AI Product Engineer

Rhythms

$120K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of experience building production software, specifically with LLMs, agents, or AI-native applications.
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with React/Next.js, with a background in distributed systems.
  • Ability to prioritize customer problems over merely technological considerations, emphasizing user impact.
  • Experience shipping production-ready agent systems, understanding the transition from prototypes to enterprise implementation.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, quickly iterating in production without relying on detailed PRDs.
  • Proactive ownership mentality, capable of assessing needs and making decisive actions.
  • Experience with the latest AI models, demonstrating an interest in staying at the forefront of technology.

Responsibilities

  • Ship autonomous agent systems that support business operations reliably at an enterprise scale.
  • Own the entire feature lifecycle from understanding customer needs to production deployment.
  • Design multi-agent architecture balancing capability, reliability, and effective orchestration.
  • Develop chat-native user experiences that prioritize user engagement and product sensibility.
  • Advance the AI stack by integrating new features weekly, adjusting based on model improvements.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to take on an early engineering role within a well-backed AI startup.
  • Collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs who have a history of successful exits.
  • Influence the core AI architectures utilized by numerous enterprises.
  • Access to unlimited AI token usage across various models and platforms for development.
  • Comprehensive health benefits, a competitive salary with equity stakes, 401k matching, and a flexible vacation policy.
Full Job Description
The role

You'll be an early product engineer at Rhythms, owning features end-to-end across multi-agent systems, LLM orchestration, and the product experience customers actually use.

This is a builder-first role. You ship to production daily, sit in customer calls, hear feedback unfiltered, and watch your work change how organizations run. No layers, no handoffs-you find the problem, design the solution, ship it, and own what happens next.

What you'll do
  • Ship agent systems that run business operations autonomously-OKR execution, MBR/WBR cadences, Auto-Pilot workflows-at enterprise reliability.
  • Own features end-to-end from customer problem to production. Discovery, design, implementation, measurement.
  • Design multi-agent architectures that balance capability and reliability. Decide when to use what-models, orchestration patterns, evals.
  • Build the chat-native experiences users depend on every day. Product sensibility matters as much as systems design.
  • Push the AI stack forward. We use Claude Code and Cursor, ship AI features weekly, and rewrite our approach as the models improve.

What we're looking for
  • 2-5 years building production software, with hands-on experience shipping LLMs, agents, or AI-native applications in production-not demos.
  • Strong in Python, comfortable in React/Next.js. You've worked on distributed systems.
  • You start with the customer problem, not the technology. You make tradeoffs for user impact, not architectural elegance.
  • You've shipped agent systems that work in production-you know the gap between a working prototype and something enterprises can run on.
  • You move fast, iterate in production, and don't need a PRD to figure out what to build next.
  • You operate like an owner-you see what needs to move, make the call, own the outcome.
  • You're already building with the newest models. You can't imagine going back.

What you'll get
  • Early engineering role at an AI company with enterprise traction, backed by GreenOaks, Madrona, and Accel
  • Direct partnership with serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits-including Ally.io acquired by Microsoft
  • The chance to shape the core AI systems thousands of enterprises run on
  • Unlimited AI token usage-every model and platform you need to build
  • Competitive salary, meaningful early-stage equity, top-tier health benefits, 401k with match, and flexible vacation policy

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