Product Engineer, Labs

Mecka • New York, NY

1d • $140,000 - $180,000

About The Position

As Product Engineer, Labs, you'll build 0-to-1 products for Mecka's Labs team, launching new verticals across robotics, manufacturing, science, reinforcement learning environments and other technical domains. Work directly with users and product colleagues to understand a problem, ship an initial solution and improve it through use. This is a generalist engineering role across frontend, backend and data. You'll learn unfamiliar domains, make practical product decisions and own implementation through production, investigating how users work and what they need.

Requirements

• Engineering experience: You bring 4+ years of engineering experience and have shipped and maintained working products across the frontend, backend and database, with responsibility beyond an initial demonstration.
• Interface development: You can build clear, interactive web applications and handle loading states, errors and complex user input thoughtfully.
• Backend and data: You can design APIs and data models, integrate external systems and debug processing or storage problems.
• Product judgment: You can turn an ambiguous request into a useful first release, work closely with users and revise your approach as evidence changes.
• Adaptability and ownership: You learn unfamiliar workflows quickly, investigate problems independently and communicate clearly with technical and domain experts.

Nice To Haves

• Data-intensive applications, media or document processing, or workflows involving human review.
• Practical experience building AI-enabled products and evaluating their behavior in use.
• Early-stage product development, including making and revisiting scope decisions with a small team.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end workflows: Develop user interfaces, services, APIs and data models. Take a product from an early prototype through deployment and ongoing use.
• Work directly with users: Observe how people work, identify bottlenecks and turn feedback into clear requirements. Make complex tasks easier without losing information users depend on.
• Connect tools and data: Build integrations, imports and exports across unfamiliar systems. Handle inconsistent inputs, validation errors and access boundaries clearly.
• Develop reusable components: Identify common needs across products and build components that are straightforward to maintain. Balance reuse against the needs of the current problem.
• Own reliability: Test, deploy, monitor and support what you ship. Investigate failures across the stack and improve performance and usability based on production evidence.
• Iterate with product judgment: Scope useful releases, instrument important workflows and assess whether changes help users. Communicate technical tradeoffs and collaborate with domain specialists.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed