Staff AI Engineer, Developer Tools & AI IDE Workflows

JetBrains; Greater London; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Remote work up to 30 days abroad

Learning and development opportunities

Relocation support

Job summary

JetBrains sought a senior technical leader to shape the future of AI-powered development workflows for CLion and C++ development. You will prototype, implement, and validate AI-driven features while guiding technical direction with hands-on engineering.

Join a role focused on architecture, agent tools, and practical delivery, working across JetBrains AI, ML, and product teams to advance the C++ ecosystem with AI-assisted software development.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience in senior technical roles.
• Experience building AI-powered developer tools and workflows.
• Ability to quickly adapt in JVM-based codebases and Kotlin/Java ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver AI-powered features for CLion and C++ workflows.
• Design architectures for AI integrations and agent tools.
• Prototype and validate AI workflows including debugging and navigation.

Skills

Staff Engineer/Principal/Tech Lead

Kotlin/JVM

AI-powered products

Developer tools

LLM workflows

Tools

IDE internals

Language servers

Static analysis

Job description

JetBrains sought a senior technical leader to shape the future of AI-powered development workflows for CLion and C++ development. You will prototype, implement, and validate AI-driven features while guiding technical direction with hands-on engineering.

Join a role focused on architecture, agent tools, and practical delivery, working across JetBrains AI, ML, and product teams to advance the C++ ecosystem with AI-assisted software development.