Hybrid Product Engineer: AI Prototyping & Ownership

Hadfield Green; Tipperary; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hadfield Green is seeking a Product Engineer in Ireland to join a hybrid role with 1 day per week onsite in the Midlands. You will sit at the intersection of Product, Engineering and AI-enabled software development and decide what gets built while actively building a meaningful portion of it.

You’ll own product decisions across an established software platform, write precise specifications and prototype, test and ship using AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across Product Management, Product Ownership, Engineering or a similarly accountable product role.
• Strong product judgement and experience deciding what should – and shouldn’t – get built.
• Enough technical ability to build working prototypes and contribute to production software.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar.
• The technical judgement to recognise when AI-generated output looks right but isn’t.
• Comfortable navigating a modern web/mobile codebase and working with data, including SQL or equivalent.
• A builder mentality – someone who would rather prototype, test and learn than spend weeks discussing an idea.

Responsibilities

• Own product decisions – what gets built, improved, fixed or switched off.
• Translate customer and business problems into clear specifications, acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Prototype, build and ship using AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow.
• Critically review AI-generated code and take responsibility for what reaches production.
• Use product and usage data to understand what’s working and inform what happens next.
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture and DevOps on larger or more specialised development.
• Stay close to customers and turn real-world problems into simple, valuable product improvements.

Skills

Product management

Product ownership

Engineering

AI coding agents

SQL

Builder mentality

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Hadfield Green is seeking a Product Engineer in Ireland to join a hybrid role with 1 day per week onsite in the Midlands. You will sit at the intersection of Product, Engineering and AI-enabled software development and decide what gets built while actively building a meaningful portion of it.

You’ll own product decisions across an established software platform, write precise specifications and prototype, test and ship using AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow.