Plan Less. Get Out More. AI planning for everyday life. Backed by Techstars.
About the role
Ship real engineering work every week in the same codebase and on the same problems as the rest of the team- your credibility and your tooling both come from being in the work Accelerate and compound our R&D workflows: optimize day, to, day engineering, build and improve custom skills and agents, push toward fully agentic overnight workflows where they make sense
What they're looking for
- Agentic development fluency: Staff or principal background at an AI-native company that has genuinely figured out agentic workflows. Specific things you've shipped, MCP integrations, custom agents, eval frameworks, codegen pipelines, not slides about it
- Public signal: You write or build in the open on agentic patterns, MCP, evals, or codegen. People in this space already follow your work. If we've heard of you and are following your work, we want to talk
- Current individual shipping record: You earn the right to set the bar by being excellent at the work and staying in it. You do not want to step back from shipping
- AI fluency with judgment: You use AI to move dramatically faster while questioning its assumptions. You know when output looks right but isn't, and you build systems that catch it
- Leveling instinct: You're genuinely excited about bringing the team along, not just building ahead of everyone. Navigating that gap, with real excitement about it, is something you've done before
More about this role
Every engineer at Tern builds with AI. AI adoption and fluency is demanded, and is world class across the entire org. If you'd rather design from a distance, or build ahead of everyone in isolation rather than teach and pair, this isn't the right fit. If you're the person who has been the top 1% on agentic workflows for a while and you're hungry to build the team around you into something genuinely exceptional at this, we want to talk.
Tern is a venture-backed software company on a mission to reshape the $127B travel agency industry by giving power back to the entrepreneurs who built it.
Nearly 98% of travel agencies are small businesses. These businesses have been chronically underserved by technology. We're here to change that. Our platform helps travel advisors run more efficient, professional, and profitable operations, giving them the modern infrastructure they need to lead the next chapter of travel.
But the impact goes beyond business. Travel advisors help clients move more intentionally through the world. When a traveler works with an advisor, they're more likely to avoid overtouristed hotspots and more likely to spend their dollars in places where they can do real good....
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