# Software Engineer, Developer Experience

**Company:** [Retool](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/retool)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $155k – $315k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, AI Agents, Developer Tooling, Internal Platforms, Infrastructure, Context Engineering, Evaluation Frameworks, Observability, Model Architecture, Software Development Lifecycle
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Build internal AI tools and autonomous agents that embed into Retool's engineering workflows to boost developer productivity and reduce toil. Requires shipping real AI-powered developer tools and infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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

## Requirements
- Track record of building and shipping real tools or pipelines—not just models or papers
- Experience integrating LLMs into development tools in impactful ways
- Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure that improves engineering productivity
- Eye for developer experience: care how tools work and how they feel to use
- Excitement to have AI as a core collaborator in the development lifecycle
- Pragmatic mindset about what’s scalable and maintainable
- Strong opinions, weakly held—you move quickly but bring others along

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks
- Experience with observability and safety of model architectures

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