Full-Time

Senior Product Engineer

Workhelix

Workhelix

11-50 employees

Data-driven upskilling platform for workplaces

Compensation Overview

$150k - $224k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
FastAPI
Python
React.js
SQL
Postgres
Observability
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex technical projects end-to-end
  • Strong full-stack development experience. Comfort with Python and React is strongly preferred, but we're open to exceptional engineers from other object-oriented programming backgrounds who can demonstrate the ability to ramp quickly
  • Working knowledge of SQL. You're comfortable writing queries, understanding relational data, and reasoning about how data moves through a system. Experience with schema design and data pipelines is a plus
  • Experience building scalable, secure, production-grade SaaS applications
  • Deep understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native development
  • A track record of raising the bar for code quality through your own work and through thoughtful code and design reviews
  • Strong product judgment. You care about what the user actually experiences and will question a requirement that doesn't feel right rather than simply building what's written
  • A systems mindset. You naturally zoom out and notice when something upstream or downstream of your own work is drifting out of sync
  • A bias toward pragmatic delivery. You scope before you dive in, break work into shippable increments, and deliver at the pace a fast-moving company requires without over-engineering
  • Strong collaborative instincts and excellent communication. You bring people into conversations early, communicate clearly in both written and verbal settings, and work effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and Customer Success
  • Low ego, high standards. You care more about the quality of the outcome than who gets credit, and you welcome feedback without becoming defensive
  • Genuine intellectual curiosity. You're energized rather than destabilized when priorities shift, and you naturally go deep on problems because you genuinely enjoy understanding how things work
Responsibilities
  • Own the technical delivery of key product initiatives across our Python (FastAPI), React, and Postgres stack
  • Partner closely with the Head of Engineering and Chief Product & Technology Officer to translate product vision into scalable technical solutions
  • Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and design sessions, offering the kind of technical judgment that raises the quality bar for the whole team
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and customer value
  • Build production software as a core individual contributor, setting a high technical standard through your own work
  • Improve engineering practices around testing, observability, deployment, code quality, and operational excellence
  • Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and the Forward-Deployed Team to solve complex customer problems
  • Help shape the evolution of our platform by identifying opportunities to simplify systems, improve developer experience, and reduce technical debt
  • Contribute to hiring by helping assess and welcome exceptional engineers who strengthen both our technical capabilities and our culture
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with AWS and modern deployment practices, including CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and infrastructure management
  • Experience building data-intensive products or analytics platforms
  • Familiarity with experimentation, statistics, or machine learning concepts
  • Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows
  • Experience working in an early-stage, high-growth SaaS startup
  • Experience building products for enterprise customers with complex technical environments

WorkHelix provides a data-driven upskilling platform for organizations to manage talent in a changing job market. It helps businesses attract and retain talent, assess exposure to automation, and identify roles suitable for remote work. The platform operates on a subscription model and combines proprietary data with research to deliver actionable insights. Core features include a Work From Home (WFH) index, skills evaluation, competitive intelligence, and reskilling capabilities, all accessible through a centralized platform. Unlike generic HR tools, WorkHelix relies on its own data and analytics to guide workforce decisions, enabling companies to plan talent development, remote-work strategies, and automation readiness. The company’s goal is to help organizations optimize their workforce strategy, build resilience against automation, and improve business performance through targeted upskilling and strategic workforce planning.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

Beaverton, Oregon

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Nucleus launched August 6, 2026 with live customers and quoted Nasdaq results.
  • Workhelix has raised $18.5 million, including AIX Ventures and Accenture Ventures support.
  • Enterprises leave up to 98% of identified AI value untapped, expanding urgency for Nucleus.

What critics are saying

  • Accenture LearnVantage can absorb Workhelix workflows and squeeze margins by 2027.
  • Most enterprises still lack production AI, limiting Workhelix to a narrow scaled-deployment market.
  • If Nucleus misses measurable ROI fast, pilots die and sales cycles stall.

What makes Workhelix unique

  • Workhelix combines MIT, Stanford, and Wharton research with task-level AI ROI measurement.
  • Nucleus uses HRIS and AI usage data to map opportunity and adoption in one system.
  • Nasdaq, Autodesk, and LogicMonitor validate enterprise demand for board-ready AI value analytics.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Remote Work Options

Competitive compensation package and benefits

Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

9%
TechRseries
Aug 7th, 2026
Workhelix launches Nucleus, the first platform to close the loop between AI opportunity and outcomes.

Workhelix launches Nucleus, the first platform to close the loop between AI opportunity and outcomes. Empowering leaders to know and grow the ROI of their AI. Every enterprise is investing heavily in AI, yet most executives can't answer a critical question of whether it's actually creating value. Workhelix announced Nucleus, a SaaS platform built on research by AI and economics experts from MIT, Stanford, and Wharton, that continuously measures AI's business impact while showing leaders where to focus next to maximize returns. "Turning AI's extraordinary capabilities into measurable business value is the central mission of my career and why I co-founded Workhelix. Nucleus helps leaders identify where AI can create the most value and measure whether that value is being realized." While enterprises have dashboards showing AI activity, few have visibility into AI value. Leaders know how many people have access to AI, but not whether the right people are using it, where the biggest opportunities remain, or whether adoption is translating into measurable business outcomes. Nucleus unifies opportunity mapping and adoption tracking so companies can see their AI progress in one place, in real time. A study co-authored by a Workhelix co-founder found that nearly 20% of U.S. workers could have at least half their tasks accelerated by generative AI. For a typical Fortune 500 company, that represents hundreds of millions of dollars, but identifying that opportunity is just the beginning. "Turning AI's extraordinary capabilities into measurable business value is the central mission of my career and why I co-founded Workhelix. Nucleus helps leaders identify where AI can create the most value and measure whether that value is being realized," said Erik Brynjolfsson, co-founder at Workhelix, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. "We're entering an era where competitive advantage won't come from having access to AI; it will come from effectively applying it and proving that it's working. Nucleus gives organizations both of those capabilities," said James Milin, co-founder and CEO of Workhelix. Workhelix's customers include U.S.-based enterprise organizations such as Autodesk, LogicMonitor, and Nasdaq. Workhelix has found that companies leave up to 98% of identified AI value on the table, with the biggest opportunity concentrated among employees who haven't yet reached high AI adoption. Closing the gap is where Nucleus customers are already seeing results: * A cloud infrastructure company generated more than $85,000 in value and saved over 800 hours of work from just six AI power users. * A global financial exchange increased employee time savings from AI more than sixfold in one year. * Nearly one in four employees at that company has now built an AI agent. Nucleus turns AI usage data into a clear, board-ready picture that: * Quantifies enterprise-wide AI value in dollars and hours saved * Identifies the highest-return AI opportunities across the organization * Reveals which teams and employees drive the greatest AI impact, and what top performers do differently * Shows leaders exactly where AI adoption needs to grow next "Workhelix has helped Nasdaq evaluate and quantify AI's impact across the company, leveraging deep, role-level analytics to identify impact, capture value, and unlock new growth opportunities," said Michael O'Rourke, SVP of AI and Machine Learning Engineering, Nasdaq. As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise impact, organizations need systems that manage AI transformation with the same rigor applied to finance, security, and operations. Nucleus enables enterprises to turn AI investments into measurable value. [To share your insights with us, please write to [email protected]]

FinSMEs
Feb 28th, 2025
Workhelix Secures $15M Series A Funding

Workhelix, a tech-enabled services company based in Palo Alto, CA, raised $15M in Series A funding. The round was led by AIX Ventures with participation from AI Fund, Accenture Ventures, BGV, Bloomberg Beta, and others. The funds will be used to expand operations and development efforts. The company helps enterprises maximize AI investments and has customers like Wayfair and Coursera. The founding team includes Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, James Milin, and Daniel Rock.

Business Wire
Feb 28th, 2025
Accenture Invests in Workhelix to Help Organizations Prepare their Workforces for Generative AI

Accenture has invested in Workhelix, a tech-enabled services company that helps organizations get the most out of their AI investments.

HrTechwire
Feb 27th, 2025
Accenture Invests in Workhelix to Help Organizations Prepare their Workforces for Generative AI

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Workhelix, a tech-enabled services company that helps organizations get the most out of their AI investments.