Founding Product Engineer

Platform UX & Design System

Own Asteroid platform UX end-to-end. Build a unified, beautiful design system. Ship core frontend features. Review PostHog recordings, run user interviews, and relentlessly improve the experience.

User Onboarding & Adoption

Make the product so intuitive that users don't need hand-holding. Reduce support load by shipping better product.

Full-stack engineering

When a feature needs building end-to-end, you build it.

Website

Own asteroid.ai. Keep it current, beautiful and optimized for GEO/SEO.

Customer relationships

Be the account manager for a handful of customers. Understand their pain firsthand.

Product launches

Landing pages, launch content, getting the product ready for the spotlight.

Qualifications

• Complete ownership over greenfield product and design engineering, from user research to shipped frontend.
• Taste and can back it up with solid UX principles.
• Takes pride in building elegant, scalable software.
• Surrounded by a team that thrives on shipping and solving hard technical problems.
• Built products and interfaces from scratch with real users. Sees around the corner and builds for what's next.
• Think about what good and bad futures look like in a world where AI agents automate large parts of the economy.
• Proven experience building and shipping products used by thousands of weekly active users, ideally B2B.
• Ability to translate customer feedback into specific, high-impact platform improvements.
• Full-stack engineering capability. In the age of AI, you don't stop at the frontend.
• Incredible taste. A perfectionist who knows when to ship.
• Self-motivated, hard-working, and extremely AI-native.
• Design background (Figma fluency, visual design chops).
• Strong AI engineering skills.
• PM-like instincts. You can run a roadmap, not just execute on one.
• Experience managing customer accounts directly.

Benefits

• 20-min intro call with David (CEO)
• 2-hour take-home. Explore our platform, build agents, identify the biggest UX issues, and show us how you'd make it better.
• 30-min deep dive with Joe (CTO) or David (CEO)
• 1–3 week paid contract-to-hire. Full-time or part-time depending on your circumstances. Work alongside the full team in SF, ideally in person.

Pay

$130K - $160K

Schedule

Full-time or part-time depending on your circumstances. Work alongside the full team in SF, ideally in person.