AI Prototyper Residency

About the role

We're looking for an AI Prototyper to explore how frontier AI capabilities can shape the future of Dia. This is a builder's role focused on turning ambiguous product bets into working software that informs what to build and how to build it.

Responsibilities

• De-risk new directions. Take an ambiguous bet, evaluate the technical paths available, build working examples, and clearly demonstrate the tradeoffs between approaches.
• Prototype at the frontier. Work hands-on with the newest models, agent SDKs, and tooling patterns as they ship, and translate them into working software inside Dia.
• Build to hand off. Deliver prototypes with deliberate, explainable architecture decisions, so production teams can extend your work rather than rebuild it.
• Work in the open. Share your learnings, approaches, and demos as you go, so your explorations shape the team's thinking and product decisions.
• Sharpen our tooling. Improve our prototyping and evaluation infrastructure so the team can explore and validate ideas faster.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building software.
• You come from an engineering background or a product/design background with strong technical understanding.
• Previous experience as a founder is a plus.
• You build with AI constantly. You've made real things with frontier models: agents, tools, prototypes, or shipped features.
• You're a relentless learner with strong EQ and communication skills. You can articulate the “why” behind your experiments clearly and are pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.

Requirements

Most of our team is based in North American time zones and requires that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

Benefits

This is a 3-month Residency contract-to-hire position. Hourly pay range is $100-$150 per hour, based on experience and qualifications. Some of our best hires come through our Residency Program.

Pay

Compensation details as mentioned above.

Schedule

The Browser Company is a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, New York.