Product Engineer

Imbue • San Francisco, CA

19d • $170,000 - $350,000

About The Position

Imbue is an AI company building open-source tools intended to make technology serve people, including products for building personalized software, filtering social media feeds, running coding agents, managing agents, reviewing code, distributing tests, integrating local agents with APIs, and optimizing code and agents. The Product Engineer will help shape the product and build it from the ground up, contributing to both technical implementation and the overall direction of the evolving product. The role spans the full stack, involves understanding customer needs, and contributes to the product roadmap. It may particularly suit someone who has been or wants to become a founder of a software product company. The company emphasizes product intuition and judgment: identifying what matters to users and making it happen. The role includes engaging with users, prototyping ideas, evaluating feedback, enabling rapid iteration, shipping across multiple interfaces, and collaborating with product design. Compensation is $170,000–$350,000 cash plus equity, with packages varying based on multiple factors.

Requirements

• Experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience with Python.
• Strong product intuition and judgment.
• Motivation to solve real problems for real customers.
• Interest in understanding and talking to users.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and work independently without explicit directions.
• Experienced with or interested in becoming a founder of a software product company.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user interviews and ask insightful questions while shadowing current or potential users.
• Implement rough prototypes for potential product ideas or iterations.
• Collect, parse, and develop ideas from feedback provided by internal and external users.
• Create code abstractions that enable fast iteration and use judgment to remove code that contributes less to product fit.
• Ship backend and frontend code for web, command-line, IDE, and other interfaces.
• Collaborate with the product design team to turn promising ideas into product features.
• Help shape the product and contribute to its roadmap.
• Build across the company's technology stack and understand customer needs.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Benefits (not otherwise specified).
• Lunch provided daily to onsite employees.
• $250 monthly lifestyle stipend.
• Budget for self-improvement, including coaching, courses, and conferences.
• Opportunities to co-create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture.
• Time for learning, reading papers, and understanding prior work.
• Team events, dinners, off-sites, and informal time together.

What This Job Offers

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