Senior AI Engineer, Product Engineering

You.com

Senior AI Engineer leading API product direction and customer integration solutions at You.com. Shaping product experiences and collaborating with top customers in a hybrid role.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own API product direction. Define the roadmap for our core search APIs and adjacent surfaces — monitoring, vertical feeds, evaluation tooling, and new primitives we haven't built yet. Decide what ships, when, and why.
Lead solutions for strategic accounts. Partner directly with the founders and engineering leaders of our top customers and prospects. Architect their integration, unblock their teams, and turn pilots into long-term partnerships.
Close the loop. Translate what you hear in customer conversations into concrete product bets. Write the specs, prioritize the roadmap, and make sure the highest-leverage learnings actually become shipped features.
Be the technical face of the product. Run technical deep-dives, write the docs and reference implementations that matter most, and show up in the spaces where AI builders are deciding what to use.
Set the technical bar. Work closely with engineering on API design, performance, and developer experience. Push back when something isn't good enough; ship when it is.
Stay in the code. This is a hands-on role. You'll prototype new API primitives and ship production code into the core stack when the highest-leverage thing to do is just build it yourself.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience spanning engineering and product roles, with significant time spent on developer-facing or API products. You can still write production code and want to — this role expects it.
Deep familiarity with the AI agent and LLM ecosystem — you understand how agents are being built, where retrieval fits in, and where the current tooling falls short.
A track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end. You don't wait to be told what to do; you find the highest-leverage thing and go.
Strong customer instincts. You enjoy customer calls, you're sharp at reading what's said and unsaid, and you can hold technical credibility with senior engineers and commercial credibility with executives.
Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a spec, a sales follow-up, and a postmortem with equal clarity.
Comfort with the messy reality of an early-stage startup — shifting priorities, incomplete information, and the need to make calls without consensus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hubs in San Francisco and New York City offering regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions
Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge*
A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for dependents*
12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US*
401k program, 3% match - vested immediately!*
$500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date*
$600 technology stipend to support a portion of our hybrid/remote team's cell phone and internet expenses*
$1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals*
The chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research

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Hard Skills & Tools

API designproduction codeprototypingtechnical documentationevaluation toolingdeveloper experienceintegration architectureAI agentsLLM ecosystem

Soft Skills

customer instinctscommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipadaptability