What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Product Engineer position at Wayline?
We’re building world-class AI agents across voice, chat, web, SMS, and email — and these agents need exceptional product experiences.
We’re looking for a design-minded product engineer who can take complex AI systems and turn them into fast, intuitive, beautiful user experiences across web and mobile.
You’ll own large parts of the product surface area — from editor experiences to real-time AI interactions — and help define what great AI UX looks like.
You
We have an awesome private office at the 44 Montgomery WeWork in San Francisco (Financial District)
We’re an in-person company. We work together on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the office. We go out to lunch together, and sometimes dinner. Tuesdays and Thursdays are flex days — you can come into the office if you like, or work from home.
We’re looking for a design-minded product engineer who can take complex AI systems and turn them into fast, intuitive, beautiful user experiences across web and mobile.
You’ll own large parts of the product surface area — from editor experiences to real-time AI interactions — and help define what great AI UX looks like.
You
- Have strong frontend fundamentals — expert in React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Care deeply about product and design quality — you have a sharp eye for UI/UX and sweat the details
- Have experience building complex, stateful interfaces (editors, dashboards, real-time systems, etc.)
- Are comfortable working full-stack when needed (API integration, backend touchpoints, etc.)
- Have built or contributed to mobile experiences (React Native, responsive web, or similar)
- Have worked with AI-powered features — OpenAI APIs, agents, streaming UIs, or similar
- Understand how to design for latency, real-time updates, and async workflows
- Think like an owner — proactive, fast-moving, and highly accountable
- Ship quickly, but with strong taste and craftsmanship
- Communicate clearly and make good product/engineering tradeoffs
- Have experience with design systems and component libraries
- Have experience with Vercel, modern frontend infra, or performance optimization
- Familiarity with voice interfaces or real-time audio systems
- AI-powered editing and workflow interfaces
- Real-time agent interaction UIs (chat, voice, SMS orchestration)
- Building a cohesive, scalable design system
- Turning complex backend capabilities into simple, elegant product experiences
- Shipping fast iterations directly with founders
We have an awesome private office at the 44 Montgomery WeWork in San Francisco (Financial District)
We’re an in-person company. We work together on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the office. We go out to lunch together, and sometimes dinner. Tuesdays and Thursdays are flex days — you can come into the office if you like, or work from home.
- Mini fridge
- Gym
Salary : $190,000 - $240,000