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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at TLDR'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at TLDR

- **Company:** TLDR
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tldr.tech/7aefaa32-da0f-4b36-9853-738d30fcb69d

## Job description

## Who We Are

🏔Product: TLDR’s mission is to increase tech's signal-to-noise ratio. Today that means the largest network of tech newsletters in the world, with over 8M subscribers covering startups, software engineering, AI, cybersecurity, product, and more. What makes it work is who writes it. Every issue comes from people building in tech, not reporters covering it. Our writers keep their day jobs: two engineers at Coinbase write[TLDR Crypto](https://tldr.tech/crypto), engineers at DeepMind and Meta write[TLDR Dev](https://tldr.tech/dev), researchers at Anthropic and Adobe write[TLDR AI](https://tldr.tech/ai), and robotics and datacenter strategy leads at OpenAI and Meta write[TLDR Hardware](https://tldr.tech/hardware).

If it matters in tech, it's in TLDR. That's what makes TLDR the best place to find what you need to learn.

💪Team: Our 31-person full-time team includes alumni of TikTok, Reddit, Amazon, Business Insider, Asana, Morning Brew, and Pinterest. We've stayed intentionally small, which means every person here owns a function rather than a slice of one.

📈Traction: We're bootstrapped, profitable, and on track for $35M in revenue this year - after $9M in 2024 and $20M in 2025. The advertisers who fund it want tech's decision-makers: AWS, Google Cloud, Anthropic, Slack, Notion, and GitHub.

## About the Role

TLDR's Applied AI program runs on one thesis: every process at the company should get better automatically as model capabilities improve. An LLM sits in the loop on every workflow, and the work of the people around it shifts from clicking and typing toward writing specs and evals and deciding what good looks like. In this role, you will:

- Own the build out of new agents, skills, and platform capability for teams across TLDR.
- Build and deploy agents end to end, from design through implementation, evals, and rollout to internal users.
- Write the evals and specs that define what good looks like, so workflow quality is measurable rather than anecdotal.
- Partner with our Applied AI PM on what to build, and make the smaller product calls independently.
- Work directly with stakeholders in sales, revenue ops, editorial, and people ops to find where an LLM belongs in their process.

What Success Looks Like

- Every workflow at the company improves as model capabilities improve.
- Teams write specs and evals and define what good looks like, rather than executing manually, and their processes improve as models improve without anyone rebuilding them.
- Work becomes increasingly push vs pull, by default work is done by LLMs and humans are brought in as needed.

## About You

- 5+ years experience including 2+ years building products and systems with LLMs, with at least one agent you took to production and still own.
- You code fluently with AI tools like Claude Code or Codex.
- You write evals as part of building, not after. You can say how you defined good, what you measured, and what you changed as a result.

You’ll Thrive Here If…

- You ship end to end and don't wait for someone to spec the small stuff.
- You have product judgment: you can say what you chose not to build, and why.
- You're comfortable in a domain where settled practice doesn't exist yet.
- You can sit with non-engineering stakeholders and find where an LLM belongs in their process.
- The way you build has changed as models have gotten better, and you treat capability improvement as a design input.
- You want surface area across nearly every function of a profitable, bootstrapped company, with no legacy systems to fight, direct CEO access, and an unlimited token budget.

## Why You'll Love It

🤑Compensation:

- Base compensation: $250,000 - $300,000
- Annual company performance bonus: $25,000 - $60,000

🌎Location: We're 100% remote across the US and Canada. Work where you want - our bands are set to tier-1 city rates wherever you live. 🤝Team Events: Biannual team offsites. Most recently we’ve gone to New Orleans, San Diego and Park City! 🏝️Time to Recharge: Flexible PTO. Most of the team takes 2–3 weeks a year, plus holidays. 🏥Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits with a 100% paid option 📈401(k) Plan: Empower 401(k) 🍼Paid Parental Leave 💻Home Office Stipend: Whatever makes you productive - standing desk, second monitor, chair, walking pad. 🔰Learning & Development Stipend: For anything that makes you better at your work, and for AI tools especially. Don't ration your tokens.

📥 If you're ready to make a real dent at a bootstrapped, profitable company, apply. Tell us if you need any accommodation at any point in the process.

Press and Publications

- [Inc story on how TLDR was founded](https://www.inc.com/rob-verger/how-dan-ni-founded-tldr-the-definitive-silicon-valley-tech-newsletter/91231833?mvgt=TdQDqrchNT9O)
- [Pricing and demographic information in TLDR’s latest media kit](https://kit.tldr.tech)

## About TLDR

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TLDR produces a free daily email newsletter that summarizes the most interesting stories in tech, startups, and programming for over 1.6 million readers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (active for several years)
- **Founders**: Dan N. (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology, Information, and Media
- **Target customers**: B2B (advertisers/brands seeking a tech-savvy audience)
- **Mission/Purpose**: Keep up with tech in 5 minutes by delivering a byte-sized daily tech newsletter.

## Products & Services
- **[TLDR Newsletter]**: A free, daily email newsletter with links and summaries of the most interesting stories in startups, tech, and programming.
- **[TLDR Job Board]**: A job board platform for companies to post and promote roles, particularly within the tech ecosystem.
- **[TLDR Talent]**: A recruitment and hiring service that helps companies find candidates; also hosts the company's own careers page.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (bootstrapped company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5.0M–$25.0M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Company is bootstrapped; notable readers include employees from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other major tech firms.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Over 1.6 million newsletter subscribers.
    - LinkedIn reports 46 employees (+6.3% YoY, adding 4 people).
    - Monthly web traffic of ~3.1 million visits (up 439.6% month-over-month).
    - Recognized as Inc. Best in Business 2025 (Best Bootstrapped).
    - CEO Dan N. was named a finalist in the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Bay Area program.
    - Active team expansion with key hires in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and GTM Ops.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped and Profitable**: Operates without venture capital, allowing full control over product and culture.
- **Massive, Engaged Audience**: Over 1.6 million subscribers who are tech professionals, providing a direct line to a highly valuable demographic.
- **Inc. Best in Business (2025)**: A third-party validation of its business practices and impact.
- **Strong Brand Trust**: The daily newsletter has become a trusted, essential source for busy tech professionals.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Approach**: Actively integrating AI into its product and operations, as evidenced by the recent hire of an Applied AI Engineer.
- **Scaling Enterprise Sales**: Building out a dedicated sales team (VP of Sales, Account Executives) to grow its B2B advertising and talent solutions.
- **Audience & Subscriber Growth**: Dedicated Head of Growth to expand its newsletter subscriber base.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully Remote Culture**: The company operates fully remote with team members across multiple countries (US, UK, Canada, Philippines, etc.).
- **Strong Benefits Package**: Includes Health Insurance, 401(k), Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation.
- **High Employee Satisfaction**: Rated 4.4/5.0 on LinkedIn (from 14 reviews) with strong marks in Compensation (4.6) and Career Development (4.5).
- **Lean, High-Impact Team**: A small team (46 people) means individual contributors have significant ownership and impact.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech Stack**: Utilizes modern tools including Vercel, OpenAI, React, TypeScript, Python, and Google Cloud, with an increasing focus on applied AI.

## Sources
1. [tldr.tech](https://tldr.tech/)
2. [LinkedIn - TLDR](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tldrnewsletter)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tldr.tech](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tldr.tech)
4. [tldr.tech/talent](https://tldr.tech/talent/companies/14)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Senior Engineer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tldr.tech/3b21aaf8-dea5-4127-be71-602d30e5001e)

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