Key skills
AI coding agentsDeveloper toolsCloud infrastructureCI/CDTypeScript/JavaScriptDocumentation writingProblem-solvingCommunicationGrowth mindsetTeam collaborationJavaScriptTypeScriptGoAIGraphQLCircleCIDatadogGitHub
About this role
Hightouch is a modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams, seeking a Staff AI Productivity Engineer to enhance their engineering practices with AI coding tools. The role involves building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation to improve the effectiveness of AI agents across the codebase.
Responsibilities:
- 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:
- 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
- Experience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrations
- Background in developer productivity, platform engineering, or developer experience roles
- Experience with our stack: TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL
- You've set up sandboxed or containerized development environments at scale