Product Engineer, Labs

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI is seeking a Product Engineer, Labs to build 0-to-1 products across robotics, manufacturing, science, and reinforcement learning environments. You will work directly with users and product colleagues to understand problems, ship initial solutions, and improve them through real-world use.

This generalist role spans frontend, backend and data, enabling you to learn new domains, make pragmatic product decisions, and own implementation through production, while exploring how users work and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Ability to build clear, interactive web applications
• Design APIs and data models across systems
• Turn ambiguous requests into useful first releases
• Adapt to unfamiliar workflows and own outcomes

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end workflows from prototype to deployment
• Work directly with users to turn feedback into requirements
• Connect tools and data across unfamiliar systems
• Develop reusable components balancing reuse and current needs
• Own reliability through testing, deployment, monitoring and optimization
• Iterate with product judgment and communicate tradeoffs

Skills

Frontend development

Backend development

API design

Data modeling

Product judgment

Job description

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

As Product Engineer, Labs, you'll build 0-to-1 products for Mecka's Labs team, launching new verticals across robotics, manufacturing, science, reinforcement learning environments and other technical domains. Work directly with users and product colleagues to understand a problem, ship an initial solution and improve it through use.

This is a generalist engineering role across frontend, backend and data. You'll learn unfamiliar domains, make practical product decisions and own implementation through production, investigating how users work and what they need.

What you will be doing:

• Build end-to-end workflows: Develop user interfaces, services, APIs and data models. Take a product from an early prototype through deployment and ongoing use.

• Work directly with users: Observe how people work, identify bottlenecks and turn feedback into clear requirements. Make complex tasks easier without losing information users depend on.

• Connect tools and data: Build integrations, imports and exports across unfamiliar systems. Handle inconsistent inputs, validation errors and access boundaries clearly.

• Develop reusable components: Identify common needs across products and build components that are straightforward to maintain. Balance reuse against the needs of the current problem.

• Own reliability: Test, deploy, monitor and support what you ship. Investigate failures across the stack and improve performance and usability based on production evidence.

• Iterate with product judgment: Scope useful releases, instrument important workflows and assess whether changes help users. Communicate technical tradeoffs and collaborate with domain specialists.

What you bring:

• Engineering experience: You bring 4+ years of engineering experience and have shipped and maintained working products across the frontend, backend and database, with responsibility beyond an initial demonstration.

• Interface development: You can build clear, interactive web applications and handle loading states, errors and complex user input thoughtfully.

• Backend and data: You can design APIs and data models, integrate external systems and debug processing or storage problems.

• Product judgment: You can turn an ambiguous request into a useful first release, work closely with users and revise your approach as evidence changes.

• Adaptability and ownership: You learn unfamiliar workflows quickly, investigate problems independently and communicate clearly with technical and domain experts.

Even better if you have:

• Data-intensive applications, media or document processing, or workflows involving human review.

• Practical experience building AI-enabled products and evaluating their behavior in use.

• Early-stage product development, including making and revisiting scope decisions with a small team.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Mecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. Mecka regularly reviews its recruitment practices to mitigate bias and to ensure alignment with applicable laws and evolving best practices.

Inclusive Hiring at Mecka

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.