# Product Engineer at primitive

- Company: primitive (YC P26)
- What the company does: communication for agents. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://primitive.dev
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/primitive/jobs/RVWGWpZ-product-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primitive-product-engineer/

## About the role

Own the product through which non-technical teams create and operate agents. We let someone define a business outcome, deploy an agent, and improve it without ever seeing the engineering underneath. This role owns that abstraction across product, design, frontend, and backend.

## What they're looking for

- You have built and shipped polished user-facing products end to end
- You are an excellent frontend engineer and can work across the backend when needed
- You can turn complicated systems and ambiguous customer needs into simple software

Tags: Engineering