# SDK Software Engineer, AI ## Summary - Organization: LaunchDarkly - Location: Remote - Type: Full-Time - Department: Engineering - Status: active - Posted: [object Object] - Updated: [object Object] - Closing Date: N/A - External Apply: Yes - External Apply URL: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7647797003 ## Details - Salary: N/A - Experience: 2+ years - Education: N/A - Team: N/A - Reporting To: N/A ## Description **About the job About The Job** As an SDK Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s AI Configs team, you'll build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with daily. You’ll drive the development of the SDK that enables customers to control, monitor, and optimise their GenAI functionality. You’ll primarily work in Python and Typescript, but you’ll also be exposed to other languages in LaunchDarkly’s stack. When working on our SDKs, you’ll contribute to much more than thin client wrappers. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents with a strong emphasis on performance, concurrency, and resilience – all while following idiomatic practices for their tech stack. LaunchDarkly’s AI Configs team is on a mission to manage the complete software development lifecycle for GenAI features, from configuring to benchmarking to observing and beyond. This team has a huge opportunity ahead of it; we're growing fast, and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story. **Responsibilities** Contribute to the development of our open-source AI SDKs, including implementing new features and keeping up-to-date with the latest development practices Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features Drive key improvements to key developer experience touch points within the SDK Actively maintain our open-source repositories Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions **Qualifications** - Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers - 5+ years of experience with Python and Typescript - Experience working with AI SDKs such as the OpenAI and Vercel AI SDKs - Strong computer science fundamentals - Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment - Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary - Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks - Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability - Experience contributing to open-source software - Remote - US **Pay** - Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 3: - Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $171,200 - $235,400 - Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $154,100 - $211,860** - Zone 3: All other US locations - $145,500 - $200,090 ** LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits, in addition to salary. **About LaunchDarkly** Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business,s but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximise the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. **The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:** - Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages - Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalising features to customer cohorts - Maximising the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimise - Coordinating the release and optimisation of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types - Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate obased onrace, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com. ## Responsibilities None ## Skills None ## Tags None ## Organization - Name: LaunchDarkly - Website: https://launchdarkly.com - Industry: Software Development - Size: 501-1,000 employees - Founded Year: N/A - Description: LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.