{"id":13995,"date":"2026-03-20T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/?post_type=job_listing&#038;p=13995"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:27:12","slug":"california-396-ai-product-engineer","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/vaga\/california-396-ai-product-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Product Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descripci\u00f3n completa del puesto<br \/>About Tacit<\/p>\n<p>We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can\u2019t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for a full stack\u00a0AI product engineer\u00a0to turn whiteboard ideas into magical, user\u2011facing products! You\u2019ll be working on core product: crafting the apps, interactions, and services\u00a0that ship on our devices and companion clients.<\/p>\n<p>What You\u2019ll Do:\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Own the product stack\u00a0(Rust, Swift, K8s\/Self-hosted) that powers voice dictation, computer use agent execution, and real-time interactions across wearable hardware, desktop, web, and mobile. \u2022\u00a0Build agentic workflows: intent understanding, tool\/function calling, action execution, and feedback loops that feel fast and reliable. \u2022 Design and prototype\u00a0voice-first UX\u00a0(wake words, push-to-talk, streaming partials, editing, confirmations, error recovery) and polish until it feels like magic. \u2022 Build apps that turn raw sensing of speech outputs into useful actions (compose messages, navigate apps, run commands, control tools). \u2022 Implement guardrails and observability for agents (permissions, \u201care you sure?\u201d moments, logging, replay, evaluation, and debugging). \u2022 Own project requirements and deliver high-quality results. \u2022 Address bugs, optimize for latency and reliability, and ensure system stability under real-time constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements:\u00a0\u2022 Proficiency in Rust, Swift, AWS, Linux. \u2022 Have shipped multiple 0 1 products or ambitious side projects that real people use. Bonus points if involving real-time voice, streaming UX, or automation. \u2022 Experience building or integrating LLM-powered applications (agent frameworks, tool calling, retrieval\/context, evals\/telemetry, prompt\/versioning). \u2022 Independent work ethic, flexibility, and resourcefulness. \u2022 Effective communication and collaboration skills. \u2022 Comfortable in a fast moving startup environment; excited to build independently.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Qualifications:\u00a0\u2022 Strong product instincts and UX taste\u2014especially around voice-first interaction design. \u2022 Experience with real-time systems (streaming audio, partial ASR, low-latency UIs, websockets\/gRPC). \u2022 Familiarity with desktop automation or system integrations (macOS\/Windows hooks, accessibility APIs, browser extensions, device services). \u2022 Experience with data visualization tools or libraries. \u2022 2 years of experience in a Software Engineering role and a Bachelor\u2019s degree or higher in a relevant field.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits<br \/>Competitive equity compensation at a seed stage startup<br \/>Company size: 15-30 people<br \/>Patrocinio de visados<br \/>3% 401k matching<br \/>Health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)<br \/>Compensation Range: $120K &#8211; $180K<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_promoted":"","_job_location":"California","_application":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/viewjob?jk=584b5ee81c29501e&tk=1jk5ltadqg6ov803&from=serp&vjs=3","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":"","_joinchat":[]},"job-types":[396],"class_list":{"0":"post-13995","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"pmpro-has-access","7":"job-type-visa-sponsorship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}