Product Development Engineer I (AI-Native) (Onsite role)

Job Requirements

• 1-4 years of software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field required; Master's degree preferred.
• Strong fundamentals and critical thinking — AI raises the bar on judgment, it doesn’t replace it.
• Comfortable across the stack and building with modern AI coding tools and agents.
• Customer empathy — you can sit with a customer, ask the right questions, and decide which problems are worth solving.
• End-to-end ownership — you finish what you start and keep improving it.
• Adaptable — eager to adopt new tools and reinvent your workflow as the tooling changes (often weekly).
• A strong communicator who aligns quickly with colleagues and customers.
• Thrives on variety — building, debugging, shipping, and customer calls in the same week.

Technical Skills

• Programming proficiency — write clean, maintainable code in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, or Go).
• Computer science foundations — strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, complexity (Big-O), and decomposing problems into clean, testable components.
• Software design principles — object-oriented and functional concepts, clean-code practices, and sensible code and API design.
• Version control & collaboration — day-to-day fluency with Git, branches, pull requests, and code review.
• APIs & databases — working knowledge of REST APIs and JSON, plus basic SQL and data modeling with relational and/or NoSQL stores.
• Testing & debugging — writing unit and integration tests and diagnosing issues methodically from logs, traces, and stack traces.
• Command line & cloud (a plus) — comfort in a Unix / Linux shell, with exposure to a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD concepts.
• AI tooling (a plus) — hands-on with modern AI coding assistants and familiarity with LLM or agent concepts.

How We Work

• An AI-native engineering culture
• Big ownership, few meetings — we keep things small and autonomous, trust people to make local decisions, and protect focus time; alignment over ceremony, impact over output.
• AI-native, not AI-on-top — we continuously find where work slows down and apply agents and skills to remove the bottleneck across planning, code generation, review, testing, and support.
• Builders and platform engineers, side by side — deep infrastructure and reliability work keeps the platform stable while builders turn ideas into visible products fast.
• Copilot before autonomy — agents start by analyzing, recommending, and drafting while engineers execute, and graduate to auto-remediating known-safe failures only after evaluations pass.
• AI is welcome in technical interviews — it’s how we work, so pair-programming and problem-solving with AI is a positive signal. (We’ll talk through behavioral and design topics without it.)

Pay

Expected salary range $80,000-90,000

Benefits

• Flexible hours and working schedules
• Growing organization with career pathing and development opportunities
• Tons of perks and extras in every location for all Phenoms!

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

We want you to be your best self and to pursue your passions! Benefits/programs to support holistic employee health

Our commitment to diversity runs deep! Diversity is essential to building phenomenal teams, products, and customer experiences.

Phenom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer taking collective action to build a more inclusive environment where every candidate and employee feels welcomed.

We recognize there is more to be done. Our teams are committed to continuous improvement until these powerful ideas are ingrained in our culture for Phenom and employers everywhere!