Product Engineer, AI

Roper Technologies, Inc.; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Roper Technologies seeks a Product Engineer to define and build AI products across its portfolio of market-leading vertical software businesses. This is a builder role combining technical depth with product judgment, colocated with customers to identify where AI adds value and capable of delivering it end-to-end.

You will move between portfolio companies in insurance, healthcare, energy, education, and other domains to craft shipped capabilities from concept to monetization, while shaping

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field: CS/engineering/math/physics.
• Deep technical grounding in AI/ML, including modern LLM-based and agentic systems.
• Prior experience shipping AI products at scale in production.
• Strong product sense and taste, with real opinions about what makes software good to use.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype a working solution quickly and independently.
• Ability to learn an unfamiliar business domain rapidly and form a clear view on what to build.
• Willingness to work directly with customers and portfolio company teams.
• Strong ownership mindset, resilience to failed experiments, and high internal drive.
• Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with portfolio leadership to shape AI product concepts, roadmaps, and theses.
• Learn new business domains quickly and identify where AI adds value.
• Develop defensible viewpoints on what to build and why now.
• Feasibility and willingness to pay evaluation against competitors.
• Engage with customers to ground decisions in real workflows.
• Build prototypes and run experiments to establish feasibility.
• Design evaluations to distinguish demos from ship-ready products.
• Move quickly from concept to functioning system with AI-assisted development.
• Kill ideas when evidence does not support them.
• Develop shared technology that scales across multiple businesses.
• Decide central vs local capabilities and drive adoption of shared platforms.
• Codify best practices into reusable frameworks and playbooks.
• Ship AI products that drive adoption, monetization, and customer impact.
• Define metrics for adoption, retention, expansion, and outcomes.
• Close the loop from production usage back to the roadmap.

Skills

AI/ML fundamentals

Product sense

Software architecture

Prototyping

Customer collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

LLM frameworks

Agent frameworks

Retrieval systems

Model deployment

Job description

Job Requisition: Product Engineer, AI

Company: Roper Technologies

Department: Engineering / AI & Machine Learning

Employment Type: Full-Time

Levels Hiring: Senior / Principal-Staff (leveling based on experience)

Job Summary

Roper Technologies is seeking a Product Engineer to define and build AI products across its portfolio of market‑leading vertical software businesses. This is a builder role combining technical depth with product judgment. You will sit close enough to customers to see where AI creates value, and be capable enough to build it yourself. Roper's advantage in AI comes from owning the proprietary data, domain context, and mission‑critical workflows of the industries our businesses serve. This role converts that advantage into shipped product: shaping product concepts and roadmaps with portfolio company leadership, prototyping to establish feasibility, and building central technology that creates leverage across many businesses at once. You will move between businesses in insurance, healthcare, energy, education, and other verticals, each with deep proprietary data driving mission‑critical processes for customers. We are looking for people who have shipped real AI products rather than demos, and who have strong opinions about what good looks like. There is no single path into this role. Strong candidates come from engineering, product, and research backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Thesis Development

• Partner with portfolio company leadership to shape AI product concepts, roadmaps, and product theses
• Learn new business domains quickly and identify where AI meaningfully adds customer value
• Develop a defensible point of view on what to build, what not to build, and why now
• Pressure-test opportunities against feasibility, differentiation, and willingness to pay
• Engage directly with customers to ground product decisions in real workflows

Prototyping & Experimentation

• Build working prototypes and run experiments to establish feasibility
• Design evaluations that separate a compelling demo from a shippable product
• Move fast from concept to functioning system, using AI‑assisted development to compress the build cycle
• Kill ideas when the evidence does not support them

Central Technology & Portfolio Leverage

• Develop shared technology and products that create leverage across many Roper businesses
• Judge when a capability should be built centrally versus locally, and design accordingly
• Drive adoption of shared platforms and patterns across portfolio company engineering teams
• Codify what works into reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and playbooks

Value Creation & Monetization

• Ship AI products that customers adopt, that can be priced, and that contribute to organic growth
• Define and track the metrics that demonstrate value: adoption, retention, expansion, and customer impact
• Close the loop from production usage back into the product roadmap

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field: computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics
• Deep technical grounding in AI and machine learning, including modern LLM‑based and agentic systems
• Prior experience shipping AI products at scale in production
• Strong product sense and taste, with real opinions about what makes software good to use
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns
• Demonstrated ability to prototype a working solution quickly and independently
• Ability to learn an unfamiliar business domain rapidly and form a clear view on what to build
• Willingness to work directly with customers and portfolio company teams
• Strong ownership mindset, resilience to failed experiments, and high internal drive
• Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment

Preferred

• Vertical SaaS or enterprise software experience in regulated or operationally complex industries
• Fluency with agent frameworks, orchestration patterns, retrieval systems, and evaluation methodology
• Full‑stack capability, from model behavior through to the customer‑facing interface
• Experience working across multiple business units or as part of a central strike team

Leveling & Growth

Level

Scope

Senior Product Engineer

Owns a product area end to end within one or two portfolio companies, from concept through shipped, monetized capability.

Principal / Staff Product Engineer

Sets product direction across multiple businesses, builds shared central technology, and drives adoption across the portfolio.

Level and compensation will be determined based on experience and demonstrated expertise.

What We Value

• Great product judgment with the ability to build
• Strong desire for empirical evidence (e.g., telemetry and evaluations) to test product hypotheses
• Curiosity about unfamiliar domains and the discipline to get to depth quickly

Why Join Roper

• Roper operates a portfolio of market‑leading vertical technology companies. These are durable businesses with very sticky products and strong product‑market fit.
• Roper's businesses already have customers, proprietary data, and workflows built over decades, making it fertile ground for AI delivery.
• You will get to depth on a vertical while also operating across a breadth of domains such as insurance, healthcare, energy, and education.
• The AI team is small and central, with little overhead and the ability to make quick decisions.
• You will drive material impact for each portfolio company while also meaningfully contributing to Roper's organic growth.

Roper Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

Roper Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

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