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Software Engineer (Early Career)

Lightfield

Company websitelightfield.app (Lightfield, opens in new tab)

Base salary $160K  to $180K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA +1 more

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA +1 more
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
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  • San Francisco, CA
  • Cambridge, MA

About this job

About Lightfield

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.

About the role

We’re looking for a creative, and versatile engineer who is eager to tackle the challenge of building scaled, performant features and systems that deliver exceptionally innovative AI product experiences.

At Lightfield, engineers take ownership of projects from inception to impact, collaborating across functions and pushing the envelope on what’s possible in applied AI systems development. You’ll work alongside a talented team to deliver industry-leading solutions and contribute to Lightfield product and technical vision

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with product leaders to identify customer problems, scope requirements, and implement solutions.

  • Build and maintain full-stack product features and systems, end-to-end, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.

  • Develop observability and metrics to enable smooth operation, proactive issue detection, and continuous improvement.

  • Mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and help shape engineering culture and practices.

  • Contribute to building a world-class engineering team through recruiting, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing.

Who you are

  • You’re excited about Large Language Models (LLMs) and the opportunity to build systems that support and leverage them.

  • You have the ability to ramp quickly on tech stack that features TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.

  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering, with a degree in Computer Science or a related field.

  • Thrives in ambiguity, able to independently drive projects and deliver results in a fast-moving environment.

  • Clear communicator, capable of articulating technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Passionate about building products customers love, ensuring our CRM is intuitive, intelligent, and indispensable.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary

  • Meaningful early equity

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

  • 3 weeks of PTO

  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break

  • 3 months of paid family leave

  • Wednesdays work from home

  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats

  • 401k plan

  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

Source: Lightfield on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($160,000) is above 34% of the 4,198 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 100 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,500; the middle half runs from $149,200 to $204,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Lightfield roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Lightfield roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Engineer (Early Career) (this listing)$160K - $180K
Growth Operations Lead$170K - $220K
Deployment Strategist$170K - $250K
Founding Sales/GTM Recruiter$170K - $210K
Founding Recruiter, Technical$170K - $210K
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Staff+)$180K - $300K
Community and Events Lead$180K - $220K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Lightfield roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

  1. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
  2. First observed on the employer's board
Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-07-16
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: HQ: San Francisco • Cambridge, MA

USD 160,000 – 180,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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