We’re looking for a Lead R&D Engineer who thrives on building and experimenting, someone who’d rather have a working prototype by Friday than a perfect plan by next quarter.
You will help lead a small, high-autonomy team focused on rapid experimentation at the intersection of AI and document workflows. Your job is to explore what’s possible through building proof-of-concept products, putting them in front of users, learn from the feedback, and iterate relentlessly. Some things will work and will ship, and some won’t. The point is to move fast enough to find the ones that matter and the ones that stick. The learning and the iteration is as important as the outcome.
To be clear, this isn’t a role for someone who wants to polish requirements docs or have the perfect architecture. It’s for someone who can leverage AI to build at pace, who has deep user empathy, who questions the status quo, and who thrives on the ambiguity of figuring out what the right thing to build even is.
Your work will span building new web and desktop applications, AI assistants, intelligent document processing, workflow automation, MCP servers, and AI services that integrate with Nitro’s API platform and existing products.