AI Automation Engineer - Build Production Workflows Equity

Simplify

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 hours ago
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Job summary

Simplify is partnering with a fast-growing AI infrastructure company to hire a Software Engineer, AI Automation in San Francisco. You’ll embed with finance, legal, and people teams, understand how their work gets done, and build software they adopt. Compensation: $224–300K plus equity, plus equity.

You’ll write production code, build intuitive interfaces, and use AI to turn manual decisions and approvals into reliable workflows. Join a team turning research into scalable software.

Qualifications

  • Shipped production code in Go, Python, or TypeScript and can learn the needed language.
  • Experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) and agentic frameworks.
  • Familiar with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) and autonomous agents.

Responsibilities

  • Design, research, and test AI-driven automation end-to-end.
  • Build signals, models, and backtesting infrastructure for AI workflows.
  • Work with finance, legal, and people teams to ship usable software.
  • Monitor and iterate on live performance as conditions change.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers to deploy research quickly.

Skills

Go
Python
TypeScript
LLM APIs
Autonomous agents
System design
Data handling

Tools

OpenAI
Anthropic
Cursor
Claude Code
MCP servers
Agent frameworks

Job description

Simplify is partnering with a fast-growing AI infrastructure company to hire a Software Engineer, AI Automation in San Francisco. You’ll embed with finance, legal, and people teams, understand how their work gets done, and build software they adopt. Compensation: $224–300K plus equity, plus equity.

You’ll write production code, build intuitive interfaces, and use AI to turn manual decisions and approvals into reliable workflows. Join a team turning research into scalable software.

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