Product Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a startup support organization's engineering team to build full-stack products for admissions, events, and internal operations. You will work closely with operational teams and own product decisions from understanding a problem through design and deployment. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and ship applications for admissions workflows, events, and internal tools. - Develop event systems for registration, coordination, and media handling. - Integrate with external services such as calendars, messaging, email, and data pipelines. - Build AI and search capabilities, including semantic search, embeddings, and natural-language interfaces. - Automate application scheduling, notifications, status tracking, email triage, and deadline workflows. - Create dashboards and analytics to track pipeline health and operational metrics. - Work with partners and operations teams to improve processes and reduce manual work. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 1 to 12 years of experience building and shipping full-stack products. - Experience owning products end-to-end, including problem definition, user interface decisions, and deployment. - Strong frontend and backend skills, with experience building polished interfaces and production systems. - Experience with Rails, React, PostgreSQL, or comparable technologies; familiarity with Python, LLMs, semantic search, and embeddings is relevant. - Recent experience building AI projects or shipping AI features. - Startup or early-stage company experience, with the autonomy to make decisions without a predefined roadmap. - Strong computer science fundamentals, demonstrated through education or exceptional project work. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary is $185,000 to $485,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in the United States, with a willingness to commute to or relocate near the San Francisco office. The role is in-office five days per week.