Software Engineer – AI Productivity

Hightouch

Staff AI Productivity Engineer focusing on AI coding tools at Hightouch, enhancing productivity with AI. Involves building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation for efficient codebase usage.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $320,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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: you'll touch CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code

Benefits

Comp & perks

meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options
offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineering fundamentalsAI coding agentsCircleCISlackDatadogGithubCI/CDcloud infrastructuredeveloper toolsapplication code

Soft Skills

documentation writingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationproject management