Python OSS Engineer

Home Jobs Python OSS Engineer L Python OSS Engineer LangChain On-site San Francisco, CA Full-time 30 days ago Apply on LangChain About Us At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale. With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world. Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater. About The Team The Python Open Source team maintains and evolves the core LangChain Python ecosystem used by millions of developers worldwide. We focus on building reliable, well-designed abstractions for developing AI agents and integrating them with real-world tools and systems. The team works closely with the open-source community, incorporating feedback and contributions while ensuring the core libraries remain stable, scalable, and production-ready. Our work defines the developer experience for building AI applications with Python. About The Role In person 5 days/week in San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA (SF preferred) We’re looking to add a core maintainer to the LangChain team. This person would be responsible for maintaining and improving the LangChain Python package. Improving the core abstractions and runtime of the langchain and langgraph packagesImproving documentationAnswering user questions and resolving issuesUse langchain to build example applications What You'll Do Improve the core abstractions and runtime of the LangChain and LangGraph packagesImprove documentation across the LangChain ecosystemAnswer user questions and resolve issues from the communityUse LangChain to build example applications that demonstrate how to build production AI systems What You'll Bring 5+ years of software engineering or applied machine learning experienceStrong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersThe ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and view unstructured environments as an opportunity to identify impactful work and define the future success of the companyAn ownership-minded approach to work, with the ability to manage your work efficiently and effectively without the need for close supervision Compensation Annual salary range: $160,000- $240,000 Compensation Philosophy We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations. Benefits Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more. Interested in this role? Applications are handled on LangChain's site. Apply Now Related Jobs View all AI Engineering S Senior Product Engineer, Growth & Lifecycle Infrastructure - Music & Audio Stability AI Remote Full-time T AI Researcher, Core ML (Turbo) Together AI On-site Full-time C Account Solution Architect CoreWeave On-site Full-time T Backend Software Engineer - Data Platform & AI Data Products Together AI On-site Full-time S AI Applications Ops Lead, GPS Scale AI On-site Full-time P Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) Perplexity Remote Full-time Back to all jobs Related Jobs View all AI Engineering S Senior Product Engineer, Growth & Lifecycle Infrastructure - Music & Audio Stability AI Remote Full-time T AI Researcher, Core ML (Turbo) Together AI On-site Full-time C Account Solution Architect CoreWeave On-site Full-time T Backend Software Engineer - Data Platform & AI Data Products Together AI On-site Full-time S AI Applications Ops Lead, GPS Scale AI On-site Full-time P Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) Perplexity Remote Full-time