At nao Labs, we are reimagining how data work gets done. Data work is different from traditional software development, and it deserves a specialised workflow. That’s why we’re creating nao—an AI-powered code editor tailored for data workers.

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to join nao Labs and help define the future of data work.

You should have deep experience across the generative AI stack—from model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation to advanced techniques like pre-prompting, RL for Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM), code generation, and task-specific adaptation.

You will:

• Lead AI development at nao Labs
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate models for data engineering, analytics and science related tasks
• Apply RL and other techniques for next-gen FIM and codegen systems
• Build internal tooling for efficient experimentation and deployment

You are:

• An expert in LLMs, transformers, RLHF, and code models
• Hands-on with training pipelines, distributed training, and evaluation metrics
• Entrepreneurial — ready to build, ship, and iterate fast

nao is a fork of VS Code, which means NodeJS and Typescript.

We also use React for webviews. Python/Django and NodeJS for our backend APIs. A lot of LLMs to power our product.

The biggest challenges are:

• Navigating VS Code codebase to build a lovable product for data people
• Understand SQL and Python codebase to provide syntaxic trees
• Build low-latency AI Tab features and agentic workflows