Rhizome AI: Product Engineer (Contractor)
Role highlights
30–60 USD
Contract
Permanent
Independent
Remote
This role requires a Product Engineer with over 4 years of software engineering experience, proficient in full-stack development with a strong focus on enhancing user experience and expanding platform capabilities. The candidate must have solid expertise in Next.js (Pages Router), React, and Tailwind CSS for front-end development, alongside backend skills in Python and FastAPI. Experience with PostgreSQL for database management and deployment on Digital Ocean is essential. The position involves improving data ingestion pipelines, integrating new datasets to broaden regulatory coverage, and building internal applications to support domain experts in tuning AI-driven agentic capabilities. Candidates should demonstrate a high ownership mindset, the ability to work independently in a fully remote, asynchronous environment, and collaborate with minimal meetings. The role also offers opportunities to engage directly with customers and contribute to AI engineering projects. A commitment to working at least 5 hours overlapping Eastern Time (GMT-5) and willingness to travel for periodic offsite meetings is required. The work culture emphasizes rapid shipping, iterative development, and high autonomy. This contractor position starts at 20 hours per week with potential to increase, offering compensation between $30 and $60 per hour depending on experience. A bachelor's degree and substantial professional experience underpin the qualifications needed to succeed in this role, which is based in New York but fully remote.
About the role
Rhizome AI: Product Engineer (Contractor)
Headquarters: New York, NY
URL: http://rhizomeai.com
Role Summary
As a Product Engineer, you'll work across our full stack to improve user experience and expand our platform's capabilities. Your work will directly impact how life science companies navigate regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Enhance UI/UX across the platform
- Integrate new datasets to expand regulatory coverage
- Improve data ingestion pipelines
- Build internal apps to help domain experts tune agentic capabilities
- Opportunity to engage directly with customers (if interested)
- Opportunity to work on AI engineering projects (if interested)
Tech Stack
- Next.js (Pages Router)
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- PostgreSQL
- Digital Ocean
- Python + FastAPI
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Strong experience with the listed tech stack
- High ownership mindset and ability to work independently
- 5 hours of overlap with GMT-5 (Eastern Time) required
- Fully remote
- Able and willing to travel for a 1 week offsite every 1-3 months
Work Culture
- Async, written-first communication with minimal meetings
- Ship quickly and iterate
- High autonomy and trust
Compensation & Commitment
- $30 - $60/hour depending on experience
- Initially 20 hours/week with potential to scale to 40 hours/week
- Contractor position
How to Apply
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