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

We are developing Lightning: an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.

📋 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