Software Engineer, AI Product Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco)$163.8k - $306kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
AI Product Engineer role at Retool focused on shipping developer-facing AI features across product and infrastructure, leveraging LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI tooling within a TypeScript/Node.js/React stack.
Responsibilities
- Build generative UIs that let users create real apps from natural language
- Improve the performance, observability, and safety of our internal model architecture
- Extend our AI evaluation systems to support smarter ranking, feedback loops, and product metrics
- Develop patterns for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), few-shot prompting, and agentic architecture
- Contribute to building internal tools that help us accelerate iteration on AI features and workflows
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- A track record of building and shipping real product—not just models or papers
- Experience working with LLMs and modern techniques (RAG, CoT, few-shot, embeddings, etc.)
- An eye for product: you care how features work and how they feel
- Familiarity with vector databases, prompt orchestration tools, and evaluation techniques
- A pragmatic mindset about what’s scalable and maintainable in production
- Strong opinions, weakly held—you move quickly but bring others along
- Bonus: experience building AI features for developer tools or productivity software
Skills
Required:TypeScriptNode.jsReactLLMs / AI technologies (RAG, CoT, embeddings)Vector databases
Benefits
- Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- Pay and benefits are subject to change...
- Hybrid work location available
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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