What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Product Engineer position at LHi Group Ltd?

Title: Founding AI Product Engineer

Reporting to: Krrish CEO (Co-Founder)

Business Need for the Hire:

Build LiteLLM's second major product alongside the founders.
Bring on an engineer who can own product development end-to-end, from customer discovery through production.
Increase product velocity while maintaining close relationships with users.
Help define product direction as one of the company's first dedicated Product Engineers.

Wider Team and Where This Role Sits:

Reports directly to Krrish.
Founding Product Engineer working closely with the founders and engineering team.
Approximately 50% coding / 50% customer interaction, speaking directly with developers to validate ideas and improve the product.
One Product Engineer is currently transitioning internally, making this a foundational hire for the team.

Essential Skills Required to Interview a Candidate:

2 years of software engineering experience.
Strong Python fundamentals (expertise not required).
Experience building production software from idea to launch.
Comfortable working across backend APIs, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
Strong customer empathy and communication skills.
Startup mentality-comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly.
Experience building products that gained real users is a significant plus.
Strong Computer Science fundamentals (top CS programs are viewed favorably but not required).

Questions to Screen Candidates:

In your ideal role, how much time would you spend coding versus talking to users?
Tell me about a time you shipped something quickly with incomplete information.
Tell me about a product you've built from idea to launch.
Have you built anything that attracted real users? How did you find those users?
How do you gather customer feedback and decide what to build next?
Why are you interested in building developer tools and AI infrastructure?

Interview Process:

30-minute introductory conversation with Krrish.

Virtual technical interview (coding and product-thinking; no AI assistance) including:

San Francisco onsite mock customer discovery/product design session.

Selling Points of the Role/Company:

Founding Product Engineer role with significant ownership.
Work directly with the founders every day.
Build LiteLLM's second major product from the ground up.
50/50 balance between engineering and product/customer discovery.
Gateway powering 100 LLM providers.
Trusted by companies including Adobe, Netflix, NASA, NVIDIA, and OpenAI.
~$15M ARR and growing rapidly while remaining profitable after only a Seed round.
Small, high-impact engineering team where work ships to production quickly.
Opportunity to influence product strategy rather than simply implementing features.
Build products used by thousands of engineering teams worldwide.

Location:

Salary:

$200K-260K base
Exceptional candidates on case to case basic can flex to $300K base. This range will be reviewed directly by the founders.

Benefits:

Bonus:

Equity:

Visa Sponsorship/Relocation Package:

Visa sponsorship available.
Relocation assistance available.
Potential sign-on bonuses typically $5K-10K to offset forfeited equity, with flexibility for exceptional candidates.

Ideal Start Date:

CV Feedback & Interview Feedback Agreed SLAs:

Additional Notes:

Looking for builders who naturally create products people actually use.
Open-source contributions or side projects are strong differentiators.
Values curiosity, customer empathy, and hustle over being a Python or Rust expert.
Typical workload is approximately 60 hours/week, reflecting an early-stage startup environment.
Founders care more about a candidate's ability to build meaningful products than years of experience alone.
Candidates with exceptional backgrounds or standout products should be surfaced directly to the founders.

Salary : $200,000 - $260,000

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