If you’re passionate about building innovative products and solving real-world technical challenges, Phenom is looking for a Product Development Engineer to join its team in Horsham. This is a great opportunity for an engineering professional to work on product development, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to solutions that make a real impact.
Job Overview
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Company Name | Phenom |
| Role | Product Development Engineer |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field |
| Job Location | Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Salary | $80,000 – $90,000 per year |
| Work Type | On-site |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Job Level | Mid-level |
| Industry | Technology / HR Tech |
Job Description
We are looking for a Product Development Engineer (AI-Native) who takes ideas and customer needs and turns them into working, validated product features and agentic capabilities — owning them from first prototype to production. Here, everyone wears multiple hats: the same person who builds a feature also ships it, supports the people using it, and debugs issues directly. You own outcomes end-to-end, not a narrow slice.
What You’ll Do
- Build innovative products on the Phenom platform — prototype fast, then harden what proves valuable into something customers can rely on.
- Take ideas to production — design, build, and validate features end-to-end, then keep improving them after they ship.
- Build and improve reusable agentic skills — packaged, versioned capabilities anyone in engineering can compose and re-run, so the next build starts from a proven asset, not a blank page.
- Practice AI-assisted, increasingly agentic engineering — drive PRs with coding agents and your own custom skills, and wire each PR to also update the observability it depends on.
- Run a controlled debugging loop — work from logs, traces, and prior incidents to find and fix root causes quickly.
- Own delivery to customers — deployment gates and hypercare, partnering with reliability engineers on deep platform issues.
- Keep rich context for agents — maintain the structured, per-customer context that every agent and skill draws on before it acts.
- Respect the guardrails — analysis is separated from action, high-risk changes require human approval, and every decision is logged for audit.
What You’ve Done
- 0-2 years of software development experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Strong fundamentals and critical thinking — AI raises the bar on judgment, it doesn’t replace it.
- Comfortable across the stack and building with modern AI coding tools and agents.
- Customer empathy — you can sit with a customer, ask the right questions, and decide which problems are worth solving.
- End-to-end ownership — you finish what you start and keep improving it.
- Adaptable — eager to adopt new tools and reinvent your workflow as the tooling changes (often weekly).
- A strong communicator who aligns quickly with colleagues and customers.
- You thrive on variety — building, debugging, shipping, and customer calls in the same week.
- Bonus: experience building AI / agent products, workflow orchestration, observability, or building agent workflows on an Agent SDK.
Technical Skills
- Programming proficiency — write clean, maintainable code in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, or Go).
- Computer science foundations — strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, complexity (Big-O), and decomposing problems into clean, testable components.
- Software design principles — object-oriented and functional concepts, clean-code practices, and sensible code and API design.
- Version control & collaboration — day-to-day fluency with Git, branches, pull requests, and code review.
- APIs & databases — working knowledge of REST APIs and JSON, plus basic SQL and data modeling with relational and/or NoSQL stores.
- Testing & debugging — writing unit and integration tests and diagnosing issues methodically from logs, traces, and stack traces.
- Command line & cloud (a plus) — comfort in a Unix / Linux shell, with exposure to a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD concepts.
- AI tooling (a plus) — hands-on with modern AI coding assistants and familiarity with LLM or agent concepts.
Selection Process
- Application submission
- Resume screening
- Recruiter/HR interview
- Technical interview
- Hiring manager interview
- Final selection and offer
How to Apply
- Visit the Phenom careers page.
- Search for Product Development Engineer – Horsham.
- Review the job requirements and responsibilities.
- Submit your updated resume and application.
- Complete the interview process if shortlisted.
- Await the final hiring decision.
