Product Engineer - AI Infrastructure

AustinWorks; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

AustinWorks is hiring Product Engineers in San Francisco to identify, validate, and build zero-to-one AI infrastructure products. You will work directly with enterprise customers, understand their problems, and own solutions from prototype to production.

The role spans backend, APIs, infrastructure, and UX, with autonomy to shape technical and product directions. A CS degree from a US university and 1–5 years of experience are preferred, with on-site SF work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or closely related field from a US university.
• 1–5 years of software-engineering experience in a high-bar environment.
• Experience with AWS or comparable technology company preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and own AI infra products from zero to one.
• Work directly with enterprise customers deploying AI.
• Translate customer problems into scalable product capabilities.
• Develop backend, APIs, infrastructure and user experience features.
• Ship quickly, measure adoption, and iterate based on real user behavior.
• Own major technical and product decisions with significant autonomy.
• Contribute to products involving agents, MCP, model routing, and developer tooling.
• Help shape engineering culture and product direction at a rapidly growing company.

Skills

Software engineering

Customer interaction

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field (US university)

Tools

AWS

Job description

Compensation:

Approximately $180K–$220K base, plus generous equity and potential

performance bonus

About the Company

My client is a 26-person AI infrastructure startup building an open-core platform that helps major enterprises deploy and manage AI securely at scale.

The company has reached $18M in ARR, grown revenue 6× in eight months, and serves more than 400 paying customers, including NVIDIA, NASA, and Etsy. Its enterprise customers pay for self-hosted functionality such as SSO, SCIM, authentication, and organization-wide AI infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to join an exceptionally talented team at a major inflection point and own products used by some of the largest companies in the world.

The Role

My client is hiring Product Engineers across junior and senior levels. You will help identify, validate, and build the company’s next zero-to-one products across areas such as AI agents, MCP, skills, intelligent model routing, and enterprise AI infrastructure.

This is not a role where engineers simply receive detailed tickets. You will work directly with customers, understand their underlying problems, decide what should be built, and own solutions from initial prototype through production.

What You’ll Do

• Build and own new AI infrastructure products from zero to one
• Work directly with major enterprise customers as they deploy AI
• Translate customer problems into scalable product capabilities
• Develop products across the backend, APIs, infrastructure, and user experience
• Ship quickly, measure adoption, and iterate based on real user behaviorOwn major technical and product decisions with significant autonomy
• Contribute to products involving agents, MCP, model routing, and developer tooling
• Help shape the engineering culture and product direction of a rapidly growing company

What They’re Looking For

• Approximately 1–5 years of software-engineering experience
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field from a U.S. university
• Experience in a high-bar engineering environment, ideally AWS or a comparable technology company
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals
• Evidence of building products beyond assigned responsibilities
• Confidence working directly with customers
• Clear, concise, and energetic communication
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited structure
• Willingness to work in person in San Francisco

Strong Differentiators

The strongest candidates have demonstrated unusual ownership through one or more of the following:

• Founder or founding-engineer experience
• Building an independent product with real users
• Leading a technical club or university organization
• Winning multiple hackathons
• Meaningful open-source contributions
• Launching a zero-to-one product inside a larger organization
• Personally acquiring users or validating a product idea
• Evidence of exceptional achievement inside or outside engineering

Culture

The company values:

• Ownership
• Customer care
• Autonomy
• Grit
• Growth mindset
• High energy
• Clear and simple communication

The company can support OPT, STEM OPT, and existing H-1B transfers. It cannot currently sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates located outside the United States.