AI Decision Engineering Lead — Business Operations

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plan

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Fluidstack is hiring a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Business Operations team, guiding a small group of AI software engineers building AI-powered tools and decision systems that boost productivity while shipping hands-on. You will set technical direction, own the team's delivery bar, grow engineers, and partner with leadership to pick high-impact AI augmentation bets.

You will design and maintain shared AI infrastructure, translate goals into an AI tooling roadmap, and ensure measurable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including leading engineers or owning technical direction for a team.
• Production-grade code in Go, Python, and TypeScript (and the ability to work in an arbitrary language, primarily driving AI coding tools)
• Strong full-stack development skills building web applications (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
• Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-weight models), creating and using MCP servers, and agentic frameworks
• Deep understanding of AI coding agent tools including Claude Code and Cursor, and the agent frameworks around them
• Proven ability to work autonomously and get a team (and their agents) to ship results with minimal direction and high impact
• Great product and design taste, and the judgment to balance rapid iteration with maintainable foundations others build on
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and drive adoption
• Nice to have: exposure to business operations, finance, or strategy-and-operations workflows, or to leading teams building internal operational tooling

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of Decision Engineers, setting technical direction and owning the bar for what ships
• Still build hands-on: personally ship the highest-leverage AI tools and agents for business operations workflows
• Own the team's delivery: identify the highest-impact AI augmentation opportunities across business operations workflows and turn them into shipped tools with measurable productivity gains
• Design and maintain shared AI infrastructure including AGENTS.md and SKILLS.md, and shared skills the wider organization builds on
• Grow the engineers on your team through review, direction, and hiring
• Partner with team and functional leadership to translate their goals into an AI tooling roadmap

Skills

Leadership

Full-stack development

AI tooling

Autonomous work

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Next.js

LLM APIs

MCP servers

agentic frameworks

Claude Code

Cursor

OpenAI

Anthropic

Job description

Fluidstack is hiring a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Business Operations team, guiding a small group of AI software engineers building AI-powered tools and decision systems that boost productivity while shipping hands-on. You will set technical direction, own the team's delivery bar, grow engineers, and partner with leadership to pick high-impact AI augmentation bets.

You will design and maintain shared AI infrastructure, translate goals into an AI tooling roadmap, and ensure measurable