Cresta - Senior Product Engineer, Cresta Labs
Requirements
• 5+ years as a software/ML engineer on user-facing systems with strong full-stack engineering skills. • Experience building and shipping products or major features with significant end-to-end ownership. • Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, AI workflows or applied ML products. • Strong product judgment and the ability to simplify complex technical ideas into intuitive user experiences. • Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces where the right answer is not yet obvious. • Ability to move quickly from idea to prototype while maintaining strong engineering rigor. • Strong communication skills, especially when explaining technical concepts to cross-functional audiences. • Experience designing and building evaluation and testing frameworks for machine learning systems • A practical approach to validation, including user research, instrumentation, metrics, and evaluation. • Previous experience in a startup or fast-paced product environment • Note on Our Hiring Process: • We highly value your time and engineering craftsmanship. To ensure a streamlined and objective process, the first step for qualified applicants following an initial resume review is a self-paced CoderPad technical assessment. This allows you to showcase your practical coding and problem-solving skills in a real-world environment before moving into conversational interview rounds.
Responsibilities
• Build zero-to-one AI product experiences from early concept through prototype, validation, and productionization. • Work with users, product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and customer-facing teams to identify high-impact opportunities. • Translate ambiguous customer needs and product ideas into clear workflows, interfaces, and technical designs. • Build and improve AI agent development, testing, evaluation, monitoring, and optimization workflows. • Use product data, user feedback, and evaluation results to understand what is working and what needs to improve. • Create clear demos, product notes, technical docs, and recommendations that help teams align and move faster. • Help define the product and technical bar for AI-native experiences at Cresta.
Benefits
• We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life: • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family • Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it • Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child • Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future • Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office • Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced • In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees • Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table. • The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family. • Salary Range: $190,000–$270,000 + Offers Equity • Our use of AI in recruiting: We may use AI tools in our recruiting process, which require human review and oversight. If you have questions about our use of AI or wish to opt out, please contact [email protected] (if you are opting out, please use the subject ‘Opt-Out’ in your email).Recording & AI transcription: We do not authorize candidates to record or use AI transcription of any interview by phone, notetaker app, AI glasses, or other device. Candidates may request an exception or accommodation for review during the interview process as needed.Recruiting impersonation scams: We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. • Our use of AI in recruiting: • Recording & AI transcription: • Recruiting impersonation scams:
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