Staff Software Engineer, Product

Directs AI coding agents to build and scale production systems in a multimodal AI lab, setting technical direction, making high-stakes tradeoffs, and co-owning product decisions. Requires 8+ years experience, deep judgment in systems or product, and proven AI tool usage for real outcomes.

About the job

What You’ll Do

Direct AI coding agents to build production systems quickly, while maintaining discipline around system design, ownership, and real-world behavior.
Decide what to build and what not to build as implementation costs drop.
Set technical direction across engineering, including system boundaries, data models, ownership, and operational expectations.
Co-own product direction in partnership with design and research, defining both what we build and how we build it.
Make and stand behind hard tradeoffs between speed, reliability, complexity, and extensibility.
Shape architecture early, before decisions harden into constraints.
Own critical outcomes end-to-end, from problem framing to deployment and iteration.

Raise the Bar

Set the standard for technical depth, judgment, and production ownership.
Prevent avoidable complexity from entering the system as iteration speed increases.
Mentor engineers on how to use AI tools effectively without lowering engineering rigor.
Identify and eliminate recurring classes of design mistakes before they scale.

Multiply the Organization

Design systems and workflows that allow small teams to ship with outsized impact.
Attract exceptional engineers and help them grow into high-judgment technical leaders.
Increase team velocity without increasing operational and conceptual overhead.

Who You Are (Required)

8+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
Led multiple non-trivial projects, owning technical direction and execution end-to-end.
Made high-stakes technical decisions that materially affected a system or product.
Fluent with AI coding tools and have used them to ship real functionality in production or substantial side projects.
Possess either: Strong technical depth (system design, distributed systems, security, infrastructure) or strong product intuition (user empathy, prioritization, taste in UX). Ideally both.

What Sets You Apart

Personally responsible for at least one clearly measurable, real-world success (e.g., product with 100k+ users, system serving millions of requests/day, open-source project with 10k+ stars).