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Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Early Career)

Lightfield · Cambridge, MA · On-site

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About Lightfield

Lightfield connects to your email, chat and business systems and does the legal work before it reaches your team. It gathers context, applies your policies and past decisions, and presents the finished work for your approval. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

If you want to be part of the AI wave and are drawn to the systems challenges of a product used by both people and agents, this role is for you. Lightfield's infrastructure supports human-interactive requests, agent-driven queries and actions, scheduled agents, and continuous ingestion of email, calendar, and meeting data.

What they're looking for

  • Strong computer science fundamentals and a degree in CS or a related field
  • Depth somewhere systems-shaped: research experience, coursework you went deep on (operating systems, databases, distributed systems, security), a systems-flavored internship, or a project you can talk about for an hour
  • Curiosity about how things actually work. You'd rather understand the query planner than work around it
  • Ownership: you finish things, and you care that they keep working after you ship them
  • Clear communication about technical decisions and tradeoffs
More about this role

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.

If you want to be part of the AI wave and are drawn to the systems challenges of a product used by both people and agents, this role is for you. Lightfield's infrastructure supports human-interactive requests, agent-driven queries and actions, scheduled agents, and continuous ingestion of email, calendar, and meeting data. Based in our Cambridge office, you'll work on the databases, scheduling, permissions, and distributed systems that keep these workloads fast, isolated, and reliable as they share the same underlying customer data.

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