AI Product Engineer
PostHog San Francisco
AI Product Engineer

PostHog builds every product companies need to run their business—from day one to IPO and beyond. We are the operating system for software builders.

We began with open-source product analytics, launching out of Y Combinator’s W20 cohort. Since then, we’ve shipped over a dozen products, including:

  • Built-in Data Warehouse – Query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

  • Customer Data Platform – Easily send your data wherever you need it.

  • PostHog AI – An AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, finds session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on our roadmap: CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support tools. When we say every product companies need to run their business, we mean it.

We are:

  • Product-led: 100,000+ companies have installed PostHog, mostly through word-of-mouth.

  • Default alive: Revenue grows ~10% MoM; we raise funds to accelerate growth, not survive.

  • Well-funded: $100M+ raised from top global investors, enabling a long, ambitious journey.

Our culture emphasizes shipping fast, hiring exceptional talent, and embracing creativity and “weirdness.”

Why Work Here?

  • Transparency: Public handbook shares roadmap, pay, strategy, and operations. Internally, revenue, board notes, and fundraising plans are fully visible.

  • Autonomy: You choose what to work on based on impact and interest. Engineers lead product teams and make decisions.

  • Shipping Fast: Small, autonomous teams ship end-to-end products faster than larger companies.

  • Time for Building: Meetings are minimized. Tuesdays & Thursdays are meeting-free. Async communication (PRs > Issues > Slack) is the default.

  • Ambition & Fun: Solve big problems, experiment boldly, and embrace creativity.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re seeking a Full-Stack Engineer who can leverage LLMs and AI to make PostHog 10x more powerful. You should have experience building agentic AI applications and understand that it’s more than just hitting an API with a prompt.

You’ll thrive if you:

  • Ship end-to-end AI applications (backend to frontend UX)

  • Collaborate across teams and move quickly

  • Think like a product builder, prioritizing users and outcomes

Experience in autonomous agents, workflow automation, or AI copilots is a plus, but you’ll have the freedom to build from scratch with real-world impact.

What Makes This Role Unique

  • Impact from Day One: Build AI agents on real customer data, not demos.

  • Data Advantage: PostHog collects analytics, sessions, events, and feature flags—giving your AI rich context.

  • Agents That Matter: Embed AI into engineering workflows or create observability and analytics layers for agents.

  • Build in the Open: Receive feedback from one of the largest open-source product engineering communities.

Responsibilities

  • Own products and features end-to-end: ideation, MVP testing, iteration, and success tracking

  • Collaborate with design when needed, using our design system to ship polished UX

  • Implement AI features with PostHog AI, including observability and evaluation tools

  • Engage with users frequently, iterating based on real feedback

  • Participate in support rotations, resolving customer issues in real-time

  • Document features in collaboration with our content team

Requirements

  • Full-stack experience (Python, React, or similar; big data experience a plus)

  • Prior experience with AI workflow automation, copilots, or autonomous agents

  • Ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions, ship quickly, and iterate

  • Strong UX sense and product polish

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have:

  • Experience at a high-growth SaaS company

  • Expertise in Django and/or TypeScript-based React

  • Experience building AI-native products or integrating AI into existing software

If you have a disability, please let us know—we’re happy to accommodate your interview process.

Apply Now: https://posthog.com/careers

PostHog
About Company

PostHog is a product-led, open-source analytics and software platform that builds every tool companies need to run their business—from day one to IPO and beyond. Founded out of Y Combinator’s W20 cohort, PostHog provides a full suite of products including analytics, a customer data platform, and AI-powered insights via PostHog AI. With over 100,000 companies using its tools, PostHog combines transparency, autonomy, and rapid shipping to help software teams innovate, experiment, and deliver real impact. 

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