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AI Engineer, Developer Experience
Retool
San Francisco$155k–315kHybrid7mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
- Build internal developer-facing AI tools and agents that are intelligent, fast, and deeply embedded into the software development lifecycle
- Create autonomous, resilient agents and evaluation frameworks to power an AI-driven software factory
- Drive context engineering that keeps AI-legible code, skills, and documentation reliable as the codebase moves fast beneath it
- Improve the performance, observability, and safety of the model architecture behind our internal AI tools
- Define and champion the workflows that maximize AI efficiency and accuracy across the organization
- Design processes for AI to evaluate and improve the state of code quality, test coverage, documentation freshness, and other toil
- Shape a model of AI-driven work where agents begin to own initiatives, proactively asking engineers for direction when greater judgment is required
- A track record of building and shipping real tools or pipelines—not just models or papers
- An eye for developer experience: you care how tools work and how they feel to use
- Experience integrating LLMs into development tools in impactful ways
- Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure that improves engineering productivity
- Excitement to have AI as a core collaborator in the development lifecycle
- A pragmatic mindset about what’s scalable and maintainable
- Strong opinions, weakly held—you move quickly but bring others along
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Equity Compensation
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