Staff Product Engineer

The role

You will set the technical direction for new AI native developer tooling. You will own architecture, drive 0-1 product initiatives, and mentor senior talent.

What you will do

• Own and drive the architectural direction for new products.
• Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive the development of products from 0-1.
• Accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces.

Required qualifications

• Expertise in building products that customers love.
• Background setting and leading technical direction of a product from an early stage through to industry recognition.
• Power user of coding agents.
• Track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction as an individual contributor.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
• Competitive base + equity.
• 401K match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Annual offsite.
• Early-exercise stock options
• Unlimited agent tokens
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

About the company

Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads fast using a global fleet of bare-metal machines. The company is extending its CI infrastructure into a broader platform for running agent sandboxes at scale.