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title: 'Junior Frontend Engineer at Permian Labs'
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# Junior Frontend Engineer at Permian Labs

- **Company:** Permian Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/permianlabs-xyz/am9icG9zdDrmFOWG-V8iWEcgm-rCzuwv

## Job description

Frontend Engineer Company: Permian Labs, supporting USD.AI Location: New York City, in-office Employment Type: Full-time Level: 1–3 years of experience Reports to: Head of Operations

## About USD.AI

USD.AI provides AI infrastructure operators with strategic, non-dilutive financing facilities essential for their scale requirements. The protocol delivers non-recourse loans secured by GPU infrastructure and asset-level cashflows, offering capital providers exposure to liquid, transparent, and tradable credit products secured by income-producing compute assets. For more information, visit https://usd.ai/.

The Team Our team draws experience from Coreweave, DRW, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Circle, and other leading tech and financial institutions. We are Series A-funded by Coinbase Ventures, PayPal, Framework, Dragonfly, and others. We’ve built financial products facilitating hundreds of millions in transaction volume across diverse asset types. We have no middle managers and move quickly from idea to execution.We value integrity, high-agency and the ability to operate in ambiguity above all else.

## The Role

We are looking for a junior Frontend Engineer to help build the interfaces that power USD.AI — the apps borrowers, depositors, and partners use to interact with the protocol. You will work primarily in TypeScript and React, turning designs and product ideas into polished, reliable, user-facing features. You will sit close to product and backend from day one and own real features early. This is an in-person role based in our New York City office. It is a strong fit for someone early in their career who writes clean React, cares about UI craft, and wants to grow quickly by shipping alongside senior engineers. Familiarity with web3 frontend tooling is a plus.

## Responsibilities

- Build and ship user-facing features across our web apps in TypeScript and React, from design hand-off through to production.
- Translate Figma designs into clean, responsive, and accessible UI, sweating the details on polish, performance, and cross-browser behavior.
- Integrate the frontend with our NestJS/TypeScript backend APIs — wire up data flows, handle loading and error states, and help shape sensible API contracts.
- Contribute reusable, well-tested components to our shared component library and design system.
- Help build wallet-connection and on-chain interaction flows for our web3 surfaces (e.g. with wagmi/viem) — no prior web3 experience required; we will get you up to speed.
- Participate in code reviews and testing, and help keep our frontend codebase and tooling healthy.
- Debug and resolve issues across browsers and devices, keeping an eye on quality and reliability.

## Requirements

- 1–3 years of professional experience building web applications with React and TypeScript.
- Solid grasp of modern frontend fundamentals: component architecture, state management, responsive layout, and core browser APIs.
- Comfort consuming REST or similar APIs and collaborating closely with backend engineers.
- A good eye for UI detail and a habit of shipping polished, accessible interfaces from designs (Figma or similar).
- Based in NYC and able to work fully onsite.
- Eager to learn, take ownership, and grow quickly in a small, fast-moving team.

## Nice to Have

- Fintech experience or interest
- Exposure to web3 frontend tooling — or genuine interest in learning it.
- Familiarity with Node.js / NestJS, or willingness to occasionally work across the stack.
- Experience with testing frameworks, CI, and modern build tooling.
- Side projects, open-source contributions, or a portfolio you are proud of.

## What We Offer

- Base salary: USD $80,000- $120,000 depending on experience
- Long-term token incentive package.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Health & wellness reimbursements.

## About Permian Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Permian Labs builds on-chain credit infrastructure that finances AI compute hardware, enabling non-recourse loans secured by GPUs and other high-performance computing assets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (additional office in Boston, MA)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Conor Moore, Ivan Sergeev, David Choi [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/permian-labs/__w957Yr54vL1cVYGE9y9Y5KResro6ftm6tB2Fzc5xvhI)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Fintech, Blockchain/DeFi, AI Infrastructure, Software Development
- **Target customers**: AI infrastructure operators, GPU owners/HPC data centers, institutional capital providers (crypto funds, family offices, HNWIs), and DeFi depositors seeking yield.
- **Mission/purpose**: Building liquid debt capital markets for hardware and compute assets — democratizing access to advanced computing power by unlocking capital through tokenized collateral.

## Products & Services
- **USD.AI**: On-chain credit protocol that bridges digital-asset liquidity to physical AI infrastructure. It powers real-world financing for AI hardware through tokenized collateral and non-recourse loans.
- **GPU Loans**: Financing secured by GPU hardware, offering custom quotes and immediate capital access based on GPU details and setup. Loans are non-recourse and backed by compute equipment and asset-level cashflows.
- **Plasma**: A deposit product/cap facility for AI infrastructure loans; Permian Labs has scaled it to a $500M cap, with reserved capacity for institutional depositors.
- **sUSDai**: Yield-bearing token representing deposits in USD.AI; depositors earn interest and principal from real AI revenue paid on-chain (e.g., 12.7% APR on a Compute Labs loan).
- **Protocol Infrastructure**: Smart contracts, risk engines, oracle systems, and on-chain mechanisms supporting lending, borrowing, and capital markets for compute assets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding reported at **$49M** (per third-party data) with latest round a **$13M Series A** completed September 2025 (per PitchBook). Estimated annual revenue: **$1M** (third-party estimate).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Dragonfly (led seed round), Coinbase Ventures (strategic investment), Bullish Capital, Arbitrum Foundation, Breed VC, Flowdesk. Partners include QumulusAI, Compute Labs, and NVIDIA (event participation).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Structured a **$500M non-recourse financing facility** through USD.AI for QumulusAI — described as the largest onchain-based credit facility ever created.
  - Hit the **$500M cap for Plasma** in September 2025.
  - Raised USD.AI deposit caps on Arbitrum to $250M due to strong demand.
  - LinkedIn followers grew **+186.9% year-over-year**; active job postings grew **+200% month-over-month**.
  - Expanding into APAC and Middle East capital origination.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in on-chain credit for AI infrastructure**: Permian Labs is one of the earliest protocols specifically financing GPU/compute assets via DeFi liquidity.
- **Non-recourse loan structure**: Loans are secured by hardware and asset-level cashflows, reducing borrower risk and enabling larger facilities.
- **Tokenized collateral**: Bridges traditional hardware assets with digital-asset liquidity, creating a new asset class for institutional and retail depositors.
- **Strong institutional backing**: Investors include Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, Bullish Capital, and Arbitrum Foundation.
- **Proven real-world traction**: Live loans on Arbitrum, first monthly payments from Compute Labs, and a record $500M facility demonstrate operating credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale USD.AI**: Expand deposit capacity, launch new products (e.g., Plasma), and increase the volume of GPU-backed loans.
- **Geographic expansion**: Build capital origination in APAC and the Middle East, targeting $5M+ depositors such as crypto funds, family offices, and HNWIs.
- **Institutional facilities**: Develop bespoke, syndicated loan facilities for institutional investors and large AI infrastructure operators.
- **AI integration**: Drive AI strategy and productization across borrower-facing web products and internal tools.
- **Deepen compliance and risk infrastructure**: Strengthen KYB/AML, wallet screening, and loan portfolio monitoring as the protocol scales.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work environment**: Employees work a combination of remote and on-site in New York and Boston; some roles are fully in-office or remote-friendly.
- **Distributed team**: Workforce spans the US, Morocco, Thailand, and North Macedonia, offering a global, cross-cultural environment.
- **High-growth, well-funded startup**: With ~15–16 employees and $49M in funding, new hires can expect rapid ownership and direct impact.
- **Intersection of AI, blockchain, and fintech**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure at the convergence of three transformative industries.
- **Active hiring**: Open roles include Tech Lead (Sr. Fullstack Engineer), Capital Markets Analyst, Head of Capital Markets (APAC/ME), Compliance & Ops Manager, Ops Associate, Junior Frontend Engineer, and General Counsel.
- **Notable perks/culture signals**: Early-career roles come with rapid ownership; engineering culture emphasizes shipping scalable, secure fintech/DeFi features and collaboration with founders.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Permian Labs](https://linkedin.com/company/permian-labs)
2. [Built In – Permian Labs Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/permian-labs)
3. [Built In – Permian Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/permian-labs/jobs)
4. [Tracxn – Permian Labs Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/permian-labs/__w957Yr54vL1cVYGE9y9Y5KResro6ftm6tB2Fzc5xvhI)
5. [PitchBook – Permian Labs Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/675270-

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