Internal AI Product Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design and implementation of AI-driven internal tools and systems that empower refurbed to function as an AI-native organization as part of our AI & Tech Transformation initiative.

• Serve as a product-focused senior back-end engineer for internal AI initiatives across teams, identifying opportunities, architecting solutions, and directly developing back-end services and integrations that incorporate AI and automation into employee workflows.

• Collaborate closely with the Head of Internal Technology & AI on strategy, planning, and execution while providing technical guidance to teams, working in tandem with the core platform Engineering for support.

• Evaluate success in this role through productivity enhancements, enabling new capabilities, and the adoption of AI tools and innovative working methods throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a senior/staff back-end engineer with direct involvement in building production systems using Go, Python, or similar languages; proficient in designing for scalability, reliability, and cost on GCP.

• Experience in developing AI/LLM-powered systems for production—from prototyping with model APIs to deployment, observability, and iteration.

• Strong product instincts in the traditional PM context—has managed a product area from start to finish, including discovery, PRDs, roadmaps, success metrics, and measurable outcomes; not just 'utilized AI tools as a back-end engineer.'

• Effective stakeholder management with senior leaders and departmental teams; capable of aligning individuals around trade-offs and facilitating cross-functional delivery.

• Comfortable balancing individual contributor engineering tasks with technical leadership: establishing direction, reviewing designs, and mentoring others while maintaining hands-on proficiency.

• Extensive, practical knowledge of modern AI tools and active participation in the rapidly evolving ecosystem—has significant experience with various coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), understands how to structure, build, and implement skills/plugins/marketplaces, can design and integrate MCPs, and works adeptly with subagents and agent harnesses; able to make informed decisions on build vs. buy options.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to foster your growth, whether through courses, conferences, or other educational opportunities that matter to you.

• Partner with Likeminded, providing private sessions with experts for your personal development and mental well-being.

• Regularly host internal workshops, enabling our teams to further enhance their skills in various domains and improve collaboration across departments.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Fully remote environment with the option to work from a beautiful office in Vienna.