# Product Engineer at item

- Company: item (YC F25)
- What the company does: The AI-Native CRM that works for you. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://item.app
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/item/jobs/xD9P6r7-product-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/item-product-engineer/

## About the role

You'll build the core of what makes item work and define how companies will run in an agent-first world. 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering