Agentic Product Engineer (YC-backed)

Agentic Product Manager

We're not looking for someone to manage a backlog. We're looking for a builder — someone who can take an ambiguous problem, design an agentic solution, get hands-on to build it, and own the outcome from zero to production.

You should be equally comfortable thinking through the product experience, designing an agentic workflow and system architecture, and opening up your IDE to prototype it yourself.

If you've built AI agents, automated complex workflows, or started something from scratch before — even if it didn't work out — we want to hear from you.

What you'll own

• Design and ship agentic products end-to-end — from problem definition and workflow design to prototyping, production, and iteration
• Architect agentic systems — agents, tools, context, memory, state, orchestration, human-in-the-loop, and failure handling
• Get hands-on and build — use code, APIs, AI coding tools, and automation platforms to rapidly prototype and validate ideas
• Improve agent reliability — identify failure modes, build evaluations, and optimize for quality, latency, and cost
• Own product outcomes — work directly with founders and engineers to prioritize and ship what drives customer and business impact

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience building agentic workflows or AI-native products — not just defining requirements for them
• Strong technical foundation — you understand APIs, databases, backend systems, asynchronous workflows, and system architecture
• You can build — you don't need to be a career software engineer, but you should be able to prototype real working systems yourself
• Fluent with modern AI development — context engineering, tool/function calling, agent orchestration, memory, retrieval, evaluations, and observability
• Fluent with AI coding tools — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and similar tools
• Strong systems and product thinking — you understand both how the system should work and why it should exist
• High agency and ownership — you investigate, make decisions, build, ship, measure, and iterate

We care much more about what you've actually built and how you think than whether your previous title was Product Manager, Engineer, or Founder.

Why InstaAgent

• YC-backed, early stage — what you build ships and matters immediately
• Agentic workflows are core to the product, not an AI feature bolted on top
• Small team, high trust, direct access to founders
• Real ownership over product direction, architecture, and execution
• Fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment where good ideas can go from conversation to production quickly