Product Engineer, AI
About the role
Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI. We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we’re building the infrastructure to make that real for both consumers and businesses.
Role Summary
The Product Engineer, AI role is intended for an individual with extraordinary talent and ambition who wants to build the future of design and commerce AI and who demonstrates founder-mode ownership. You will report directly to our Co-Founder & CEO, Mariam Naficy, and work alongside our engineers, designers, and AI researchers to launch category-defining experiences.
What You’ll Do
- Design and launch work that has real-world impact, cultural visibility, and end-to-end ownership, shaping an entirely new category and product paradigm
- Collaborate closely with leading scientists, AI researchers, and designers to integrate cutting-edge models and tools into intuitive, production-ready features
- Own end-to-end product workflows from ideation to launch, including user research, technical scoping, coding, and post-launch iteration
- Write and maintain system prompts
- Design, build and test agentic workflows, LLM chains, and multimodal model calls to power core user actions
- Prototype, test, and refine generative AI interfaces that make product creation feel magical, personal, and effortless
- Implement taste/quality controls, define acceptance thresholds, and instrument on-surface quality metrics to protect user trust at scale
What We’re Looking For
- A clear thinker and communicator who brings structure to ambiguity and speaks the language of engineers, researchers, and designers alike
- A high-agency operator who moves fast, takes ownership, and has bias toward impact
- A tasteful, low-ego teammate who brings humility, energy, and judgment to every interaction
- A strong opinions, loosely held – unafraid to speak your mind, but receptive to new ideas and changing priors
- You think beyond execution, and prioritize the most urgent, product-defining problems
- A growth mindset – working in AI means constantly learning and re-evaluating your views
- A strong product sense and attention to user experience: you care deeply about making products that feel magical, manufacturable, and intuitive
Qualifications
- Availability to start in the near term
- A Computer Science or Engineering degree, with 2+ years of rigorous software development experience
- Experience building agentic workflows in personal, research, or production settings; can design and ship a modern agentic system from end-to-end
- Fluency with agent tooling (LangChain or equivalent custom stacks)
- Techically fluent builder comfortable reading source code, working in notebooks, and debugging eval pipelines
- A demonstrated passion and curiosity for AI: you keep up with trends, emerging innovations, and new applications, and think critically about how to leverage them
- Experience building or shipping products: personal projects, internships, startups, or open-source contributions all count
- Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure — LLMs (and their limitations), prompt engineering, multimodal/image models, vector databases, and agent frameworks. Bonus: early-stage startup experience (Seed–Series B), prior founding experience, or significant shipped side projects
Bonus
- Additional Competitive compensation
- Lunch provided daily
- Arcade is an equal opportunity employer