Founding AI Product Engineer

LiteLLM•San Francisco, CA

21h•$170,000 - $230,000

About The Position

LiteLLM is seeking a Product Engineer to work directly with the founders to identify developer needs, rapidly ship products, and build tools used by thousands of engineering teams. This role blends product management and software engineering, involving customer interaction, problem-solving, solution design, coding, and feature shipping. The engineer will own problems end-to-end, from conception to production, with responsibilities ranging from building new features and redesigning user experiences to integrating new providers and launching new products.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Experience building production software, preferably with Python.
Comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend, frontend, infrastructure, APIs).
Strong product intuition and curiosity about how customers use software.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
High ownership—you naturally identify problems and solve them without waiting to be asked.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
Excited by shipping quickly and learning from real users.

Nice To Haves

Experience at an early-stage startup.
Experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
Open source contributions.
You've built and launched your own product.
Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMs, or developer platforms.

Responsibilities

Build new product features from concept to production.
Work directly with customers to understand pain points and validate solutions.
Ship quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
Prototype new ideas and iterate based on user feedback.
Own major product areas and continuously improve them over time.
Design backend APIs and services using Python and FastAPI.
Build intuitive developer experiences across our API, dashboard, and CLI.
Collaborate directly with the founders on product direction and technical decisions.
Help define and build LiteLLM's second major product.