Product Engineer, AI

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

📋 Description

• Define and develop AI products within Roper Technologies' diverse portfolio of leading vertical software businesses.

• Collaborate with leadership from portfolio companies to refine AI product concepts, roadmaps, and product strategies.

• Acquire knowledge of new business domains and pinpoint areas where AI significantly enhances customer value.

• Formulate a well-supported viewpoint on what to create, what to avoid, and the rationale for timing.

• Assess opportunities based on feasibility, differentiation, and customer willingness to pay.

• Engage directly with customers to anchor product decisions in authentic workflows.

• Create working prototypes and conduct experiments to verify feasibility.

• Design evaluations that differentiate between compelling demonstrations and viable products.

• Transition from concept to operational systems utilizing AI-assisted development.

• Create shared technologies and products that amplify leverage across various Roper businesses.

• Determine when capabilities should be developed centrally or locally.

• Promote the adoption of shared platforms and methodologies among engineering teams in portfolio companies.

• Document successful strategies into reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and playbooks.

• Deliver AI products that customers embrace, can be monetized, and that aid in organic growth.

• Define and monitor metrics for adoption, retention, expansion, and customer impact.

• Integrate production usage insights back into the product roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline such as computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics.

• Extensive technical expertise in AI and machine learning, including contemporary LLM-based and agentic systems.

• Previous experience in deploying AI products at scale in a production environment.

• Strong product intuition and aesthetic judgment, with clear opinions on what constitutes quality software.

• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.

• Proven ability to rapidly and independently prototype effective solutions.

• Capacity to swiftly learn unfamiliar business domains and develop a clear vision of what to create.

• Openness to directly collaborate with customers and teams from portfolio companies.

• Strong sense of ownership, resilience in the face of unsuccessful experiments, and a high level of internal motivation.

• Ability to operate autonomously in a fluid environment.

• Experience in vertical SaaS or enterprise software within regulated or operationally complex industries.

• Proficiency with agent frameworks, orchestration patterns, retrieval systems, and evaluation methodologies.

• Full-stack capabilities ranging from model behavior to customer-facing interfaces.

• Experience collaborating across multiple business units or being part of a central strike team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Remote work opportunities.

• Chance to work across various sectors including insurance, healthcare, energy, education, and others.

• A centralized AI team with minimal overhead and the ability to make swift decisions.

• Opportunity to create significant impact and contribute to organic growth.