Lead Full-Stack Product Engineer for AI Interfaces

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Tuition assistance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Product Engineer to design and build the human-facing layer for next-generation AI systems at PNNL. You will develop intuitive, trustworthy, and effective interfaces that help people work with complex data, dynamic content, and user-facing AI agents.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial independence in ambiguous, high-impact areas.

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS/AA/HS paths with corresponding years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of production web applications and reusable interface architectures using React, TypeScript and/or JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Define product direction and technical approaches for adaptive, data-intensive experiences that support collaboration between people and AI agents.
• Translate ambiguous mission needs, competing priorities, and unclear constraints into credible technical plans, including an MVP, sequencing, dependencies, risks, and explicit tradeoffs.
• Work across the stack to ensure interfaces are supported by reliable APIs, data services, authentication, observability, deployment practices, and maintainable technical foundations.
• Design AI-assisted and human-in-the-loop workflows with appropriate transparency, user control, feedback, approval, and recovery when an AI agent is uncertain or wrong.
• Contribute production-quality code while setting a high bar for usability, accessibility, performance, security, observability, maintainability, and visual craft.
• Lead and mentor engineers across experience levels through code and design review, pairing, technical direction, and career guidance; raise engineering standards across the team.
• Lead technical content for proposals, scope and shape new efforts, identify sponsor opportunities, and represent the group’s capabilities to sponsors, collaborators, and the broader community.
• Guide products from early concept through operational use and continuously improve how the team discovers, designs, builds, evaluates, and learns from what it delivers.

Education

PhD and 3 years of Software Engineering experience

MS/MA and 5 years of Software Engineering experience

BS/BA and 7 years of Software Engineering experience

AA and 16 years of Software Engineering experience

HS/GED and 18 years of Software Engineering experience

Job description

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Product Engineer to design and build the human-facing layer for next-generation AI systems at PNNL. You will develop intuitive, trustworthy, and effective interfaces that help people work with complex data, dynamic content, and user-facing AI agents.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial independence in ambiguous, high-impact areas.