[Remote] Staff Engineer, AI Productivity
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform that empowers marketing teams to leverage data and AI for enhanced campaign performance. They are seeking a Staff AI Productivity Engineer to develop infrastructure and tooling that enhances the effectiveness of AI coding tools within their engineering organization.ResponsibilitiesOwn the agentic development environment: Ensure agents can operate in independent cloud-based development environments, execute our full test suites, examine build results visually, etcBuild our tooling integrations: Build MCP server integrations that connect our agents to the systems needed to build and debug software, such as CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, Github, etcDocumentation and context: Own our repo-wide agents.md file and work with teams to ensure our library of agent guidance and skills is continually pushing the bar. Ensure our conventions and package structures are exposed in ways that agents can effectively useEnablement: Work with our engineers to understand where agents are struggling and address root causes such as better docs, tooling access, etc. Develop tooling for non-engineers to make simple visual updates to our applicationServe as a 'PM' for internal AI agents: Consistently keep us on the leading edge of AI productivity trends by staying abreast of what is state-of-the-art in industry and driving those improvements across HightouchSkillsStrong software engineering fundamentals—you can dive into complex backend code and understand it quicklyDeep hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or similar)Experience writing effective agent documentation, custom instructions, or context files that meaningfully improved agent outputTrack record of building developer tools or infrastructure that other engineers actually useComfortable working across the stack: you'll touch CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application codeExperience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrationsBackground in developer productivity, platform engineering, or developer experience rolesExperience with our stack: TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQLYou've set up sandboxed or containerized development environments at scaleBenefitsMeaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO optionsEarly exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise windowCompany OverviewHightouch is an agentic marketing platform that utilizes a Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP) to enhance marketing efforts. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.hightouch.com.