Early Career Product Engineer
Highlight AI3 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product features across the stack, including user-facing experiences and backend systems.
- Partner with product and design to translate user problems and ambiguous ideas into useful experiences.
- Own product work end-to-end by proposing solutions, building them, measuring results, and iterating.
- Work with AI and ML systems to create context-aware experiences and proactive user assistance.
- Contribute to context storage and retrieval, desktop experiences, integrations, and AI-powered workflows.
- Learn new technologies and parts of the stack as needed while helping establish effective engineering practices.
Requirements
- Have 2-4 years of software engineering experience or equivalent experience building software independently.
- Demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Have built and shipped side projects, open-source software, apps, tools, or other independent work.
- Be able to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly and work across the stack.
- Care about end users, product quality, ownership, collaboration, and iterative delivery.
- Preferred qualifications include significant open-source contributions or projects with real users, experience building AI-powered products or using LLMs, experience with React, TypeScript, or Python, experience building desktop, mobile, or developer tools, startup experience, and self-directed technology learning.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and generous equity package.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
- Paid team lunches and dinners during the week.
- Relocation package.
- Fully onsite work five days per week in the San Francisco office.
Tech Stack
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About Highlight AI
Highlight is the shared intelligence layer that turns your team's work into collective knowledge. It maps your team’s work in real-time to proactively route knowledge and reliably automate workflows. By operating as a layer above the tools teams already use, Highlight eliminates the manual burden of information routing. It moves teams from manual prompting to proactive assistance: automatically drafting follow-ups, syncing documentation, and orchestrating tasks across platforms before they're even requested. The result is less time spent coordinating work, and more time doing it. Highlight is headquartered in San Francisco.