Product Engineer
US$115,000 – US$185,000 / yr base salary
Posted 20 Aug 2025
Advertised as “Product Engineer (AI Driven)”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
| Base salary | US$115,000 – US$185,000 / yr |
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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.