Desktop App Engineer
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Desktop App Engineer

LM Studio

Job Location : New York,NY, USA

Posted on : 2025-08-05T01:14:36Z

Job Description :
About the Role

We are hiring a Software Engineer in New York who specializes in Electron, React, TypeScript, and JavaScript runtime,

In this role you will work on LM Studio (desktop application), lmstudio-js (SDK), and lms (CLI).

Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, maintain new features in LM Studio

  • Design, implement, maintain new public and internal APIs

  • Extend, maintain, test LM Studio Core SDKs

  • Implement, debug, test Node daemon-level code

  • Implement, debug, test Node / Electron IPC code

  • Implement, debug, test Node bindings (NAPI)

  • Profile, debug, improve application rendering performance

  • Profile, debug, improve process memory and CPU usage

  • Be an excellent communicator, contributor, and collaborator

Minimum Qualifications
  • Into local LLMs and have tinkered with them in LM Studio

  • 3+ years experience with Node and TypeScript

  • Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols

  • Strong understading of operating systems

  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications
  • You have deep understanding of JavaScript foundational knowledge such as event loops, micro tasks, prototype inheritance

  • You have tinkered, and have many ideas for tinkering, with local LLMs

  • You are curious about, and have investigated React really works under the hood

  • You can make apps run really fast, and find out exactly why they're not fast

  • You are a prolific contributor, and always been, anywhere you worked or studied

Pay and Benefits
  • Equity

  • Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

  • 401K

  • Company provided MacBook Pro M3 / or high performance Windows/Linux laptop

  • Access to awesome hardware of all kinds

  • Office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with stunning views and free gym access

Annual Salary Range:

$175,000 - $350,000

About Element Labs

Element Labs is an AI software company based out of New York, USA. We build LM Studio, a desktop application and developer platform for building on-device AI applications. Our mission is to make local AI accessible, useful, and ubiquitous. We are looking for teammates who want to take a huge swing at this mission with us.

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