engineering
Posted 2 hours agoStaff 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