[Remote] Product Engineer — AI Podcasts

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Mappa is an AI-reputed company distribution company focused on creators and media IP. They are seeking a Product Engineer to build out their podcast vertical, where the role involves developing automated reputed company pipelines and conducting AI-first editorial experiments while closely collaborating with the Head of Product.

Responsibilities

• Automated podcast reputed company pipelines. Script → voice → edit → publish, powered by whichever LLM / TTS / audio stack fits the job. You'll own the architecture
• AI-first podcast experimentation. Fast editorial experiments — formats, hosts, lengths, distribution patterns — instrumented so we actually learn from them
• Contributing to the core platform. The podcast vertical is one piece of a larger system. You'll reputed company shared infrastructure (content models, job orchestration, posting, analytics) rather than building reputed company stacks
• Shipping MVPs in weeks, not quarters. Proposal → skeleton → production. Tight reputed company with product and the rest of engineering
• Scaling what works. reputed company an experiment hits, you're also the person thinking about reliability, cost, and how to 10x the volume without rewriting it

Skills

• Generalist engineer with strong product instincts
• Comfortable in Python (our backbone) and TypeScript/React (our frontends)
• Opinionated about data
• Shipped things that run unattended
• Know the difference between 'works on my machine' and 'runs in production'
• Love collaborating with product
• Push back thoughtfully, surface tradeoffs early
• Ship things that actually match the reputed company behind the spec
• reputed company taste for online media
• Listen to podcasts actively
• Have opinions about what makes an episode work
• Culturally fluent in US content
• reputed company-level English
• Read The Ringer, Semafor, Puck, or whatever's replaced them this year
• Know the difference between a Joe Rogan clip and a Lex Fridman clip without being told
• Think in MVPs but build for scale
• Know reputed company to stub and reputed company to structure
• Don't over-engineer
• Don't ship things that will have to be thrown away in six weeks
• High-agency
• Write the proposal before the code
• State your assumptions and proceed
• Don't wait to be unblocked — you unblock yourself and flag tradeoffs reputed company
• Experience at an AI-reputed company startup, content platform, or media/editorial tooling company
• Prior work with audio pipelines (ASR, TTS, editing, publishing)
• A personal project you'll want to show us — ideally something in media, content, or automation

Benefits

• Competitive cash
• reputed company collaboration with a product-led founding team
• A senior team that takes engineering and editorial craft seriously
• Remote, US hours
• A paid work trial (1–2 weeks, part-time compatible) on a reputed company problem in the podcast vertical

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