsibilities:

Platform Development: Design, develop, and maintain a high-performance Python-based platforms
Codebase Structuring: Build and structure codebases from scratch (0 to 1), make decisions on framework, library selections
Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and optimize the performance of the application using best practices in Python development
Collaboration: Work closely with Research team to understand Training and Inference requirements
Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for code, processes, and systems to facilitate knowledge sharing within the team
Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously enhance the platform.

Qualifications:

Strong Python development experience, with 0 to 1 experience
Strong familiarity with Python web frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Flask, Django)
Strong familiarity with Python best practices (e.g. clean code, type checking with Pydantic etc)
Strong familiarity with AI-assisted coding (e.g. Cursor, Continue.dev, etc)
[Plus] Familiarity with LLM Training and Inference
[Plus] Familiarity with AI libraries (e.g. Huggingface Transformers, PyTorch)

Benefits:

We pay an “all-in” pay and you will cover your own insurance/medical from the amount
14 days leave (and unlimited sick days)
Annual equipment budget (once 2 month probation has been completed)

* Please submit only 1 application, as you will be considered across roles. Duplicate submissions will be automatically archived.
About Homebrew:
Homebrew is an AI R&D studio. We work in the broad area of Local AI, Small Language Models and Multi-modality.We are the creators and lead maintainers of:

 jan.ai: Personal AI (>1 million downloads)
 cortex.so: Self-hosted AI Platform
 Ichigo: Local Real-Time Voice AI