Staff Engineer, AI Productivity

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking 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. As a Staff Engineer, you will own this problem end-to-end, from setting up cloud development environments where agents can run autonomously to building MCP integrations that give agents access to our internal systems, to creating the documentation and context that helps agents understand how we build software. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Staff AI Productivity Engineer, you will be responsible for several key areas: * Building and maintaining the agentic development environment to ensure agents can operate independently in cloud-based development environments * Developing tooling integrations with MCP servers to connect our agents to the systems needed to build and debug software, such as CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, Github, etc * Creating and maintaining documentation and context for our agents, including our repo-wide agents.md file and working with teams to ensure our library of agent guidance and skills is continually pushing the bar * Enabling engineers to understand where agents are struggling and address root causes, such as better docs, tooling access, etc * Developing tooling for non-engineers to make simple visual updates to our application * Serving as a "PM" for internal AI agents, consistently keeping 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 WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you will need: * Strong software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to 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, touching CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code WHY REMOTE As a remote-first company, we are committed to providing a flexible and autonomous work environment that allows our engineers to work from anywhere. This role is location independent, and we offer a salary range of $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is adjusted based on location. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window. BENEFITS * Salary range of $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, adjusted based on location * Meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options * Early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window * Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI productivity technology and make a real impact on our customers' businesses * Collaborative and dynamic work environment with a team of passionate and motivated engineers * Flexible and autonomous work environment that allows for remote work from anywhere