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 doDevelop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant wayWork closely with company leadership to guide GitLab’s entry into new marketsInteract with community members and customers to help drive initial user adoptionDevelop strategies for scaling beyond the Incubation phaseCraft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability,



and best practices for a high-scale web environmentRegularly demonstrate progress to stakeholdersWhat you’ll bringYou 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 toolkitsHave experience in building and shipping new products to marketYou demonstrate a desire to work in a “startup within a startup” with a broad scope of ownership and a high degree of autonomyYou are comfortable with ambiguity and changing direction based on stakeholder feedback and market conditionsYou understand the competitive landscape of AI and the market opportunities in this areaYou have a background in building scalable servicesAbout the teamYou’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 our Single-enginee

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