Product Engineer - Parse
Build and own developer-facing document-parsing features that transform complex files into reliable, LLM-ready markdown and structured JSON. The role requires at least three years of shipping products or APIs used by developers, strong product judgment, and comfort solving ambiguous parsing problems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and ship developer-facing document-parsing features from idea through production.
- Own the reliability and quality of parsed output across PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, scanned files, and mixed-format documents.
- Solve layout detection, table structure, reading order, and OCR-routing challenges through clean, developer-friendly APIs.
- Collaborate with the engineering team on roadmap priorities and product tradeoffs.
- Use product dogfooding, GitHub issues, and developer feedback to guide development.
Requirements
- 3+ years building and shipping developer-facing products.
- Experience delivering products, features, or APIs used by real customers or developers.
- Strong focus on developer experience, including latency, output schemas, documentation, and usability.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems and turn them into shipped features.
- Comfortable moving quickly, measuring results, and iterating.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $235,000–$260,000 per year for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.
- Competitive equity.
- 15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available upon request.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- $100/month wellness stipend.
- Up to $1,000/year for learning and development.
- Paid team offsites.
- Three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
- U.S.-based employees: medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; supplemental insurance options; telehealth; 401(k); FSAs; commuter benefits; and pet insurance.
- San Francisco employees: office snacks, drinks, team lunches, and a loaner electric bike.
- Paid work trial, conducted remotely and paid at a contractor rate.
Skills
Document Parsing, Pdf, Ocr, API Design, JSON, Markdown, Table Extraction, Layout Detection, Reading Order, Developer Experience
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