About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take ownership of major product areas from concept through production as a hands-on full-stack engineer. Work across interfaces, backend services and infrastructure, collaborating with research and infrastructure colleagues and learning directly from end users. The position is an early-team seat with real influence on product and technical direction.
What you'll do
- Own new product areas end to end, from first prototype to production release.
- Build across the full stack, including interfaces, backend workflows, AI model orchestration and supporting infrastructure.
- Turn emerging AI capabilities into dependable, intuitive products.
- Speak with users regularly, learn how they work and iterate quickly on their feedback.
- Prototype rapidly and make sound product and technical decisions.
- Help shape the product, the technical architecture and the team culture.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong engineering skills combined with good product judgment and taste.
- A history of launching customer-facing software that gained real adoption, ideally built from scratch.
- Comfort working across product, engineering, models and infrastructure rather than in one narrow specialty.
- Evidence of exceptional ownership, such as founding a company, leading a major product or delivering consequential work at a leading technology company.
- High agency, speed, ambition and a founder mentality.
- Approximately 3 to 6 years of applied or product engineering experience, with exceptional candidates at other levels welcome.
- Comfort in a very early, fast-moving, self-directed environment.
Bonus points
- Experience at a company building AI-driven products.
- Early-team or founder experience.
- Standout achievement in a competitive field such as programming or math olympiads, quantitative work or elite competition.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 500,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering skills
- Strong product judgment and taste
- History of launching customer-facing software with meaningful adoption
- Experience building software from scratch
- Ability to work across product, engineering, models, and infrastructure
- Evidence of exceptional ownership, such as founding a company, leading a major product, or delivering consequential work
- Approximately 3 to 6 years of applied or product engineering experience
- Comfort working in an early, fast-moving, self-directed environment
- Experience building AI-driven products
- Early-team or founder experience
- Standout achievement in programming, mathematics, quantitative work, or elite competition
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
