Overview
Product Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA at AustinWorks
Title: Product Engineer
Company: AustinWorks
Location: San Francisco, CA
Product Engineer
SF or NYC Onsite + some travel
$200k to $400k base
Our client is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents and AI-native developer tools. Their products help engineers collaborate with AI teammates across real-world software engineering workflows.
The team is small, highly technical, and talent-dense, with backgrounds across frontier AI, developer tools, competitive programming, founding engineering, autonomous systems, and high-growth technology companies.
Role Overview
Our client is hiring a Product Engineer to build polished, high-performance developer experiences across IDE, web, and CLI surfaces. This role is for an engineer with strong product taste — someone who can talk to users, identify what is missing, make product decisions independently, and ship fast without waiting for a PM or designer to define every detail.
AI coding is now a highly competitive market, and developers expect products that feel magical from the first minute. This person will help define how engineers work alongside AI agents and set the standard for agent UX.
What You’ll Do
- Own features end to end across IDE, web, and CLI products
- Talk directly to developers and use feedback to shape what gets built next
- Build fast, polished, intuitive product experiences with a high attention to detail
- Work on core agent infrastructure, including agent loops, tool use, and agent harnesses
- Define new interaction patterns for human-AI collaboration in software engineering
- Solve hard technical problems that directly improve the user experience
- Move quickly across surfaces while maintaining a high product quality bar
Ideal Background
- Strong full-stack engineering experience
- High product taste and deep attention to UX details
- Strong proficiency with Python, TypeScript, and React
- Genuine empathy for developer workflows and pain points
- Ability to make sound product decisions independently
- Experience building developer tools, IDEs, infrastructure products, or technical products for engineers
- Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, developer tools company, or similarly high-caliber technical environment
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical field
Logistics
- Location: San Francisco or New York City
- Compensation: $200K–$400K base salary
- Role type: Full-time
- Team: Small, senior, and highly technical
