Product Engineer

Imbue; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Daily lunch for onsite employees

$250 lifestyle stipend

Generous budget for self-improvement

Frequent team events and off-sites

Job summary

A leading AI systems company in San Francisco seeks a Sr. Product Engineer to shape product direction and build across the entire stack. The ideal candidate combines product intuition with technical skills, notably in React, Typescript, and Python. Responsibilities include conducting user interviews, implementing prototypes, and shipping code for various interfaces. Offering a competitive compensation package with significant flexibility, this role encourages diverse skillsets and self-improvement within a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Motivated by solving real problems for real customers.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and work independently.
• Experience or interest in being a founder of a software product company.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user interviews and ask insightful questions.
• Implement rough prototypes for potential product ideas.
• Collect, parse, and ideate on feedback generated from users.
• Ship backend and frontend code against various interfaces.
• Collaborate with the product design team to create new features.

Skills

Product intuition

React

Typescript

Python

Job description

Sr. Product Engineer

Summary

In this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape our product and help build 0-1 — not just the technologies we use, but the overall direction of our product as it evolves. You will be responsible for building across our entire stack, understanding customer needs, and contributing to our product roadmap.

This role is particularly good fit for anyone who has previously been or would like to be a founder of a software product company. We are looking primarily for good product intuition and judgment — someone who understands what actually matters and then makes that happen.

Example Projects

• Conduct user interviews and ask insightful questions while shadowing current or potential users
• Implement rough prototypes for potential product ideas or iterations
• Collect, parse, and ideate on feedback generated from both internal and external users
• Quickly assemble code abstractions to enable fast iteration, and exercise judgment to delete code that doesn’t contribute as strongly to product fit
• Ship backend and frontend code against various interfaces (web, CLI, IDE, etc.)
• Collaborate with our product design team to transform promising ideas into new product features

You Are

• A builder at heart
• Motivated by solving real problems for real customers
• Energized by understanding and talking to users
• Someone that loves to sweat the details
• Able to navigate ambiguity and work independently without explicit directions
• Either experienced or interested in being a founder of a software product company
• Experienced with React/Typescript and Python

Compensation And Benefits

• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
• Lunch provided daily to onsite employees
• $250 lifestyle stipend per month
• Generous budget for self‑improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc.
• Actively co‑create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture
• Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work.
• Frequent team events, dinners, off‑sites, and hanging out.
• Compensation packages are highly variable based on a variety of factors. If your salary requirements fall outside of the stated range, we still encourage you to apply. The range for this role is $170,000–$350,000 cash (plus equity).

How To Apply

All submissions are reviewed by a person, so we encourage you to include notes on why you’re interested in working with us. If you have any other work that you can showcase (open source code, side projects, etc.), certainly include it! We know that talent comes from many backgrounds, and we aim to build a team with diverse skillsets that spike strongly in different areas.

About Us

Imbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.

We aim to rekindle the dream of the personal computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Research