Blackboard is hiring an AI Product Engineer to join a small team building a new AI-native product from the ground up. In this role, you will act as an architect, reviewer, and product thinker, directing AI development agents and owning features completely from data pipeline to user interface.

What You'll Do

Build student-facing product interfaces and real-time features that surface AI intelligence.
Develop responsive, performant UI built on a shared component library.
Create API routes and backend services connecting UI to intelligence and data layers.
Integrate AI orchestration: streaming responses, agent outputs, structured recommendations.
Build event-driven ingestion pipelines translating platform activity into structured signals.
Design storage architecture and schema for persistent user state.
Manage deployment infrastructure, CI/CD, and environment management.
Implement data access controls and audit logging for security and compliance.
Own features end-to-end from spec to production including testing, monitoring, and iteration.
Use AI-assisted development tooling to maintain high output and code quality.
Contribute to shared component libraries and codebase standards.
Stay current with the AI ecosystem.

What We're Looking For

You work natively with AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code as your actual development workflow.
You have shipped products to real users with full-stack accountability.
You are comfortable across the stack: React, Next.js, and TypeScript on frontend; Node.js or Python on backend; PostgreSQL for data.
You have integrated LLM APIs or built AI-powered features in production.
You have strong product instincts to notice and fix UX issues.
You can move fast, make good decisions under ambiguity, and improve the codebase.
Fluency in written and spoken English.