Staff Engineer, AI Developer Experience
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, AI Developer Experience based in United States.
This is an outstanding opportunity to shape the future of AI-assisted software development within a highly collaborative engineering organization. In this role, you will lead initiatives that enhance the daily developer experience by improving tooling, workflows, and engineering productivity. Working closely with application teams, you'll define best practices for AI adoption while building scalable, secure, and efficient development environments. Your expertise will influence engineering culture, streamline software delivery, and empower teams to build faster and with greater confidence. This position offers the chance to make organization-wide impact while remaining deeply hands-on with modern technologies and AI-driven development practices.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, AI Developer Experience based in United States.
This is an outstanding opportunity to shape the future of AI-assisted software development within a highly collaborative engineering organization. In this role, you will lead initiatives that enhance the daily developer experience by improving tooling, workflows, and engineering productivity. Working closely with application teams, you'll define best practices for AI adoption while building scalable, secure, and efficient development environments. Your expertise will influence engineering culture, streamline software delivery, and empower teams to build faster and with greater confidence. This position offers the chance to make organization-wide impact while remaining deeply hands-on with modern technologies and AI-driven development practices.
Accountabilities:
- Lead the strategy and evolution of AI-powered developer experience, enabling engineering teams to safely and effectively integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Evaluate, implement, and govern AI development tools, including code generation, intelligent assistants, and agent-based workflows, while establishing standards and best practices.
- Optimize developer productivity by improving build performance, testing workflows, linting, type checking, task orchestration, and overall engineering efficiency across TypeScript/Node.js and Python environments.
- Own and enhance local and cloud-based development environments, ensuring consistency, security, scalability, and reproducibility across projects.
- Maintain and improve shared developer libraries, internal frameworks, configuration systems, documentation, and onboarding resources.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, software development lifecycle improvements, dependency management, observability, and platform reliability initiatives.
- Mentor engineers, gather continuous feedback, influence engineering practices, and drive long-term improvements across the development organization.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work in developer tooling, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and Python ecosystems, including package management, build systems, tooling, and debugging complex development environments.
- Experience with monorepo management tools such as Nx or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining containerized development environments using devcontainers or comparable solutions.
- Practical experience evaluating and integrating AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Codex, or similar platforms, with a focus on governance and secure adoption.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence teams and drive cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience with AI workflow automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI security, secure execution environments, cloud-based development platforms, or remote development environments is considered an advantage.
- Competitive base salary ranging from $170,000 to $220,000 USD, based on experience, skills, and location.
- Annual target bonus of 15% of base salary.
- Long-term incentive program tied to company performance and growth.
- Fully remote work environment with a home office setup allowance.
- Flexible paid time off with a strong emphasis on work-life balance.
- Parental leave benefits and a family-first workplace culture.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions.
- Opportunity to collaborate with a passionate, mission-driven remote engineering team.
- Professional growth opportunities within an innovative, AI-focused engineering environment.