Job title: Product Engineer
Location: London; full in-office working as default
Start date: ASAP
Reports to: CTO
Compensation: BASE : £80,000 - £120,000
EQUITY : £80,000 - £120,000
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Cosine at a glanceAt Cosine, we’re building autonomous AI engineers that plan, write, and ship code inside real development workflows.
Cosine is designed for on-premise and virtual private cloud (VPC) deployments, including fully air-gapped environments. We build our agent tooling entirely in-house and post-train open-source models to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade coding performance in security-critical settings.
In 2024, Cosine achieved a 72% score on OpenAI’s SWE-Lancer benchmark, placing us among the strongest real-world software-engineering AI systems evaluated.
YC-backed and well-funded, Cosine was founded by experienced operators focused on building dependable, production-grade AI.
This role is based in our Hoxton office, five days a week, because close collaboration, fast feedback, and shared context matter for the problems we’re solving.
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The role
A Product Engineer at Cosine works closely across research, engineering, product, and design to turn advanced AI capabilities into intuitive, reliable tools for developers.
You will be responsible for building and evolving Cosine’s user-facing product surfaces, including IDE extensions or dedicated apps and web applications that expose the power of our models through well-designed workflows and interfaces. Your work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and research, translating emerging model capabilities into concrete experiences developers can use every day.
We focus on rapid product iteration without compromising quality. This means building systems that are performant, observable, and robust, while remaining flexible enough to evolve alongside fast-moving research and user needs. You will help define how developers interact with Cosine, from first use through advanced, production-grade workflows.
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Your MissionDeliver a scalable, high-quality Cosine product experience by building IDE and web application interfaces and integrations that expose the power of our models in intuitive, reliable ways.
Responsibilities
Build end-user products (editor extensions and web applications and platform capabilities) that integrate with the Cosine platform APIs
Enable developers to use advanced language models to augment their workflows and problem-solving capabilities
Collaborate closely research to explore and validate new product experiences and capabilities
Translate emerging model capabilities into concrete, user-facing features
Maintain a high bar for performance, reliability, and usability across platforms
Be opinionated about and bring your own ideas to the table, we’re building for engineers, as an engineer you have a say in what you want to use.
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Frontend & Application Development
Experience building reactive, highly interactive applications (React, Svelte, Vue)
Experience with cli application development or local software development is a plus
Backend & Systems
Comfortable with backend development
Experience designing and consuming REST APIs
Developer Experience
Experience working with developer tooling
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
Experience with containerization
Programming Languages
Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks
Knowledge of Node.js, Python, and Go is a plus
Tooling & Infrastructure
Git, Docker, Webpack, npm
Monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog)
Feature flagging systems
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You Might Thrive in This Role If You:Have 5+ years of experience building production-grade software, with a strong emphasis on user-facing developer tools.
Have shipped and maintained complex frontend or full-stack applications used by technical users.
Are comfortable building highly interactive web or IDE-based experiences using modern frameworks (e.g. React, TypeScript).
Have experience designing and consuming APIs, and understand how frontend and backend systems evolve together.
Enjoy working close to the product surface, translating ambiguous ideas and model capabilities into intuitive developer workflows.
Care deeply about developer experience, performance, and reliability—not just functionality.
Are comfortable iterating quickly, running experiments, and refining products based on real user feedback.
Can operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and incomplete information.
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Cosine is an equal opportunity employer.
We value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and ways of thinking, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful workplace.
We encourage applications from anyone who meets the role requirements, even if you don’t meet every single qualification. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the hiring process, we’re happy to discuss them.
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Compensation, Benefits & Ways of Working
We’re an in-office team, five days a week, by design. We believe the work we’re doing benefits from being together, collaborating closely, and building shared context.
What you can expect:
Competitive salary, benchmarked to the market
Equity / share options, so you share in the upside you help create
30 days’ holiday + bank holidays
Genuine 9–5 working hours — we don’t expect late nights or weekend work
Work hard in the office, collaborate closely, and switch off properly
Dog-friendly office — bring your dog to work
Daily lunch provided
Monthly team breakfasts
Monthly socials
Pension
High-quality equipment to do your best work
We care about focus, sustainability, and doing great work — not performative overwork. We value people who show up, contribute thoughtfully, collaborate well with their colleagues, and then go home.
This role won’t suit everyone. But if you want structure, clarity, strong collaboration, and a team that takes both the work and work-life balance seriously, it’s a great place to be.
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Agency & Data Protection Notice
To comply with UK GDPR and our internal data-protection and equal-opportunity obligations, we only accept candidate applications and agency submissions via our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). This ensures appropriate privacy notices, lawful processing, auditability, and consistent retention controls.
Any CVs or candidate details received outside the ATS (including via email, Slack, or direct message) will be treated as unsolicited, will not be considered as part of the recruitment process, and will not give rise to any fee or payment obligation.