Staff/Principal Product Engineer

The role

You will own the full arc of product bets from research and discovery to building proofs of concept or MVPs. You will work on deep systems and AI work including agentic workflows, agent harness improvements, and backend systems.

What you will do

• Own the full arc of a product bet: research, discovery, customer and data analysis, scoping, and building the proof of concept or MVP.
• Work directly with customers and the go-to-market team to understand agent performance.
• Design and build agentic workflows, agent harness improvements, tool integrations, and backend systems.
• Decide what to build, cut, or kill based on evidence.
• Hand off proven prototypes to the platform engineering team or productionize them yourself.
• Set the bar for evaluating agent quality through evals, instrumentation, and metrics.
• Collaborate with the Head of Product and founders on product direction and technical strategy.
• Debug and solve problems across the stack.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping production software.
• Experience as a founder, founding engineer, or product engineer at an early-stage company.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with Python and TypeScript experience.
• Full stack capability.
• Comfort with ambiguity.
• Experience with LLM-based systems, agents, or agentic workflows in production.
• Experience with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
• Based in or able to work hybrid from New York City or London.
• Fluency in English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience building vertical AI products, ideally in real estate, proptech, or another operations-heavy industry.
• Experience with AWS technologies.
• Experience with voice, SMS, or email infrastructure.
• Comfort presenting to customers and partners, and communicating data-driven arguments to a business audience.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity options
• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
• Snacks
• A generous tech budget
• Unlimited vacation
• Company outings

Before you apply

• Uniti AI participates in E-Verify. After a job offer is accepted and Form I-9 is completed, we will use E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.

About the company

Uniti AI is a New York City-based Series A startup building advanced AI sales and support agents for the real estate industry.