Product Development Engineer I (AI-Native)

Phenom People Pvt Ltd•Horsham, PA

12d•$80,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

Phenom is seeking a Product Development Engineer to turn ideas and customer needs into validated product features and agentic capabilities, owning work from prototype through production. The role involves building and shipping features, supporting users, debugging issues, and taking end-to-end responsibility for outcomes. The engineer will develop reusable agentic skills, use AI-assisted engineering tools, maintain customer context for agents, and work within controls that separate analysis from action, require approval for high-risk changes, and log decisions for audit. The role is onsite five days per week. Candidates must live within 50 miles of Horsham, Pennsylvania, or be willing to relocate. Phenom does not sponsor, transfer, or extend employment-based visas for this position.

Requirements

0–3 years of software development experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
Strong fundamentals and critical-thinking skills.
Ability to work across the stack and build with modern AI coding tools and agents.
Customer empathy and ability to determine which customer problems are worth solving.
End-to-end ownership and follow-through, including continued improvement after delivery.
Adaptability and eagerness to adopt new tools and change workflows.
Strong communication skills and ability to align with colleagues and customers.
Comfort with varied work including building, debugging, shipping, and customer calls.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, Big-O complexity, and decomposition into clean, testable components.
Knowledge of object-oriented and functional concepts, clean-code practices, and sensible code and API design.
Fluency with Git, branches, pull requests, and code review.
Working knowledge of REST APIs and JSON, plus basic SQL and relational and/or NoSQL data modeling.
Ability to write unit and integration tests and diagnose issues using logs, traces, and stack traces.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience building AI or agent products, workflow orchestration, or observability, or building agent workflows using an Agent SDK.
Comfort with a Unix/Linux shell, exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP, and familiarity with CI/CD concepts.
Hands-on experience with modern AI coding assistants and familiarity with LLM or agent concepts.

Responsibilities

Build products on the Phenom platform, rapidly prototyping and hardening valuable work for customer use.
Design, build, validate, ship, and continuously improve product features end to end.
Build and improve reusable, versioned agentic skills that engineering teams can compose and rerun.
Use coding agents and custom skills to drive pull requests, and update related observability as part of the work.
Debug systematically using logs, traces, and prior incidents to identify and fix root causes.
Own customer delivery, including deployment gates and hypercare, partnering with reliability engineers on deep platform issues.
Maintain structured, per-customer context for agents and skills.
Follow safeguards that separate analysis from action, require human approval for high-risk changes, and log decisions for audit.
Collaborate with customers and colleagues, including asking customer questions and identifying worthwhile problems to solve.