AI Product Engineer

Casper Studios

$120K — $150K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in engineering with a focus on AI and LLMs.
  • Strong programming skills, with background in debugging and system design.
  • Experience shipping a product using LLMs with real user engagement.
  • Proficiency in data engineering, including data modeling and ETL processes.
  • Familiarity with web application security and cloud cost management.
  • Daily use of modern AI tools with customized workflows.
  • Ability to work independently and address ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end AI product builds from concept to production for clients.
  • Gather requirements, prioritize key work, and pressure-test stakeholder requests.
  • Rapidly prototype with LLMs and transition to production-ready solutions.
  • Conduct data engineering tasks including ingestion, modeling, and ETL.
  • Act as primary technical point of contact for client interactions.
  • Implement analytics and metrics to respond to real usage feedback.
  • Ensure reliability, security, and effective cost management of solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
  • Flexible PTO policy allowing for personalized time off.
  • Health FSA/HSA options to manage out-of-pocket expenses effectively.
  • Life insurance offerings for employee peace of mind.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for engineers who are AI-native, have real fundamentals in programming, data, and systems, and have the judgment to get the most out of LLMs - and know where they break. The work spans enterprise document processing, workflow automation, computer vision, and financial research tooling, across finance, healthcare, and enterprise clients.

This is a role for someone who ships, owns outcomes, and wants unusual amounts of responsibility early.

What You'll Do
  • Own AI product builds end to end, from concept through production, on a client engagement
  • Decide what to build and how: gather requirements, pressure-test what stakeholders ask for, and prioritize the work that matters
  • Prototype fast with LLMs, then harden into production with the data pipelines, integrations, and evals that make it trustworthy
  • Do the data engineering enterprise work requires: ingestion, data modeling, and ETL
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for clients - talk shop with their engineers and give their executives clarity
  • Instrument what you build (analytics, funnel metrics, error analysis) and iterate on real usage, not assumptions
  • Own reliability, security, and cost: auth, secrets, PII handling, and not blowing up the cloud bill
  • Write up what you learn; for the team, for clients, and publicly
What You'll Bring
  • Strong engineering fundamentals: programming, debugging, and system design. You think well beyond the happy path
  • You've shipped something real with an LLM that got actual usage - ideally with error analysis and evals on your outputs
  • Data engineering: data modeling and architecture, plus ETL/pipeline experience (Airflow, Dagster, Inngest, Prefect, or similar)
  • Web and infra fundamentals: auth and web security, profiling slow queries (N+1, unnecessary joins), CI/CD, and cost-aware deployment on a major cloud
  • You use modern AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code) daily, with customized workflows
  • High agency: you frame ambiguous problems, state your assumptions, and push work forward without being managed
  • Strong writing and a high say:do ratio - you can turn a long, meandering client call into a clean set of tickets
Nice To Haves
  • Depth in one of our core verticals: financial services, healthcare, or enterprise / contact-center AI
  • Comfort being client-facing at a senior level
  • Fluency in and preference for TypeScript - much of our stack is full TS
  • You've built observability for an AI product
  • You're plugged into the applied-AI community
Why This Role Is Hard To Fill

Most engineers land on one side of a line. Strong classical engineers often haven't built the judgment to know what LLMs can and can't do. Fast "vibe coders" can spin up a demo but can't debug it once it hits real data, real scale, or a real security requirement. We need both - plus the product sense and agency to run a client build largely alone. Someone who needs clean requirements and heavy supervision won't thrive here, and neither will someone whose work falls apart the moment it leaves the happy path.

You Might Be A Fit If
  • You've built and deployed something 01; shipped it, got real usage, and iterated
  • You're T-shaped: deep in one area (ML, full-stack, data, or security) and rounding out the rest
  • You've been the solo or founding engineer on a product and owned outcomes, not just tickets


Logistics
  • Fully remote, US/Canada based, with occasional client travel. We have team members across North America and internationally, mostly overlapping North American time zones. Work when and where you want, as long as the work gets done
  • Compensation calibrated to your location and seniority - we'll talk comp and align on specifics early


Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
  • Flexible PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
  • Health FSA/HSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
  • Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.

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