--- title: 'Software Engineer (LLM Products) at Blue Rose Research' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-llm-products-blue-rose-research-new-york-mtpzzw9d30jp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Software Engineer (LLM Products) at Blue Rose Research - **Company:** Blue Rose Research - **Location:** New York, NY - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-06-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blueroseresearch/jobs/5567644004 ## Job description About us: [Blue Rose Research](https://blueroseresearch.org/) builds data and AI tools that help Democrats win elections and advance progressive causes. We forecast races, test ads at scale, and use AI to track what's breaking in the news, then help campaigns respond fast with messages that actually move voters. Our work has guided how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by the country's top campaigns and progressive organizations. We're a small, mission-driven team of engineers, data scientists, and political strategists who build fast, experiment boldly, and care deeply about using technology for good. Software Engineer (LLM Products) The 2028 cycle starts the day after the midterms, and a wide-open Democratic presidential primary will begin almost immediately. With a crowded field and a fragmented media environment, campaigns will need to understand what's reaching and persuading voters faster than ever, and our tools will be at the center of that work from the first days of the primary through the general election. We're hiring a product-focused engineer to help build a new generation of AI-powered products: conversational interfaces, autonomous research agents, and tools that turn large amounts of data into information a person can act on in seconds. You’ll be talking to internal and external users to understand their goals. You’ll be working with our political research team to understand how they develop strategic guidance. You’ll turn that into product ideas, UX designs, and production code. This role is for a builder-designer who is just as comfortable in Figma as in a codebase. You'll be joining at the start of the cycle, with time to build systems that are ready before the pressure peaks rather than scrambling to catch up. You will: - Design and build end-to-end features for products where an agent and humans are working together. - Build products that present AI-generated output, uncertainty, and citations in a way people actually trust. - Work closely with political researchers, data scientists, and other engineers to turn ambiguous problems into simple, usable software. - Use AI tools and coding agents to move fast, and know when a slicker interface actually matters versus when it’s polish nobody needs. - Talk to users and internal stakeholders to understand what’s confusing, slow, or untrustworthy about existing tools, and fix it. - Dive head first into the world of political strategy to build systems that encode a deep understanding of the user’s goals and thought processes. Our ideal candidate likely: - Has 6+ years of experience as a product engineer, full-stack engineer, or designer-engineer hybrid, with a portfolio of shipped products you can point to. - Has strong product and UX instincts: you can critique a flow, sketch an alternative, and explain the tradeoff in plain language. - Is comfortable using coding agents to build quickly, but without compromising quality. - Has hands-on experience building products on top of LLMs: chat interfaces, agents, retrieval-augmented tools. - Understand how to use human annotations efficiently to encode human expertise into AI systems. - Has an eye for visual and interaction design; familiarity with tools like Figma is a plus. - Is energized by ambiguous problems. - Is motivated by Blue Rose Research’s mission and interested in learning the progressive political ecosystem. Prior political or civic-tech experience is welcome but not required. Join us! We are a remote-first company with an office in NYC and regular team meetups. We primarily work East Coast hours. The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $210,000 annually, commensurate with experience. We offer medical, dental, vision, 401k match, 20 weeks paid parental leave, fertility and family-building support through Maven Clinic, and unlimited PTO. You don't need to meet every qualification to apply. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States. ## About Blue Rose Research ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Blue Rose Research helps progressive campaigns and organizations make higher quality strategic decisions by democratizing access to accurate measurement through advanced polling, machine learning, and data infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (operates as a project of OpenLabs) - **Headquarters**: New York City, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Political polling, data analytics, and machine learning for progressive causes. - **Target customers**: B2B – Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, political action committees, and advocacy groups. - **Mission statement**: “Helps campaigns make higher quality strategic decisions by democratizing access to accurate measurement.” ## Products & Services - **Bayesian Polling Models**: High-dimensional Bayesian models that produce more accurate inferences from polling data than traditional methods. - **Messaging & Communications Testing**: Rapid turnaround A/B testing and guidance for communications professionals on what messages work on key issues. - **Data Infrastructure & Analytics Platforms**: Utility-scale data pipelines and analytics tools used by major progressive organizations to inform strategy and resource allocation. - **LLM & AI Tools (R&D)**: Cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools for prompt evaluation, forecasting, and automated analysis, including a dedicated Machine Learning Lead (LLM) role. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Revenue**: Not publicly available (private entity). - **Key Metric**: Team of 40+ employees per official site; 32 employees on LinkedIn (as of mid-2025, with +38.9% YoY growth). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Blue Rose Research is a project of OpenLabs. Its work is trusted by central decision-makers in the progressive ecosystem and has directed hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending. - **Growth Signals**: - 38.9% employee growth YoY and 8.7% monthly growth (LinkedIn). - Active hiring for Analytics Manager, Machine Learning Lead, Data Analyst, Product Manager, and multiple research roles. - Expanding into AI/LLM applications and forecasting. ## Competitive Advantages - **Technical moat**: Applies state-of-the-art Bayesian statistics and machine learning to solve fundamental problems in political polling (e.g., non-response bias, small sample sizes). - **Ecosystem access**: Deep relationships with key decision-makers in progressive campaigns – the team’s research has directly guided hundreds of millions of dollars in spending. - **Cross-functional talent**: Combines decorated engineers, PhD data scientists, and political insiders in a single team, enabling end-to-end product development from research to deployment. - **Mission alignment**: All work is exclusively for progressive causes, avoiding conflicts of interest and attracting top talent motivated by impact. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: - Building AI-powered tools to resist the Trump administration and support Democratic wins. - Scaling the “Insights Library” and survey platform with a new Product Manager hire. - Expanding forecasting and resource allocation tools for campaigns. - **Direction**: Continue to deepen technical sophistication in polling and expand into new domains (e.g., LLMs, automated analysis) while maintaining tight integration with the progressive movement’s strategic needs. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a “passionate and progressive” team of software engineers, machine learning engineers, and social scientists. The work is mission-driven, with a strong emphasis on technical rigor and democratic impact. - **Remote / Hybrid**: Many roles are listed as Remote (US-based). Some positions may also be based in New York City. The company appears to support flexible work arrangements. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on technically challenging problems (Bayesian models, LLMs) while directly influencing high-stakes political outcomes. Team includes veterans from Civis Analytics, Google, and academia. The official site emphasizes “building utility-scale data and analytics infrastructure for the progressive left.” - **Engineering culture**: Strong R&D focus; the team has a “storied history” of working with central players and is regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the political space. Employees are encouraged to “every day question our own core assumptions.” ## Sources 1. [Blue Rose Research – Official Site](https://blueroseresearch.org/) 2. [Blue Rose Research – About Page](https://blueroseresearch.org/about/?stream=top) 3. [Blue Rose Research – Jobs Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blueroseresearch) 4. [Blue Rose Research – Apply Page](https://blueroseresearch.org/jobs/) 5. 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