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SpotOnSpotOnAustin, TX

Staff AI Engineer

Staff AI Engineer architects AI-native systems for PR review, Android test automation, and agent swarms to accelerate fintech engineering at scale. Requires 5+ years platform engineering, 2+ years production AI agents, and fintech/mobile expertise.

210k – 280k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Serve as AI engineering technical authority, setting standards for AI in code generation, review, testing, and task automation in a PCI-regulated environment.
  • Architect and implement three projects:
    • Automated PR Review: risk-tiered AI pipeline with escalation for human review on payment/PCI code.
    • Android and API Test Automation: automated test harness for POS/KDS with virtual devices, AI failure analysis.
    • AI Agent Swarms: multi-agent pipeline from PRD to tested/reviewed PR for tier 1-3 work.
  • Evangelize by shipping working systems with bi-weekly demos and metrics.
  • Define and report metrics: developer hours recovered, cycle time, quality, cost per deployment.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building developer tools, infrastructure, or platform engineering systems.
  • 2+ years with LLMs/AI agents in production (code gen/review/automation).
  • Designed AI-assisted code gen/review for 50+ engineers/30+ repos.
  • Built multi-agent workflows (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.).
  • Daily hands-on with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.).
  • Domain expertise in at least two: fintech/payments/PCI, Android testing (Espresso, UI Automator), multi-agent architecture.

Tech Environment

  • Languages: Kotlin (Android), Go, TypeScript, Python
  • Mobile: Android-native POS applications

Skills

LLMsAI AgentsLangGraphCrewaiAutogenClaude CodeCursorGithub CopilotKotlinGoTypeScriptPythonEspressoUi Automator

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