Company Description We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant g…
Company Description We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant g…
Company Description We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant g…
Company Description We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant g…
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Full-time
Posted 52d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end development of an AI-first mobile MVP focused on personal reflection and emotional clarity. This includes building the UI, designing the AI interaction layer, and maintaining a lightweight backend.
Requirements
Requires proven experience in building mobile applications with React Native/Expo and hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering. Candidates must have a strong product mindset and C1 level English proficiency.
Full job description
Company Description
We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work!
Job Description
We are currently looking for a skilled AI Product Engineer to join our dynamic team and collaborate closely with an innovative US-based startup building an AI-first mobile experience.
As part of an early-stage product, the AI Product Engineer will lead the development of a mobile MVP designed to foster personal reflection, self-awareness, and emotional clarity. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role focused on taking a clear product vision and turning it into a thoughtful, functional, and emotionally intelligent application.
You will play a key role in shaping both the product experience and the AI interaction layer, ensuring that outputs feel perceptive, grounded, and genuinely useful, rather than generic or assistant-like. This role contributes directly to the client’s mission of creating a calm, reflective digital space that feels meaningful and human.
Qualifications
Expectations - the experience you need
Proven experience building mobile applications (React Native, Expo preferred)
Strong product mindset with experience building 0 → 1 products
Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI or similar)
Deep understanding of:
prompt design and iteration
structured outputs
conversational flows and state management
Ability to design AI interactions that feel intentional, specific, and non-generic
Experience shipping production-ready applications and testing on real devices
Strong sense of product quality, including UX, tone, and emotional sensitivity
Ability to move quickly while maintaining focus and avoiding overengineering
English proficiency (C1 level or higher), both written and spoken, with strong communication skills
Nice to have:
Experience building AI-first products
Familiarity with backend tools such as Supabase or Firebase
Experience with animations (e.g., Reanimated) or AI-assisted design workflows
Exposure to AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)
Swift or alternative mobile frameworks experience
What you will do
Lead the end-to-end development of the MVP mobile app (iOS-first)
Build core product flows:
Design and implement a clean, minimal, emotionally-aware UI
Develop a structured AI interaction layer (beyond simple chat interfaces): design and refine prompts, control tone and response quality, manage memory and conversational state.
Ensure outputs are thoughtful, perceptive, and context-aware
Build and maintain a lightweight backend (e.g., Supabase): authentication, session and memory storage, content saving systems (“What stays”)
Implement subtle interaction elements (motion, pacing, transitions) focused on product feel
Test across real devices and prepare releases (e.g., TestFlight)
Iterate quickly based on product feedback while maintaining clarity and restraint
This is a 8-12 weeks project with a possibility of extension.
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Related keywords
AI Product EngineerReact NativeExpoLLMOpenAIPrompt EngineeringStructured OutputsSupabaseFirebaseReanimatedSwiftiOSMVPUXConversational AIMobile Development
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond.
For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery.
A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.
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