Product Engineer

Job summary
Permanent contract
London
A few days at home
Salary: £60K to 90K
Skills & expertise
Prototyping
Collaboration and teamwork
Mechanical skills
Gather
Windows
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Zero Gravity
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Job description

  • Own the AI layer of Zero Gravity Tutor - prompting strategy, model selection, context architecture, retrieval design, and output quality across every subject and mode
  • Build and iterate on the systems that make Zero Gravity Tutor genuinely adaptive - coaching that responds to how each student thinks, learns, and prepares
  • Tackle the hard AI problems: moving from objective subjects into the subjective, solving for evaluation at scale, and maintaining quality as the product expands
  • Design and run rigorous evals to measure output quality, hallucination rates, and whether the product is actually helping students learn
  • Prototype new features hands-on - you'll write code, build POCs, and stress-test ideas before committing engineering resource
  • Own the product roadmap - sequencing bets, setting priorities, and keeping the team focused on what moves the needle for students
  • Define what success looks like and hold the team to it: clear metrics on every release, honest post-mortems when things don't land, and a bias toward learning fast
  • Act as the voice of the student and the teacher - run user research, synthesise feedback, and translate real-world insight into product decisions
  • Work closely with Growth and Commercial to design the loops that turn engaged users into a sustainable, scaling business
  • Shape the product experience for schools and the educators inside them - a largely unsolved problem, and one Zero Gravity is well-placed to own
  • Work directly with partner schools and teachers to validate what we're building, gather the insight that shapes the roadmap, and earn the trust that unlocks growth
  • Help define how Zero Gravity Tutor is packaged and positioned for institutional buyers - working with the commercial team to turn product value into revenue
  • Champion a culture of curiosity, testing, and learning - challenge assumptions, seek new ideas, and help raise the bar for product excellence
  • Collaborate closely with the engineering squad - set clear priorities, unblock decisions, and keep pace high
  • Contribute to Zero Gravity's wider AI strategy, sharing what works in Zero Gravity Tutor across the organisation

  • 🏃‍♀️ | Monthly Socials: Join us for fun team socials, completely on-the-house. Quarterly, we go big with sports days, BBQs, and more
  • 💻 | Company MacBook: Get the latest Apple gear to stay ahead of the game
  • 💂‍♀️ | Central London Office: Work from our beautiful Zero Gravity HQ in Barbican/Old Street, while enjoying flexible WFH options
  • 📈 | Share options: Own a piece of Zero Gravity with our 'Zero Gravity For All' options scheme
  • 🎄 | Christmas Shutdown: Enjoy 3 extra festive days off, plus 25 days of annual leave and 8 bank holidays
  • 💳 | Zero Gravity Card: £500 annually to spend on your personal development with your very own Zero Gravity Card
  • 🩺 | Private Healthcare: Extensive private health insurance, including dental, mental health support, and gym discounts

Preferred experience

  • Proven track record of building AI-powered products - not just bolting a chatbot on, but thinking hard about prompting architecture, model behaviour, and what genuinely good AI UX looks like
  • Technically hands-on: comfortable enough with code to prototype ideas, run evals, and debug model outputs using AI coding tools. You don't need to be a software engineer, but you should be able to move fast without waiting for one and move towards contributing to the codebase (Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Postgres, and AWS)
  • Deep understanding of LLM fundamentals - context windows, RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning trade-offs, and how to measure model quality rigorously
  • Strong product instinct with experience owning end-to-end product lifecycles - from discovery and definition through to delivery and iteration - across B2C and/or B2B contexts
  • Data-driven decision-maker: comfortable with analytics tools (e.g. Metabase, Mixpanel, Google Analytics) and able to define what success looks like before a single line of code is written
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - able to align engineers, commercial teams, and a founder-CEO behind a clear product direction without a lot of process
  • Passionate about impact: you care about outcomes, not outputs, and you want the product you build to genuinely change life chances

Nice to have:

  • Experience in EdTech, consumer subscription apps, or B2B SaaS with an end-user product component
  • Familiarity with UK education - exam boards, curriculum structure, how schools buy and adopt software
  • Experience taking a product from early traction to scale - you've navigated the messy middle and know what it takes
  • Have worked alongside a Growth team and understand how product and growth interlock
  • Have worked in a company at the 20–50 person stage, where everyone does more than their job title suggests

Recruitment process

  • Apply via WTTJ
  • Initial 30 minute interview
  • Technical round to assess how you approach your work
  • Values interview with Founder CEO and other team

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