# Software Engineer - AI Automation

**Company:** [Coalition Security](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coalition-security)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $115k – $168k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Mcp, Agentic Workflows, Llm Applications, Prompting, Tool Use, Evaluation Sets, Cursor, Git, Continuous Integration, Containers, Linear, Jira, Zendesk
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Build and operate LLM-powered agents that automate business workflows, integrating systems of record through MCP and validating behavior with structured evaluations. Requires 5+ years of software development experience, strong Python and SQL, and hands-on experience shipping agents to production.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Author reusable skills that encode team processes, judgment, and edge cases for agent invocation.
- Build agent workflows by connecting agents to systems of record through MCP servers, composing skills and tools, and extending MCP coverage when needed.
- Define correctness criteria with business stakeholders, create evaluation sets, establish baselines, and use evaluations to guide release decisions.
- Deploy and support agents in production, including permissions, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, audit trails, rollback mechanisms, tuning, documentation, and business-team ownership.
- Partner with data engineers on data access, models, and data quality requirements.

## Requirements
- Substantial hands-on experience shipping LLM-backed applications involving prompting, tool use, agentic loops, and multi-step workflows.
- At least one shipped agent used by non-engineers.
- Practical experience with MCP, skill or tool authoring, and orchestrating agents against systems of record.
- Experience building evaluation sets and using them to make product decisions.
- Fluency with agentic coding tools such as Cursor.
- Strong Python skills and comfort with SQL and production data models.
- Ability to translate business processes into technical requirements without a product manager.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, undocumented processes, internal tools, and unclear ownership.
- Experience with Git, CI, containers, deployment, and operational support.
- At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building or maintaining MCP servers.
- Solutions engineering, professional services, internal tools, or startup founding experience.
- Familiarity with Linear, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, or Snowflake.
- Experience in insurance, fintech, or another regulated domain.

## Compensation
- US base salary: $115,000-$168,000 per year, depending on geographic market and qualifications.

## Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
- Mental and physical health wellness programs.

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