Front-End Engineer

At Laminar (formerly H2Ok Innovations), we're leading the charge in cleantech innovation, reshaping process industrials and manufacturing to drive operational efficiency and sustainability for our world's most foundational industries. Powered by our Laminar AI Co-pilot models and state-of-the-art sensors, our solutions optimize facility performance across various processes, including process manufacturing, production, water management, energy reduction, and waste minimization. Based at Greentown Labs, North America's premier cleantech innovation community, we're a woman-founded startup backed by renowned investors like Greycroft, Construct Capital, 2048 Ventures, and Flybridge Capital. Our groundbreaking technologies have earned accolades and adoption from industry giants like Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company, ABinBev, and Mitsubishi Electric. We're committed to unlocking untapped data for our customers, empowering them to gain a competitive edge and create Industry 4.0.

Transforming our most foundational sectors of society is hard. Very hard. But we're building an empire. And empire building is not easy. It's deeply fulfilling, and you will learn and grow tremendously while driving sustainable impact globally with some of the largest players that make everything we eat, use, and wear. Our culture is to foster extraordinary growth within our teammates. We believe in autonomy, ownership, empowerment, demanding excellence, being mission-driven. We believe in creativity, authenticity, and extraordinary growth. We're looking for relentless, ambitious, creative, and exceptional people to join our team and build the factory of the future.

As our company scales, we're seeking a Front-End Engineer to join our software team. In this role, you will work across the entire stack to develop new visualization features, enhance user experience, and support customer integrations for Laminar Insights, our client-facing application for custom data analytics. This is an excellent opportunity to collaborate with a small, close-knit team and make a significant impact on our users. Since we are a small team, we're constantly picking up new challenges and really value engineers who can spot a problem and just get it done. If you are someone who gets excited about uncovering new ways to drive product adoption on the web, improving user experience, and personalizing, we would love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

• Improve and build new features for Laminar Insights: Ideally (and we hope this comes naturally to you), this would involve working backwards from the desired user experience to the set of technologies that enable it. You will be gathering requirements, planning, ideating, and finally implementing across the frontend, backend, and anything in between. An exciting new avenue we are exploring is adding AI/LLM-based features to Laminar Insights. You will prototype, design, and build new interaction paradigms that this new technology enables
• Influence and maintain Laminar's backend: Work with other engineers to contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of Laminar's backend API server and database that powers the frontend, ensuring it meets high-security standards and is scalable
• Build automation tools & CI/CD pipelines: You believe in the power of automation and CI/CD pipelines and work across the software team to introduce and scale software best practices with automated pipelines. This includes, but is not limited to, building testing suites and deployment scripts to provision infrastructure (experience with tools like Terraform GitHub Actions is a plus, but curiosity and willingness to learn are even better)

About You

• Proven ability to consistently deliver high volumes of robust, production-quality software efficiently within complex systems, or demonstrated potential to operate at this level
• Experience building complex web apps; proficiency with is highly desirable
• Proficiency in Typescript, TailwindCSS, and visualization libraries (like Recharts) is a bonus
• You're opinionated on the roadmap and future of the product, and are willing to make decisions on priorities and what to work on
• You critically evaluate features, are less loyal to features you have shipped in the past, and aren't afraid to pivot when something isn't working
• Production experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP is helpful
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment
• Opportunities for growth and professional development
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups

Learn How We Think

• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
• A customer story: Ben & Jerry's uses H2Ok's precision automation to cut time & water usage

Why Laminar (formerly H2Ok Innovations)?
Impact:
Work on cutting-edge AI and sensor tech that's already transforming how factories use water, energy, and chemicals. Join a tight-knit, ambitious team where your contributions can reshape the industry.

Growth:
Join a fast-growing startup where you'll have the opportunity to shape our content strategy. We value fostering extraordinary growth in our teammates.

Innovative Culture:
Work in a high-performance environment that values empowerment, creativity, ownership, autonomy, innovation, excellence, passion, and continuous growth.

Sustainability Focus:
Play a key role in promoting sustainability and Industry 4.0 advancements in manufacturing.

Build the intelligence layer powering the next generation of industrial efficiency – with a team that moves fast and delivers real impact.

Our Interview Process

• Phone screen with Laminar Head of Ops or Recruiter minutes)
• Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• On-site interview, including short tour of GTL, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview
• Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder's Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

A
recent study from LinkedIn
showed that most women apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the requirements, whereas men will hit the apply button if they hit 60%. Laminar (formerly H2Ok) is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. So, to the women and nonbinary folks out there feeling unsure if you're a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that's transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Our pay ranges are established per Pave Compensation Software. We're also proud to offer equity in our fast-growing startup and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages among startups at our stage. Laminar pays 100% of the individual health insurance premium for HMO medical, vision, and dental, offers flexible PTO, a $90/month transportation benefit, a $65/month health and wellness benefit, FSA, 12 company-paid holidays, an employer-matching 401(k) (unheard of at this stage), and Greentown Labs membership, among other valuable resources. (*subject to change)