LiteLLM is the world's most popular AI Gateway, trusted by companies like Adobe, Netflix, and NASA. We're building the next generation of infrastructure for AI applications—and now we're building our second product.
We're looking for a Product Engineer who wants to work directly with the founders to figure out what developers need, ship quickly, and build products that thousands of engineering teams use every day.
About the Role
This isn't a traditional product management role, and it isn't a traditional software engineering role.
You'll spend your time talking to customers, understanding their problems, designing solutions, writing production code, and shipping features. One week you might build a new authentication flow, the next week you're redesigning an onboarding experience, integrating with a new provider, or launching an entirely new product.
If you enjoy owning a problem end-to-end—from idea to production—you'll thrive here.
Responsibilities
Build new product features from concept to production.
Work directly with customers to understand pain points and validate solutions.
Ship quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
Prototype new ideas and iterate based on user feedback.
Own major product areas and continuously improve them over time.
Design backend APIs and services using Python and FastAPI.
Build intuitive developer experiences across our API, dashboard, and CLI.
Collaborate directly with the founders on product direction and technical decisions.
Help define and build LiteLLM's second major product.
What We're Looking For
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Experience building production software, preferably with Python.
Comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend, frontend, infrastructure, APIs).
Strong product intuition and curiosity about how customers use software.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
High ownership—you naturally identify problems and solve them without waiting to be asked.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
Excited by shipping quickly and learning from real users.
Bonus Points
Experience at an early-stage startup.
Experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
Open source contributions.
You've built and launched your own product.
Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMs, or developer platforms.
Why Join LiteLLM?
Work directly with the founders every day.
Build products used by thousands of engineering teams around the world.
Own meaningful product decisions—not just implementation.
Move incredibly fast and see your work in production immediately.
Help define the future of AI infrastructure and developer tooling.
Competitive salary, equity, health, dental, and vision benefits.
About LiteLLM
LiteLLM is the world's most widely adopted AI Gateway. We provide a unified API for 100+ LLM providers along with routing, authentication, budgets, observability, and governance for production AI systems. Thousands of companies rely on LiteLLM to power AI in production.
If you love talking to users, building products, and shipping software that people actually use, we'd love to meet you.
LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format
We have raised $1.6M in Seed funding from top investors (Y Combinator, Gravity Fund and Pioneer Fund), generate $10M+ in ARR and growing exponentially, and are meaningfully profitable.
You can find more information on our website, Github and Technical Documentation.
Salary
$200,000 - $260,000
Location
San Francisco
Experience
0+ years
Total raised
$1.6M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.