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About this Software Engineer, Agent Harness role at LM Studio

LM Studio · Onsite · New York City

LM Studio is used by millions of people around the world to run AI on their own computers, and now with Bionic - also in the cloud. Our values prioritize putting the human in the center, and creating tools that we want to use ourselves, and recommend to our friends and family.

As a team, we work with high technical intensity and personal responsibility. We are looking for curious, self-motivated, creative, and technically excellent teammates to join us and build the future of human-AI interactions in software.

The Role

We are looking for an Agent Harness Software Engineer to build the core agent system behind Bionic, LM Studio’s agent for work and code. You will make open models effective at working with codebases, documents, files, software tools, and the user’s computer.

Open models vary widely in how they reason, call tools, use context, and recover from mistakes. You will build the software that handles those differences and gets the best possible agentic performance from models running locally, on linked devices, and in LM Studio's inference cloud.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience building production software involving language models, developer tools, or automation

  • Strong understanding of tool calling, structured model output, context construction, and streaming inference

  • Experience building stateful systems that perform multi-step work and recover cleanly from failures

  • Excellent TypeScript and general software engineering fundamentals

  • Deep interest in open models and a practical understanding of their strengths and limitations

  • Works with high technical intensity and takes personal responsibility for the finished product

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the agent harness that powers Bionic

  • Make local and cloud models reliable at using files, search, Git, the shell, web tools, and document tools

  • Integrate new open models and optimize how they perform in the Bionic agent harness

  • Manage conversation history, working context, tool results, interruptions, and recovery

  • Build repeatable evaluations and diagnostics for understanding where and why an agent fails

  • Constrain the model in a smart way so it remains useful

  • Work across Bionic, the LM Studio runtime, and LM Studio cloud to improve the complete system

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity grants

  • Great medical, vision, dental healthcare plans

  • Catered team lunch / expensed dinners in the office

  • Flexible PTO

  • Flexible WFH

  • Sun-drenched office in SoHo in NYC

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How this Software Engineer salary compares

This role pays $250,000/yrin line with the typical range for Software Engineer roles.

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