Senior Product Engineer

Elm AI; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

US Eastern overlap 4+ hrs

Learning budget

AI tooling allowances

Job summary

Elm AI seeks a senior individual-contributor to own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and agent-based workflows for an AI product already in production with major global brands. The role blends architectural decision-making with product judgment, delivering durable, well-crafted software.

You design and ship features across the full stack, make scalable architectural choices, and improve velocity, code quality, and tooling.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build and ship features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and agent-based workflows.
• Strong technical depth paired with clear product judgment and care for durability.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship features spanning the full stack, including the user-experience layer.
• Make architectural decisions and build scalable systems.
• Improve engineering velocity, code quality, feedback loops, and internal tooling.
• Develop practical patterns for AI-assisted development and surface useful work even without detailed specs.

Skills

Feature ownership

Full-stack

AI tooling

Open-source

Job description

Role overview

A senior individual-contributor role owning features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and agent-based workflows for an AI product already in production with major global brands. The position blends architectural decision-making with product judgment, with a strong emphasis on shipping clear, durable, well-crafted software.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship features spanning the full stack, including the user-experience layer.
• Make clear architectural decisions and build systems that scale with growth.
• Improve engineering velocity, code quality, feedback loops, and internal developer tooling.
• Develop practical patterns for AI-assisted development and surface useful work without waiting for detailed specifications.

Requirements

• Strong technical depth paired with solid product judgment and care for clarity and durability.
• Fluency in modern software engineering and thoughtful, pragmatic use of AI tools during development.
• Tangible evidence of building: side projects, prototypes, open-source contributions, or writing you can point to.
• Comfort with ambiguity, ownership of outcomes, and a balance between speed and craft.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote role with international scope.
• At least four hours of daily overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.
• Compensation benchmarked to role, experience, and regional market.
• Learning and development budget, generous AI tooling and token allowances, and a personal spend card for research and experimentation.
• Several years of operating runway and an environment designed to support sustainable work.