You.com - Senior AI Engineer, Product Engineering
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience spanning engineering and product roles, with significant time spent on developer-facing or API products. You can still write production code and want to — this role expects it. • Deep familiarity with the AI agent and LLM ecosystem — you understand how agents are being built, where retrieval fits in, and where the current tooling falls short. • A track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end. You don't wait to be told what to do; you find the highest-leverage thing and go. • Strong customer instincts. You enjoy customer calls, you're sharp at reading what's said and unsaid, and you can hold technical credibility with senior engineers and commercial credibility with executives. • Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a spec, a sales follow-up, and a postmortem with equal clarity. • Comfort with the messy reality of an early-stage startup — shifting priorities, incomplete information, and the need to make calls without consensus. • You've shipped a developer API or platform product that real engineers depend on. • You've worked closely with sales or solutions teams in a previous role, or led that motion yourself. • You've built or contributed to AI agents, retrieval systems, or search infrastructure. • You have a public footprint — open-source, writing, talks — in the AI or developer-tools space.
Responsibilities
• Own API product direction. Define the roadmap for our core search APIs and adjacent surfaces — monitoring, vertical feeds, evaluation tooling, and new primitives we haven't built yet. Decide what ships, when, and why. • Own API product direction. • Lead solutions for strategic accounts. Partner directly with the founders and engineering leaders of our top customers and prospects. Architect their integration, unblock their teams, and turn pilots into long-term partnerships. • Lead solutions for strategic accounts. • Close the loop. Translate what you hear in customer conversations into concrete product bets. Write the specs, prioritize the roadmap, and make sure the highest-leverage learnings actually become shipped features. • Close the loop. • Be the technical face of the product. Run technical deep-dives, write the docs and reference implementations that matter most, and show up in the spaces where AI builders are deciding what to use. • Be the technical face of the product. • Set the technical bar. Work closely with engineering on API design, performance, and developer experience. Push back when something isn't good enough; ship when it is. • Set the technical bar. • Stay in the code. This is a hands-on role. You'll prototype new API primitives and ship production code into the core stack when the highest-leverage thing to do is just build it yourself. • Stay in the code.
Benefits
• Leverage. The decisions you make will compound across every customer we serve and every agent built on our APIs. • Leverage. • Surface area. You'll touch product, engineering, GTM, and strategy. If you want a path toward a senior product or technical leadership role, this is rocket fuel. • Surface area. • Learning & Collaboration. You'll work with world-class talent on search, infrastructure and AI problems. This team has a history on defining every part of the stack, you’ll never get bored! • Learning & Collaboration. • Timing. Agent infrastructure is one of the defining categories of this decade, and the next 18 months will determine who wins it. • Timing. • Compensation. Competitive base, meaningful equity, and the upside of a startup team building something foundational. • Our salary bands are structured based on a combination of geographic tiers and internal leveling. Compensation is determined by multiple factors assessed during the interview process, with the final offer reflecting these considerations. • $200,000—$250,000 USD • Hubs in San Francisco and New York City offering regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions • Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge* • A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for dependents* • 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US* • 401k program, 3% match - vested immediately!* • $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date* • $600 technology stipend to support a portion of our hybrid/remote team's cell phone and internet expenses* • $1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals* • The chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research • Certain perks and benefits are limited to full-time employees only • You.com participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. (English/Spanish: E-Verify Participation/Right to Work) We are also an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. Please let us know if you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process. • Beware of recruiting scams: You.com will only contact you through official @You.com email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.
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