Staff Product Engineer: AI-Native, High-Impact, Remote

Candid; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, VZ)

retirement contribution with match

paid life insurance and AD&D

pto and leave types

short-term and long-term disability

pre-tax transit

flexible spending accounts

supplemental insurance

summer hours

PSLF program eligible

Job summary

Candid, a nonprofit providing the most comprehensive data for social impact, is hiring a Staff Product Engineer to be the engineering foundation of an AI-native product team. You will ship end-to-end features and partner with a product manager and designer as equals to shape what we build and why.

This is a high-agency, high-visibility individual-contributor role focused on architecture, tooling, and delivering outcomes while guiding the wider engineering organization toward best practices.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience shipping end-to-end systems without scaffolding.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and production AI features.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering for the team from product surface to deployment and operations.
• Leverage AI-assisted development to multiply output and enable a one-engineer team.
• Build AI capabilities into the product with careful evaluation and guardrails.
• Partner with product and design as an equal in discovery and delivery.
• Share learnings through demos, patterns, and documentation to uplift other teams.
• Set quality standards in code, tests, and documentation.

Skills

AI-assisted development

Product sense

Architectural judgment

Independent contributor

Ambiguity handling

Visibility and advocacy

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Candid, a nonprofit providing the most comprehensive data for social impact, is hiring a Staff Product Engineer to be the engineering foundation of an AI-native product team. You will ship end-to-end features and partner with a product manager and designer as equals to shape what we build and why.

This is a high-agency, high-visibility individual-contributor role focused on architecture, tooling, and delivering outcomes while guiding the wider engineering organization toward best practices.