Product Engineer (AI Driven)

Requisitos

• AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that works closely with founders and executives to create custom software and machine learning solutions
• We build products, platforms, and internal ventures that increase agency for all conscious beings
• We combine world-class software engineering, AI expertise, and product design to ship ambitious projects that matter
• We’re looking for a **Full-Stack Developer** who bridges modern web engineering with practical AI
• someone who can design, build, and ship production-ready, AI-powered applications while maintaining the standards of a top-tier software developer. ## **What You’ll Do** - Design and ship end-to-end applications from prototype to production across frontend, backend, and cloud. - Build clean, scalable APIs and services and integrate AI models where they create real value. - Create AI pipelines (data ingestion, preprocessing, embeddings, retrieval, orchestration) that are reliable and maintainable. - Engineer prompting strategies and guardrails for real-world performance (latency, cost, accuracy), not just demo hype. - Integrate AI features into full-stack apps with robust APIs, frontend UX, and CI/CD pipelines. - Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to deliver polished product experiences. - Continuously evaluate new AI tools/models for performance, cost, and fit. - Write production-grade, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python (and other languages as needed). ## **What We’re Looking For** - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Proven track record shipping production applications (links to live products welcome). - Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), embeddings, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks. - Strong command of modern web stacks (e.g., React/Next.js, Node.js/Nest/Fastify, Python/FastAPI) and cloud infrastructure. - Solid grasp of architecture, scalability, performance, and security. - A bias toward shipping with best practices (testing, code reviews, monitoring/observability). - Clear communication, self-management, and comfort in a collaborative remote environment. - Comfortable picking up new languages and frameworks, leveraging modern AI dev tools to move faster. ## **What Sets You Apart** - Experience fine-tuning models or training custom models on domain-specific data. - Contributions to open-source AI or developer tooling. - Mature approach to prompt engineering and evaluation (beyond trial-and-error). - Background in data engineering or MLOps. - Passion for AI alignment, agency-increasing technologies, and ethical AI development
• If you can write prompts that work today and code that still works in two years, we want to talk to you
• Salary range from $115k/year to $185k/year (if you're based in LA)
• Not in the range? That's fine, you can still apply and our team may fit you in a more senior position that we're not actively hiring for right now, since we are growing fast and may have other openings soon. **EQUITY** Working at AE means receiving equity in our client projects and in Skunkworks ventures
• The equity is priced at $0 when granted for tax reasons, but AE invests millions into these projects
• Equity comes from reduced margins on client work and internal funding
• You get a real stake in the things you help build
• The longer you stay, the more value you create and the more equity you receive
• If you leave on good terms, you can retain 20% of your equity by staying engaged
• If you spin out a Skunkworks venture, you retain 100%