AI Special Projects Engineer

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🕒 March 31

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Lightning Labs

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1 - 10 employees

🔌 API

₿ Crypto

API • Crypto

Lightning Labs is developing Lightning, an open protocol layer designed to utilize the capabilities of blockchains and smart contracts. Their goal is to enable affordable, rapid, and private transactions globally accessible to all.

📋 Description

• Ship features, tooling, and integrations across Lightning Labs products including L402, Taproot Assets, Terminal Web, LND, and completely new products. • Build and maintain agent-facing tooling that makes Lightning Labs protocols and APIs accessible to AI agents and agentic workflows. • Create compelling, working demos that showcase end-to-end flows for developers and builders. • Identify high-signal use cases and translate them into tangible prototypes that communicate the value of building on Lightning. • Partner with business development, marketing, product, and engineering teams to identify workflows that can be automated or augmented with AI. • Build internal tools and scripts that reduce manual overhead and free the team to focus on higher-leverage work. • Operate with minimal direction. Understand the company's strategic priorities, identify where you can have the most impact, and execute. • Work closely with engineers, product, and business development to understand project context quickly and contribute meaningfully from day one on any given initiative. • Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and blockers clearly and proactively.

🎯 Requirements

• Passion for bitcoin, Lightning, and the mission of bringing financial freedom to the world. • Demonstrated ability to build and ship production-quality software using AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar. • Strong portfolio of projects, demos, or products you have built, whether in a professional setting, open source, or independently. • Comfortable working across the full stack and picking up unfamiliar codebases, languages, or frameworks quickly. • Proactive and self-directed, with a bias toward action and a track record of delivering in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. • Excellent communicator who can translate between technical and non-technical contexts. • Familiarity with agentic AI patterns: tool use, MCP, multi-step workflows, and integrating LLMs into production systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Remote work options