A Note on applying to Pangram:
At Pangram, we firmly believe that genuine human expression, and our ability to communicate with each other online and through the written word, is a fundamental right- and a value worth preserving.
Please don't use AI to answer any of the questions as part of your application - we want to hear from you!
About Pangram Labs
Pangram Labs’ mission is to protect authenticity and preserve human connection in the context of the generative AI era. We build the world’s best AI detection systems. We publish research on state-of-the-art AI detection techniques and algorithms and build products to bring our technology into people's daily lives. We provide tools for individuals, institutions and companies to detect the use of AI in written content.
Pangram is a recognized thought leader in the space of AI detection. Our CEO & Co-founder Max Spero has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI and Pangram has been named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2026.
We are looking for high agency, mission-driven, and passionate builders to join our team!
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Pangram, you will build great product experiences for our users - both individuals and large organizations. You’ll work on a variety of different projects, from owning the product lifecycle from end-to-end to launching new features to designing, building, and scaling the production systems that serve our core technology to a rapidly growing user base. At Pangram, staff engineers are highly autonomous and are expected to take on ambitious levels of scope and ownership. Staff engineers at Pangram own major technical decisions, tackle our hardest scaling problems, and help shape the vision of our product and our infrastructure. This is also a hands-on, IC role, getting your hands dirty building software from end-to-end.
This is a full-time role, office-based in our Brooklyn office (5 days per week), reporting to our CTO.
What You'll Do
Own and ship product features end-to-end in both consumer and B2B verticals.
Work closely with GTM, Product, and Research functions to bring Pangram’s machine learning technology to polished user experiences
Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems
Turn design specs and prototypes into shippable, working products
Review code and raise the quality bar for code across the company
Establish and improve engineering best practices across the stack
Qualifications:
You are a strong fit for this role if you have:
8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering exceptional impact as an IC engineer across a wide range of product and engineering needs
Strong Engineering experience in our technology stack:
Python
Front-End: Modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js, Typescript)
Back-End: Proficiency in Python and Django (or comparable Python web frameworks); RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing
Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Lambda)
Comfort across the stack: front-end and back-end, with strength in either and at minimum comfort in the other.
Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools and thoughtfulness around their use
A strong sense of taste and craftsmanship, bias towards action, and clear communication skills
Interest in AI, machine learning, and LLMs; including AI safety and responsible AI
Nice to Have
Experience working at an early stage startup
Experience with browser extensions
Experience with mobile apps
Skills Required
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering significant impact as an individual contributor
- Strong Python engineering experience
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Proficiency in Python and Django or comparable Python web frameworks
- Experience designing RESTful APIs
- Experience with relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, or Lambda
- Full-stack comfort with strength in either front-end or back-end development
- Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools
- Strong craftsmanship, bias toward action, and clear communication skills
- Interest in AI, machine learning, LLMs, AI safety, and responsible AI
- Experience working at an early-stage startup
- Experience with browser extensions
- Experience with mobile apps
What We Do
Pangram's mission is to promote authenticity and preserve human connection in the context of the generative AI era. We firmly believe that genuine human expression, and our ability to communicate with each other online and through the written word, is a fundamental right- and a value worth preserving. At the core, Pangram is best-in-class AI detection software that can be applied to multiple use cases across many verticals. Pangram's core value proposition is its accuracy: a testament to the depth of the research that we have conducted that has been validated by multiple academic third party studies. AI detectors have been widely maligned by the media and the educational community, and we believe somewhat rightfully so: early AI detectors like GPTZero, Copyleaks, ZeroGPT, Turnitin, and had false positive rates of upwards of 1% (false accusations of human writing as AI), and false negatives (missing AI generated text, predicting it as human). They faced many of the issues that still plague AI detection discourse today, such as predicting that the Declaration of Independence is AI-generated and demonstrating elevated false positive rates on ESL writing. We are fighting to earn the trust of the public back by doing AI detection the right way. Public research is core to our identity. We are transparent about what we do, and put our methods out into the open because we have nothing to hide, and we are serious about building trust with our customers. We still believe we are the only AI detector that "actually works," and the only serious team that is up for solving this challenging research problem.
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