Senior AI Engineer, Product Engineering

The role

Own the direction of the core search API, including real-time monitoring, vertical feeds and new retrieval primitives. Work directly with strategic customers to win, deploy and expand accounts, and turn their feedback into product bets. This is a hybrid product engineering and go-to-market role.

What you will do

• Define the roadmap for core search APIs and adjacent surfaces, deciding what ships, when and why.
• Partner with founders and engineering leaders of top customers to architect integrations and unblock their teams.
• Translate customer conversations into concrete product bets, specs and priorities.
• Run technical deep-dives, write docs and reference implementations, and represent the product to AI builders.
• Work with engineering on API design, performance and developer experience.
• Prototype new API primitives and ship production code into the core stack.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience spanning engineering and product roles
• Significant time on developer-facing or API products
• Ability to write production code
• Deep familiarity with the AI agent and LLM ecosystem
• Track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end
• Strong customer instincts and comfort on customer calls
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Comfort with the uncertainty of an early-stage startup

Nice to have

• Shipped a developer API or platform product that engineers depend on
• Worked closely with sales or solutions teams
• Built or contributed to AI agents, retrieval systems or search infrastructure
• Public footprint in AI or developer tools, such as open source, writing or talks

Benefits

• Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays and an end-of-year shutdown in December
• Health insurance covering 100% of the policyholder and 75% of dependents
• Function Health membership
• 12 weeks paid parental leave in the US
• 401k with 3% match, vested immediately
• $500 work-from-home stipend
• $600 technology stipend for phone and internet
• $1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance
• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
• Meaningful equity

Before you apply

• Participates in E-Verify; work authorization is confirmed through Form I-9 information.
• Some interviews may use AI tools for scheduling, note-taking, transcription or summaries; candidates can opt out by informing their recruiter beforehand.
• Recruiting contact only through official @You.com email addresses; no payment or sensitive personal information is requested.

About the company

You.com is building AI search infrastructure, a trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications and enterprises use to retrieve real-time, citation-backed information. Its platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems.