AI/Automation Engineer

Synapse SEM; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Synapse Labs in Boston, MA, seeks an AI/Automation Engineer to design and build back-end systems powering internal automation and marketing intelligence. You will translate business ideas into scalable data pipelines, cloud workflows, and production-grade services, with significant autonomy in shaping architecture.

Collaborating with strategy and marketing teams, you will reduce manual bottlenecks, implement reliable ingestion, and drive CI/CD and observability across deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong Python experience building production-grade backend systems.
• Deep knowledge of SQL and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery preferred).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and designing reliable ingestion workflows.
• Hands-on with serverless or containerized workloads (GCP/AWS).
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting in production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that automate marketing workflows and reporting.
• Build and maintain structured data pipelines ingesting large volumes of data.
• Ensure automated deployments and consistent Dev/Stage/Prod environments.
• Deploy and manage automation workloads in cloud environments (GCP preferred).
• Improve CI/CD, containerization, and environment structure.
• Collaborate with marketing strategists to translate business requirements into durable technical solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

Cloud

Observability

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

BigQuery

GCP

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

As the AI/Automation Engineer at Synapse Labs, you will design and build the systems that power our internal automation and marketing intelligence initiatives. Your work will eliminate manual bottlenecks and transform search, AI, and competitive data into structured, actionable insights.

You will partner with our strategy team to translate business ideas into scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud-based workflows. This is a foundational engineering role within Synapse Labs. You will have significant autonomy in shaping architecture decisions and establishing engineering standards as we scale our internal automation capabilities.

Core Responsibilities

• System Design & Development:Design and implement backend systems that automate marketing workflows, including search intelligence tracking, competitor monitoring, reporting automation, and operational tooling.
• Data Engineering:Build and maintain structured data pipelines that ingest, transform, and store large volumes of search, AI, and performance data. Design clean schemas and optimize queries for performance and cost efficiency.
• Infrastructure as Code & DevOps:Ensure that deployments are automated, environments (Dev/Stage/Prod) are consistent, and the codebase is stable and reliable.
• Cloud & Deployment:Deploy and manage automation workloads in a cloud environment (GCP preferred). Improve CI/CD processes, containerization practices, and environment structure (dev/staging/production).
• Reliability & Monitoring:Implement logging, retry logic, alerting, and error handling across automation workflows.
• Technical Collaboration:Work closely with marketing strategists to convert evolving business requirements into durable technical systems. Provide architectural input on new automation initiatives.

Technical Skills Required

• Primary Language:Strong proficiency in Python. Experience building production-grade backend systems.
• Data & SQL:Deep knowledge of SQL and experience working with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery preferred). Ability to design scalable data models and optimize large datasets.
• APIs & Automation:Experience integrating third-party APIs, handling rate limits, managing concurrency, and designing reliable ingestion workflows.
• Cloud Infrastructure:Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining serverless or containerized workloads (GCP, AWS, or similar). Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability:Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting in production systems.

Preferred Background

• Education:B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering. Equivalent practical experience building production-grade systems is equally valued.
• The “Hybrid” Mindset:You don’t need to be a marketing expert, but you should be curious about how search engines work and how data drives business decisions. You’re comfortable partnering with non-technical stakeholders and translating business problems into clean technical solutions.
• Systems-Oriented Problem Solver:You see manual, repetitive processes as engineering opportunities. If a spreadsheet takes 10 hours to complete, your instinct is to automate it in 10 seconds.

About Synapse

Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Synapse is a rapidly growing performance marketing firm with core competencies in paid search advertising, search engine optimization, content marketing, social media marketing, analytics and conversion optimization. Our mission is to build a more data-centric, client-focused search engine marketing firm by leveraging advanced data analysis techniques and statistics and by hiring the most capable marketers in the field. We passionately pursue this goal, and we’re looking for analytical, dynamic individuals to join our team. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a truly innovative SEM firm.

Massachusetts

24 School Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02108
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Synapse is an AI-first performance marketing agency specializing in paid search, SEO,content marketing, social media, analytics and CRO.