Product Engineer (AI-Native Builder)

Traditional engineering roles hand you a task and ask you to implement it. This one hands you a problem and a fleet of AI agents and asks you to ship the solution. The Product Engineer / Builder is a Staff/Principal level individual contributor role, for someone who takes a defined problem and owns the solution end to end. You understand the customer and the problem, then design, build, and ship working software, using AI agents as your primary means of turning direction into product. You combine deep engineering craft with genuine product instinct, and act as a force multiplier rather than a single pair of hands.

Given a problem to solve, you shape the approach and use AI to bring it to life by directing several AI agents in parallel and rigorously reviewing what they produce. An idea sketched in the morning can be a functional prototype by lunch and a working product by the end of the week. You think like a product manager, care like a designer, and build like an engineer. You bring taste and judgment to every decision: it's your responsibility to know what to build, what not to build, and to prove — through evals, testing, and review — that AI-generated work is reliable enough to ship. You measure success in customer and business outcomes, not tasks completed.

Build rapidly by composing solutions from the best available tools, whether internal or external, and apply your own innovation where it matters most. As Diligent accelerates its transformation into an AI-native organization, you set the standard for what AI-native engineering looks like in a regulated, security- and compliance-conscious environment. You establish the patterns, prompts, evals, and guardrails that colleagues reuse, and you raise the leverage of every team you touch.

Apply if you…

• Have a track record of driving complex products end to end — building and shipping reliable, production-grade software with visible impact
• Have strong full-stack engineering fundamentals and the judgment and experience to make sound architectural calls
• Have an integrator's mindset: you see how the pieces fit together, favor proven building blocks over reinventing them, and design so your work compounds across teams
• Are genuinely fluent with modern AI tools and agents, including running several agents in parallel and rigorously reviewing what they produce

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be done differently, both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, a generous time off policy and wellness programs.
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us.

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.