Senior Product Engineer, Data & AI for Robotics

Kindredventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI seeks a Senior Product Engineer to build software and data products for scientific work. You’ll own products from the first user conversation through production, spanning frontend, backend and data.

You’ll work with scientists and technical teams to ship useful software that preserves meaningful scientific data. The role combines full-stack development with scientific understanding, focusing on reliable data workflows, QA, and AI-assisted annotation.

Qualifications

• Shipping full-stack products from an ambiguous problem to launch.
• Strong frontend, backend and data-modeling fundamentals, including data processing and integrations.
• Scientific fluency gained through bench work or sustained software development with experimental scientists.
• Product judgment: understanding user needs, choosing a useful scope and making technical tradeoffs.
• Hands-on responsibility for testing, deployment, monitoring and production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Understand users and set priorities. Investigate scientific and operational workflows, identify important problems and turn ambiguous needs into useful product scope.
• Build across the stack. Design and implement interfaces, backend services, data models and integrations. Carry products from prototype into daily use.
• Develop reliable data workflows. Build processing, validation and delivery capabilities that handle complex inputs, changing requirements and operational failures.
• Make data easier to use. Develop tools for reviewing scientific information, assessing quality and investigating or correcting errors.
• Improve quality and automation. Work with engineering and machine-learning specialists on processing, QA and AI-assisted annotation.
• Own production performance. Test, deploy, monitor and debug your software. Improve reliability, usability and operating cost as usage grows.

Job description

Mecka AI seeks a Senior Product Engineer to build software and data products for scientific work. You’ll own products from the first user conversation through production, spanning frontend, backend and data.

You’ll work with scientists and technical teams to ship useful software that preserves meaningful scientific data. The role combines full-stack development with scientific understanding, focusing on reliable data workflows, QA, and AI-assisted annotation.