Lead AI Engineer for Product Lab - Build & Validate Fast

Schibsted Media AS; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Schibsted's Product Lab is building AI-enabled media products and testing ideas with real users. As Lead Engineer you’ll be the senior engineer in the core team, setting technical direction and writing a large portion of the code yourself.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and editorial colleagues, coach other engineers, and help shape how we scale bets. The role can grow into broader technical leadership as the Lab expands.

Qualifications

• You're a product-minded engineer and builder at the earliest stage of a product.
• You're pragmatic about technology, knowing when to prototype vs. production code.
• You have hands-on experience with AI models and prototype-to-production work.

Responsibilities

• Assess new product ideas for technical feasibility, cost and risk with clear go/stop/scale recommendations.
• Build and ship early prototypes and experiments using code, AI tools and platforms.
• Develop AI-centric product experiences with language models, agents and retrieval.
• Make architecture choices aligned with each idea's maturity and roadmap.
• Collaborate with product, design and editorial teams and connect Lab ideas with broader tech teams.
• Coach engineers joining the Lab, fostering skills and growth.

Skills

Significant experience building AI/dig

AI models

Full stack development

AI tooling

Product deployment

Decision making

Technical leadership

Ownership

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

Schibsted's Product Lab is building AI-enabled media products and testing ideas with real users. As Lead Engineer you’ll be the senior engineer in the core team, setting technical direction and writing a large portion of the code yourself.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and editorial colleagues, coach other engineers, and help shape how we scale bets. The role can grow into broader technical leadership as the Lab expands.