Incubation Engineers are experienced Software Engineers with deep knowledge in a specific domain that can research, experiment, iterate and ship a new solution to the market. The goal of an Incubation Engineer is to reach a viable level of maturity in their respective area within the GitLab project. GitLab in recent months has released GitLab Duo, our suite of AI capabilities to power customer workflows and we’re looking for an engineer to specifically focus on building new machine learning, large language models and AI-based features for our millions of users.
What you’ll do
Develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
Work closely with company leadership to guide GitLab’s entry into new markets
Interact with community members and customers to help drive initial user adoption
Develop strategies for scaling beyond the Incubation phase
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
Regularly demonstrate progress to stakeholders
What you’ll bring




You bring strong technical skills and an ability to work across backend, frontend, and infrastructure management code. Experience with Ruby on Rails is mandatory given GitLab’s current tech stack (Python, Go and/or Vue are nice to have)
Have hands-on experience working with large language models and their toolkits
Have experience in building and shipping new products to market
You demonstrate a desire to work in a “startup within a startup” with a broad scope of ownership and a high degree of autonomy
You are comfortable with ambiguity and changing direction based on stakeholder feedback and market conditions
You understand the competitive landscape of AI and the market opportunities in this area
You have a background in building scalable services
About the team
You’ll be joining a team of 5 Incubation Engineers who are responsible for building and shipping new GitLab products and we take advantage of this through o

📌 Remote AI Incubation Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 GitLab
📍 Madrid