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Desert Ant Labs is an on-device AI lab in Europe. We're building efficient frontier intelligence, bottom up. We make the fastest model for each task, built to run on the billions of phones, laptops, and browsers people already own. Every model is lightning fast and private, and has no per-call cost. Little brains in every product.

With our native SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript, you add a model to an app in a few lines of code. Data stays with your customer, and the feature works without a cloud provider. Every role here pushes the limits of what a phone or a laptop can do.

Tell us what you do and what you want to do next. We read every application, and we keep yours on file only when you tick the box to stay on file.

We're a small, flat team, and we build the models, the SDKs, and the apps that use them. Detail and Subwave, our own apps, run our models in production.

Start what needs starting without waiting to be asked, and finish what you start. Take on work outside your role when a project needs you.

We ship quickly, so we cut scope until only the part users notice is left. Anyone can comment on your work or redo your draft, and we say early when work isn't ready. We read that feedback as help.

We judge the work by what shipped and what changed because of it. Nobody counts hours.

• Salary and equity, based on level.
• In our Amsterdam office, or remote anywhere between Eastern Time in North America (UTC-5) and Central European Time (UTC+1), so everyone shares part of the working day.

We hire directly. We don't reply to emails from recruiters or agencies, and we don't want their outreach about this role or any other.

A few lines for each question is enough. A link to something you made says more than a long answer.