(Jr.) Front-End Engineer

Somerville, MA

Software

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Our pay ranges are established per Pave Compensation Software. We’re also proud to offer equity in our fast-growing startup and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages among startups at our stage. Laminar pays 100% of the individual health insurance premium for HMO medical, vision, and dental, offers flexible PTO, a $90/month transportation benefit, a $65/month health and wellness benefit, FSA, 12 company-paid holidays, an employer-matching 401(k) (unheard of at this stage!), and Greentown Labs membership, among other valuable resources. (*subject to change)

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

As our company scales, we're seeking a Front-End Engineer to join our software team. In this role, you will work across the entire stack to develop new visualization features, enhance user experience, and support customer integrations for Laminar Insights, our client-facing application for custom data analytics. This is an excellent opportunity to collaborate with a small, close-knit team and make a significant impact on our users. Since we are a small team, we’re constantly picking up new challenges and really value engineers who can spot a problem and just get it done. If you are someone who gets excited about uncovering new ways to drive product adoption on the web, improving user experience, and personalizing, we would love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

Improve and build new features for Laminar Insights: Ideally (and we hope this comes naturally to you), this would involve working backwards from the desired user experience to the set of technologies that enable it. You will be gathering requirements, planning, ideating, and finally implementing across the frontend, backend, and anything in between. An exciting new avenue we are exploring is adding AI/LLM-based features to Laminar Insights. You will prototype, design, and build new interaction paradigms that this new technology enables.
Influence and maintain Laminar’s backend: Work with other engineers to contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of Laminar’s backend API server and database that powers the frontend, ensuring it meets high-security standards and is scalable.
Build automation tools & CI/CD pipelines: You believe in the power of automation and CI/CD pipelines and work across the software team to introduce and scale software best practices with automated pipelines. This includes, but is not limited to, building testing suites and deployment scripts to provision infrastructure (experience with tools like Terraform GitHub Actions is a plus, but curiosity and willingness to learn are even better).

About You

Proven ability to consistently deliver high volumes of robust, production-quality software efficiently within complex systems, or demonstrated potential to operate at this level.
Experience building complex web apps; proficiency with Next.js is highly desirable.
Proficiency in Typescript, TailwindCSS, and visualization libraries (like Recharts) is a bonus.
You’re opinionated on the roadmap and future of the product, and are willing to make decisions on priorities and what to work on.
1-2 years of experience
You critically evaluate features, are less loyal to features you have shipped in the past, and aren’t afraid to pivot when something isn’t working.
Production experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP is helpful.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Direct impact on product and culture.
Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
Opportunities for growth and professional development.
Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.

Learn How We Think

Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech

Why Laminar?

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you are unsure you are a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you.

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