engineering
Posted Jun 11Staff Engineer, AI Productivity
at Hightouch
(north America), United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Own the agentic development environment: Ensure agents can operate in independent cloud-based development environments, execute our full test suites, examine build results visually, etc
- Build 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, etc
- Ensure our conventions and package structures are exposed in ways that agents can effectively use
- Track record of building developer tools or infrastructure that other engineers actually use
- System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
Requirements
- Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.
- Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.
- At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses.
- We are looking for a Staff AI Productivity Engineer to accelerate how our engineering organization works with AI coding tools.
- This is a hands-on technical role focused on building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation that makes AI agents dramatically more effective across our codebase.
- AI tools are evolving rapidly, and we believe the companies that invest in making agents truly productive - not just available - will have a significant advantage.
- This role is a companion role to our Developer Productivity role but has a distinct focus: while Dev Productivity owns the build/test/deploy pipeline, you'll own the AI-assisted development experience.
- Documentation 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.
- Serve 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 Hightouch
- You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment. Must have
- Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can dive into complex backend code and understand it quickly Deep 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 output
- Experience with our stack: TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL
- AI Skills Interview [60m]: We’ll dive into how you leverage AI and how you’ve helped others do the same
- After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security.
Experience
- This is a senior role, but we focus on impact and potential for growth more than years of experience.
Benefits
- The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy.
- We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window. About You
Contact
- Apply: Curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute!
Additional details
- Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP.
- With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves.
- Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.
- The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success.
- If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you. About the Role
- You'll own this problem end-to-end: from setting up cloud development environments where agents can run autonomously, to building MCP integrations that give agents access to our internal systems, to creating the documentation and context that helps agents understand how we build software.
- You’ll have the hands-on acumen to do a lot of the heavy lifting yourself and the leadership skills to drive cross-team efforts to raise the bar everywhere.
- We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above.
- Comfortable working across the stack: you'll touch CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code Nice to have •
- Experience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrations