Staff AI Automation Engineer

Overview

Staff AI Automation Engineer responsible for setting technical direction for how automation is built, scaled, and governed across the enterprise.

What you'll do

• Own the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for an automation portfolio.
• Set and evolve automation engineering standards (architecture patterns, testing, observability, deployment, documentation).
• Lead modernization strategy for the legacy RPA estate, including migration and decommission playbooks.
• Design reusable, production-grade patterns for agentic workflows and ensure shared integration standards.
• Build internal tooling and shared components to reduce the cost of new automations.
• Mentor engineers and act as the technical escalation point across stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in automation engineering, software engineering, or systems integration.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Deep hands-on experience with RPA platforms (Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, UiPath, or equivalent).
• Experience designing failure-at-scale automation systems (retry logic, alerting, state management, recovery).
• Hands-on experience building production agentic systems (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with REST API integration (authentication patterns, rate limiting, pagination, orchestration).
• Track record establishing engineering standards and mentoring other engineers to that standard.