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Building AI-native products is a different problem than building deterministic software: the same input won't always produce the same output. Good product engineering here means designing experiences that stay useful, trustworthy, and easy to understand even when the AI underneath doesn't behave the same way twice — and knowing when that's a product design problem, not just a model problem.
We're looking for a Software Engineer with 2-7 years of experience who thinks like a product owner, not just an implementer. You're comfortable being handed a vague, half-formed problem and figuring out what's actually worth building. You default to empathy for the researcher or participant on the other end of the screen, and you'd rather ship something real and learn from it than wait for a perfect spec. You're fluent enough with modern LLM-based systems to build good product experiences on top of them, even if tuning the model itself isn't your job.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end delivery of product features — from an ambiguous problem statement to shipped, working software real researchers and participants use
- Partner directly with Product and Design to help define what should be built, not just how to build it
- Use our design system to make sound, independent calls on smaller UX and interaction decisions, and know when a change is big enough to loop Design in
- Build the product surfaces (web app flows, dashboards, in-product controls) that make AI-driven behavior understandable, controllable, and trustworthy for the people using it
- Integrate LLM-based features and agent outputs into real product flows — treating them as a building block you design around, not infrastructure you need to own
- Talk to users directly when you need to; bring what you learn back into design and prioritization decisions
- Ship fast, instrument what you ship, and iterate based on real usage rather than a fixed spec
- Collaborate with AI-focused engineers on deeper model or agent tuning when a feature's behavior depends on it
- Sweat the craft: interaction design, edge cases, error states, and how the feature actually feels to use
What you bring
- 2-7 years of software engineering experience shipping full-stack product features to real users
- Comfortable working across the stack (frontend and backend) and picking up whatever's needed to ship
- A track record of taking a vague, underspecified problem and shipping something real without a fully-scoped ticket
- Genuine empathy for users: you default to understanding what someone is actually trying to do, not just what the ticket says
- Working fluency with LLM-based systems: you've built features on top of LLM APIs or agents and understand prompting and non-determinism well enough to design good product experiences around them
- Strong product judgment: you can reason about tradeoffs (build vs. buy, LLM vs. deterministic logic, speed vs. polish) and push back when a request doesn't serve the user
- Comfortable using our design system to independently make good UX calls on smaller details, without needing Product or Design sign-off for every decision
- Comfort using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) as a real part of your workflow
- High agency and a bias toward shipping
Nice to have
- Experience building product features on top of conversational or voice AI
- Familiarity with LLM observability/eval tooling, even if you're not the one owning it
- Experience partnering closely with UX research or qualitative research teams
- Direct experience talking to users or running lightweight user research yourself
Of course, what is outlined above is an ideal set of expectations; however, business needs and other projects and tasks may shift, and additional tasks could be assigned at the discretion of your manager. If this role excites you but you're not sure you check every box, we'd still love to hear from you.
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View Company Profiledscout is a premier, enterprise-grade qualitative research platform engineered to orchestrate massive-scale user experience (UX) ecosystems and intelligent remote insights workflows. Operating as a highly integrated consumer telemetry hub, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional localized focus groups by seamlessly deploying advanced video diary architectures, rigorous participant screening frameworks, and cohesive qualitative data analysis pipelines. Moving beyond rigid legacy market research methodologies, dscout empowers global enterprise design teams, elite product managers, and UX researchers to dynamically synchronize their product development cycles with world-class human-centric insights. Under the hood, their sophisticated research infrastructure natively handles complex multimedia data ingestion, instantaneous sentiment transcription, and seamless multi-phase study deployment, ensuring frictionless participant readiness and uncompromising contextual fidelity. What sets dscout apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless research orchestration; by bridging the gap between strategic product vision and rigorous in-the-moment consumer behavior, the platform empowers organizations to radically accelerate their design velocity, optimize feature adoption, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous user-centric dominance in the modern digital landscape.
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