Product Software Engineer
The Product Software Engineer at Confidential Client is responsible for developing innovative AI-powered applications and services that leverage the company's hardware and models to deliver meaningful user experiences. This role involves full-stack development, close collaboration with customers and designers, and continuous experimentation with AI technologies to create intuitive, polished products that bring frontier AI capabilities to businesses and individuals.
About Careertakes
👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Computer Hardware Manufacturing.
Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.
About the role
Confidential Client is building a full-stack platform that combines hardware, models, and software to bring powerful AI capabilities to end users. As a Product Software Engineer on this team, you'll turn advanced AI capabilities into polished, reliable applications and integrations that customers love. This is a hands-on, product-minded engineering role: you will prototype, ship, and iterate across the stack while collaborating closely with designers and customers.
Employment type: Full-time — In person (Cambridge, MA)
Compensation: $140,000 - $170,000 + Equity
What You’ll Do
- Build AI-driven products: develop applications, agents, assistants, and automations that integrate local models into real user workflows
- Create polished experiences: design and implement intuitive, delightful UIs that make complex AI features approachable
- Engineer platform components: implement frontend and backend services, APIs, and integrations to connect models to applications and workflows
- Experiment and iterate: explore model techniques, agent frameworks, and harnesses; prototype and validate new capabilities
- Own product outcomes: work directly with users to identify opportunities, take features from concept to production, and continuously improve them
Who We’re Looking For
- Strong engineering fundamentals and a proven track record of shipping software quickly
- Product-minded: you can translate ambiguous user needs into clear, useful features
- Full-stack flexibility: comfortable working on frontend interfaces, backend services, integrations, and APIs
- AI engineering experience: hands-on familiarity with LLMs, agents, tool calling, and modern AI development tooling; experience integrating models into production products
- Good design sense: appreciation for UI/UX and building beautiful, polished, intuitive software
- Technical curiosity: you stay current with AI research and tooling and can rapidly turn ideas into working prototypes
- Independent and communicative: able to own projects, move with minimal direction, and collaborate across functions
Preferred technical skills (examples of technologies used):
- TypeScript / React
- Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C/C++
- API design and backend systems
- UI/UX and frontend engineering
- Experience building real applications that use LLMs or agent frameworks
Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
Compensation & Location
- Location: Cambridge, MA (on-site)
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $140,000 - $170,000 per year, plus equity
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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