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Founding Product Engineer (Alameda)

ExecutivePlacements.com
Alameda, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/29/2026
Role Overview

A Product Engineer in this role will focus on building and scaling a high-quality AI agent product with strong UX, fullstack development, and close user collaboration, and should bring 2 years of startup experience, strong TypeScript skills, and a deep interest in the AI agent space while helping build high-taste products for self-learning AI agents and playing a key role in scaling the product to meet growing customer demand while maintaining an exceptional user experience in a rapidly evolving AI agent ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with a product designer to ship new features and refine existing user flows based on customer feedback.
  • Engage directly with customers to understand needs, gather feedback, validate ideas, and pitch new features.
  • Develop core product features across the stack (front-end, back-end, and database work) with a focus on quality and reliability.
  • Experiment with new features and technologies, build quick demos for the team, and productionize promising solutions.
  • Contribute to product and design reviews, ensuring the experience is intuitive, polished, and delightful to use.

Requirements

  • 2 years of experience in product, fullstack, or frontend engineering at technology startups (Seed to Series E).
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, with experience either across the stack or in frontendleaning roles.
  • Experience at a hightaste product company or at an AI/agentnative startup.
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

What were looking for

  • Strong product sense and attention to user experience; you care about how things feel, not just how they work.
  • High agency and ownership mindsetyou proactively find problems, propose solutions, and ship iteratively.
  • Genuine excitement about the AI agent space and improving agent behavior for real users.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving, experimental environment with tight feedback loops from users and teammates.

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