Staff Software Engineer
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to join OpenMined, a nonprofit on a mission to build the public network for the world's non-public data — unlocking 1,000,000x more information across every scientific field and industry, and ensuring it stays open, equitable, and accessible to all.
You'll lead our Network Sourced AI squad — the team building two core products that make this vision real. Today, the entire AI stack is built on copying content into model weights and hoping the lawsuits don't land. We think there's a better architecture: data stays at the source, AI queries it live, and every answer carries attribution back to who made it possible. Syft Space is the local node any data owner(a newsroom, a publisher, a research lab, an individual) runs to publish their content under their own terms and pricing. Syft Hub is the network layer that lets AI labs, agents, and app developers find those nodes and query across them in real time.
This is a team lead + hands-on technical leadership role. You write code. You make architecture decisions. You set engineering standards by example. You're the most experienced engineer on the squad, the person others look to for production-quality judgment, and the voice that connects this team's decisions with the organization's broader platform strategy.
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