# Product Engineer

What you’ll do You'll build the core of what makes item work and define how companies will run in an agent-first world. Day to day, that looks like: Inventing new patterns for how humans and agents work together Architecting systems for AI to run real business processes at scale Experimenting fast with new models, tools, and approaches as the space evolves Talking directly to customers, to translate their problems into features The problems are genuinely unsolved: how should agents operate in the workplace? How do you make them reliable, trustworthy, useful? How do they interface with humans in a way that feels natural? What does agent to agent collaboration look like across businesses? We're running 100k+ agentic tasks per month and figuring this out every day. Who this role is for This role is for engineers who want to set the engineering foundation, not just inherit one. You're independent. You don't wait around for specs or permission. You see what needs to happen and you make it happen. You care about craft. The details matter to you across the whole stack, from data models to how a button feels when you click it. You ship work you're actually proud of and have a track record

- **Id**: 1262455
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/item-product-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T20:57:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:19:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3096
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: CRM Software, AI Agents

## Company

- **Id**: 3779660
- **Name**: item
- **Domain**: item.app
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/item-4>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vercel AI SDK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T20:57:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.383
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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