What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer position at Shields Group Search?
Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering (On-site, SF)
Location: San Francisco
On-site: 5 to 6 days per week
Visa sponsorship: Available
Shields Group Search is partnering with a venture-backed AI infrastructure company building the bridge between AI agents and the tools teams use every day (GitHub, Gmail, Notion, Salesforce, and more). They are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering to help evolve core APIs and SDKs, ship elegant interfaces, and own product work end to end.
This team is a small group of engineers working on problems from context to search, focused on delivering the most capable connection layer between agents and real-world tooling.
They raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed with notable angels, including Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel), Dharmesh Shah (CTO of HubSpot), and Gokul Rajaram. Earlier this year they 2x’d ARR, with customers ranging from YC companies to Wabi, Glean, Zoom, and even more.
What you’ll do
- Elevate the experience of teams building on the platform by improving core APIs and SDKs
- Deliver elegant interfaces across both the frontend and the SDK
- Own products end to end, taking them from inception to production
- Work closely with customers to win their hearts and improve the product in the process
- Write crisp, articulate documentation
Must haves
- If you are very good, nothing is a must per se
Core product engineering
- You have built product, taking them zero to one
- You care deeply about the craft of the product you are building
- You can hold many different personas in contention while delivering delightful experiences for them
AI native
- You have built with language models
- You have built for language models
- Taste: you have that “finger feel” for what makes a good product
- Typist: you can write docs well and explain complex ideas clearly
- Human: you build trust and admit what you don’t know
Optional
- Multiple years of experience writing TypeScript
- Contributions to a major open-source project
- Started companies or built large side projects
If you’re excited to build the infrastructure layer that helps agents actually do work across the modern SaaS stack, message me here or email to learn more.
Salary : $170,000 - $210,000