Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

Join the product engineering team at an early-stage industrial staffing and operations technology company. You will bring AI agents into production workflows and build the backend platform that supports worker sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement., * Design how AI agents and models are applied across staffing and operations workflows.

• Architect and lead core backend systems, including real-time matching and automated vetting pipelines.
• Own platform architecture and make decisions that support the company’s evolving product needs.
• Improve backend performance, reliability, and scale across APIs, data systems, and infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product needs into working systems.
• For agent-focused work, develop agent harnesses, orchestration patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and model strategy.
• Use customer and operational insights to shape system design and product decisions.

Product Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Technical Operations, Application Programming Interface (API), Performance Management, Cross-Functional, Leadership, Customer/Client Research, * At least 5 years of software engineering experience for Senior-level candidates, or 7 or more years for Staff-level candidates, with end-to-end product ownership.

• Experience at a fast-growing startup, shipping products and leading projects with high velocity in ambiguous environments.
• Strong hands-on skills in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, with experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience building and deploying agentic or applied AI products; agent platform experience with orchestration, evaluations, and model selection is valuable.
• Strong product judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering measurable business impact.
• Background in marketplaces, matching or recommendation systems, recruiting, operations technology, or products for non-technical users is useful.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and a record of sustained contributions in prior roles.

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.