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Staff Engineer, AI Productivity

180k – 400kUnited StatesRemote7+ YOE
Summary

Staff-level engineer building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation to make AI coding agents dramatically more productive across the codebase. Owns agentic dev environments, MCP integrations, and agent context.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the agentic development environment: Ensure agents can operate in independent cloud-based development environments, execute full test suites, examine build results visually
  • Build tooling integrations: Build MCP server integrations that connect agents to systems needed to build and debug software (CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, Github, etc.)
  • Documentation and context: Own repo-wide agents.md file and work with teams to ensure library of agent guidance and skills is continually pushing the bar; ensure conventions and package structures are exposed in ways agents can effectively use
  • Enablement: Work with engineers to understand where agents are struggling and address root causes such as better docs, tooling access; develop tooling for non-engineers to make simple visual updates to the application
  • Serve as a "PM" for internal AI agents: Stay abreast of state-of-the-art AI productivity trends and drive improvements across the organization

Requirements

  • 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
  • Track record of building developer tools or infrastructure that other engineers actually use
  • Comfortable working across the stack: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code

Nice to Have

  • Experience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrations
  • Background in developer productivity, platform engineering, or developer experience roles
  • Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL
  • Experience setting up sandboxed or containerized development environments at scale
Skills
AI coding agentsClaude CodeCursorGitHub CopilotDevinMCP serversCI/CDcloud infrastructureTypeScriptJavaScriptGoGraphQLdeveloper toolsagent documentation
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