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Job Title: Early Product Engineer
Location | On-Site — San Francisco, CA
Time Zone | PST
Role Overview:
We are seeking an Early Product Engineer to help build the core experience at a fast-moving AI video infrastructure startup. The company's first product turns prompts and documents into whiteboard-style explainer videos in seconds, with a bigger goal of making video generation as fast, cheap, and programmable as text generation is today. As one of the first engineering hires, you will own significant parts of the product — from how users interact with it to the systems running behind the scenes. This role suits someone who prefers building real things over managing narrow tickets, and who is energized by figuring out what to build, not just how. You will work side-by-side with the founder, shaping both the product and how the engineering team operates.
Key Responsibilities:
Take product ideas from concept to shipped, working software
Build and maintain APIs supporting core workflows like accounts, jobs, and billing
Develop frontend interfaces that feel polished and dependable
Improve day-to-day product experience: onboarding, usage clarity, account tools
Partner with product, design, and customers to shape what gets built next
Maintain code quality and documentation so others can build on your work
Required Qualifications:
Proven full-stack experience building and shipping modern web applications
Comfortable across typed languages, frontend frameworks, backend APIs, and cloud infrastructure
Strong product sense — able to turn complex needs into simple, usable workflows
Bias toward action and shipping, balanced with care for reliability
Takes full ownership of problems, from definition to resolution
Uses AI tools to increase speed, but drives problem-solving independently
Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco, CA
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in an early-stage or founding engineering capacity
Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
History of working closely with founders or small, fast-moving teams
Tools & Technology:
Modern frontend frameworks
Backend/API frameworks and databases
Cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling
AI-assisted development tools
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