Careers

Nine people. Three seats open.

We are a small company making a product for other people's children, which asks for a particular kind of care. If that sounds like your kind of work, we would like to read your application.

How we work

Four days of making, one day of reading what we made. Everyone reads help tickets. Everyone reads books the system wrote, including the bad ones.

Where

Portland for the engineering and illustration work, remote in the United States for the rest. We are together in one room one week a quarter.

What we pay

Bands are published on every role below and we do not negotiate off them. Early equity, real health cover, and the sort of budget for children's books you would expect.

Open roles

Three jobs, described honestly.

Each one is a real job with a real first month. If you want to know what that month looks like, ask in your application and we will tell you.
  • StoryFull timePortland, OR or remote in the US

    Children's Editor

    $115,000 to $140,000

    Own the reading level. You will rewrite the prompts that write the books, read a great many drafts, and be the person who decides that a page is one sentence too long for a four year old.

    What we are looking for

    • Five or more years editing books for children under ten
    • An opinion about read-aloud rhythm you can defend
    • Comfortable working with model outputs as raw material rather than as answers
  • EngineeringFull timePortland, OR

    Illustration Engineer

    $165,000 to $195,000

    Character consistency is the hardest problem in this product and it is yours. Prompt structure, reference conditioning, evaluation, and the queue that paints ten pages without any of them drifting.

    What we are looking for

    • Shipped something with image models in production
    • Careful about evaluation, not just output
    • TypeScript, and enough Python to run experiments
  • SupportFull timeRemote in the US

    Family Support Lead

    $78,000 to $95,000

    Answer parents, usually the same evening. Own the tone of every refusal message. Bring the ten most common disappointments back to the team every week.

    What we are looking for

    • Support experience with consumer products, ideally with parents
    • Writes plainly and warmly under time pressure
    • Patience with a five year old's opinion of their own book

Apply

One form, read by a founder.

No cover letter needed. If none of these are right and you think we are missing something, use the last option in the list. Or write to careers@getquillow.com.

Portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn, or a book you edited.

A paragraph is plenty. We would rather read something specific than a cover letter.