Founding Product Engineer (zaimler)

Founding Product Engineer 

Full-Time - Engineering - SF Bay 

About Us

At zaimler, we are on a mission to bridge the gap between enterprise business knowledge and data, democratizing data discovery and curation to prepare organizations for the era of generative AI. Today's data tools are overly complex, poorly integrated, and siloed, forcing AI Practitioners and data scientists alike to spend more time wrestling with tools, relying on tribal knowledge, and navigating data lakes rather than doing meaningful data science work. The current landscape of data tools and processes is heavily manual and needs to catch up with the vast amount of data generated daily. With the advent of Gen AI and multi-modality, this challenge has only grown more complex and broken.

Backed by top tier VC funds we are committed to make enterprise data AI-ready faster, more reliable, and with a stronger foundation of factual semantic knowledge. This leads to more accurate models, superior outcomes, and better business results. Our team of seasoned data infrastructure and machine learning experts (running ML teams at LinkedIn, Visa, Truera, Hive and Branch) have spent the past two decades building bespoke systems to solve these very challenges.

About the job 

As the Founding Product Engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in defining and building out the product experience for the Graph Semantic Layer. Your focus is to shape the product from inception to launch, working closely with our initial design partners.

As a core member of the team your work will have a direct impact on product direction and design decisions, owning the product lifecycle from user research to the final user interface. This role is ideal for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in fast-paced, early-stage environments where you’ll wear multiple hats—leading both the technical implementation and contributing heavily to product strategy.

What you will do: 

• Build out the front end across the scope of our product

• Make decisions on what frontend tech to use and ensure consistency across surfaces ● Participate in user research and design choices 

• Visualize with product hat 

• Collaborate with engineers, scientists and product managers on new feature development. 

• Lead the development of complex features that enable organizations to interact with and get insights from Data 

Prior Experience: 

• 5+ yrs industry experience 

• Startup experience 

• Front-end development in the data products space

• Excellent programming skills in React/ Typescript or other relevant frameworks

• Experience with design and workflows 

• RESTful and API 

• Experience with data visualization libraries 

  Nice-To-Haves: 

• Experience with design 

• Experience with AI, LLM and Analytics 

• Experience with optimizing client-side performance 

• Familiarity with open source dashboard tools (Grafana) 

• Attention to detail and an eye for aesthetic design