Product Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Product Engineer — AI Infrastructure Location: San Francisco, CA — in person Experience: 1–5 years Compensation: Approximately $180K–$220K base, plus generous equity and potential performance bonus About the Company My client is a 26-person AI infrastructure startup building an open-core platform that helps major enterprises deploy and manage AI securely at scale. The company has reached $18M in ARR, grown revenue 6× in eight months, and serves more than 400 paying customers, including NVIDIA, NASA, and Etsy. Its enterprise customers pay for self-hosted functionality such as SSO, SCIM, authentication, and organization-wide AI infrastructure. This is an opportunity to join an exceptionally talented team at a major inflection point and own products used by some of the largest companies in the world. The Role My client is hiring Product Engineers across junior and senior levels. You will help identify, validate, and build the company’s next zero-to-one products across areas such as AI agents, MCP, skills, intelligent model routing, and enterprise AI infrastructure. This is not a role where engineers simply receive detailed tickets. You will work directly with customers, understand their underlying problems, decide what should be built, and own solutions from initial prototype through production. What You’ll Do Build and own new AI infrastructure products from zero to oneWork directly with major enterprise customers as they deploy AITranslate customer problems into scalable product capabilitiesDevelop products across the backend, APIs, infrastructure, and user experienceShip quickly, measure adoption, and iterate based on real user behaviorOwn major technical and product decisions with significant autonomyContribute to products involving agents, MCP, model routing, and developer toolingHelp shape the engineering culture and product direction of a rapidly growing company What They’re Looking For Approximately 1–5 years of software-engineering experienceA bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field from a U.S. universityExperience in a high-bar engineering environment, ideally AWS or a comparable technology companyStrong software-engineering fundamentalsEvidence of building products beyond assigned responsibilitiesConfidence working directly with customersClear, concise, and energetic communicationComfort operating with ambiguity and limited structureWillingness to work in person in San Francisco Strong Differentiators The strongest candidates have demonstrated unusual ownership through one or more of the following: Founder or founding-engineer experienceBuilding an independent product with real usersLeading a technical club or university organizationWinning multiple hackathonsMeaningful open-source contributionsLaunching a zero-to-one product inside a larger organizationPersonally acquiring users or validating a product ideaEvidence of exceptional achievement inside or outside engineering Culture The company values: OwnershipCustomer careAutonomyGritGrowth mindsetHigh energyClear and simple communication The company can support OPT, STEM OPT, and existing H-1B transfers. It cannot currently sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates located outside the United States.