Founding Product Engineer (Full-stack) - Gurgaon (Must Be A Founding Or Early Employee First 5 To 10 Employee ID)

About this role

My Client's insight is that AI agents now handle infrastructure and computer vision work well, but product taste cannot be automated. This is a full-stack product role where code is the medium: you own a new product inside the factory OS from the blank-page idea through shipped outcome, sitting with plant heads and line supervisors, deciding what to build, and getting working versions into users’ hands in days. You will work directly with the founder and define what done means, with no spec handed to you and no playbook to follow. This role is in person at Client's Gurgaon office Monday to Saturday, 9am to 10pm (996 schedule), as a full-time independent contractor engagement.

What You’ll Own

• Own a new product end to end, from initial idea and discovery through design, build, and measured outcome on the factory floor.

• Run discovery with plant heads and line supervisors, visit plants, and watch real users interact with what you shipped.

• Decide what to build, what to cut, and what done means, and write it up so the team can act on it.

• Own the UX and visual polish of factory-facing surfaces, holding a higher bar than what factory software typically achieves.

• Build full-stack features using coding agents running in parallel on frontier models, shipping working versions to users within days.

• Iterate rapidly based on direct user feedback, production data, and observed usage on active factory floors.

Requirements

• Founding or early employee (first 5 to 10) at Series A/B-caliber startup

• Full-stack shipping track record, strongest on product surface

• AI-native: coding agents used daily in parallel

• 3-9 years YOE (track record of early-stage shipping matters more than tenure)

• Gurgaon in-person, Monday to Saturday (996 schedule)

• End-to-end product ownership including customer discovery

• Product taste: notices bad spacing, confusing flows, and features nobody asked for, and fixes them unprompted

• Writes clear specs and explains hard trade-offs in a few sentences for a non-technical audience

Green Flags to consider for this role:

• Took a product from zero to one themselves (real side projects count)

• Enjoys customer conversations and has done discovery with non-technical users

• Strong portfolio of shipped, polished product surfaces

Red Flags

• Joined a startup as employee 14 or later with no early-seat experience

• Prefers backend systems, infrastructure, or model training over product surfaces

• Prefers to be handed a spec rather than write one

Benefits & perks

• Unlimited frontier-model token spend

• Full product autonomy from day one

• Work on live factory floors from day one

My Client Company Info:

• Company Size: 11-50
• Funding Stage: Seed
• Founding Year: 2024