Coalition
Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation
Any location, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This is a senior individual-contributor role for an AI-native engineer who can move from ambiguous business problems to durable technical solutions.
- You will balance rapid experimentation with strong engineering judgment.
- You will define system architecture, establish evaluation and reliability practices, and ensure that production agents operate with the appropriate controls for permissions, auditability, human review, and rollback.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of AI agents, reusable skills, and automation workflows used by Coalition's internal teams.
- Design and evolve integrations between agents and systems of record using MCP and comparable tool-integration frameworks.
- Build systems with robust controls for permissions, observability, auditability, human-in-the-loop review, failure containment, and rollback.
- Partner with data engineering and business stakeholders to ensure automations use trustworthy data and have sustainable ownership.
- Drive technical decisions across multiple workflows, identify reusable patterns, and raise the engineering bar for the team.
- Mentor engineers and technical partners through design reviews, implementation guidance, and practical AI engineering standards.
- Document systems, decisions, and operating practices so that teams can safely maintain and extend what you build.
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including substantial recent experience building and shipping LLM-backed applications used by real users.
Requirements
- Deep experience with prompting, tool use, agentic loops, structured outputs, multi-step workflows, error handling, and production deployment.
Skills
- Demonstrated experience taking AI agents or multi-step automation workflows from prototype through reliable production operation.
- Strong Python engineering skills and practical SQL expertise, including the ability to work directly with production data models.
- Experience designing and operating systems that integrate with business-critical systems of record.
- Strong judgment around evaluation methodology, reliability, safety controls, and the tradeoffs required to deploy AI systems responsibly.
- Solid production engineering fundamentals across Git, CI/CD, containers, deployment, monitoring, testing, permissions, and rollback.
- Experience designing evaluation harnesses, test datasets, and monitoring for LLM-backed systems.
- Background in internal tools, solutions engineering, professional services, startup environments, or founding teams.
- Familiarity with systems such as Linear, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, or Snowflake.
Compensation
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
- The US base salary for this position ranges from $130,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $195,000/year in our highest geographic market.
- Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process.
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with competitive employer match
- Up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
Company info
- Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
- Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real-and happening daily at Coalition.
- Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes.
- Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
- Coalition is building an AI Automation team to eliminate manual work and improve how teams across the company operate.
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