AI Engineer - Developer Tools & Agent Platform (Remote)

Returnless / SendDirect B.V.; United States; Remote; USD 84,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Ergonomic home office setup allowance

Remote-first within Germany

Team events and company gatherings

Vermögenswirksame Leistungen (capital‑

Company pension scheme

JobRad subsidy

Job summary

JTL is seeking two AI Engineers who will embed AI agents into developers’ daily work, enabling workshops, pairing and coaching to craft robust prompts and reliable tickets for automated actions.

You will serve as the team contact to share what works, build end-to-end AI workflows from idea to production, and ensure repositories are ready for agents with context, skills and validation checks.

Qualifications

• Several years of software development experience with real-world products.
• Excellent communication and teamwork to help engineers through collaboration and explanation.
• Hands-on experience with coding agents like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot in daily work.
• Understanding practical LLM applications: context engineering, tool calling, and agentic workflows.
• Able to navigate unfamiliar codebases and identify the context an AI agent needs.
• Experience integrating APIs, tools and data sources into software systems.
• Experience building custom tools, MCP servers, skills, and plugins to extend AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Enable developers to work with AI in workshops, pairing and coaching.
• Be the point of contact for teams to collect bottlenecks and share effective practices.
• Build AI workflows from idea to production on real tickets: bugs, reviews, tests.
• Prepare repositories for agents: context files, skills, rules, and automated checks.
• Develop internal agent platform and integrations with Jira, GitHub, docs, code search and MCP servers.
• Run workflows in production: monitor cost, quality, and data behind scorecards.
• Evaluate new AI agent developments for practical value to the team.

Skills

Agent coding tools

LLMs in practice

Codebase navigation

API integration

Custom tools/MCP servers

Tech stacks (C#, PHP, Node.js, React)

German & English fluency

Tools

Jira

GitHub

MCP servers

Job description

JTL is seeking two AI Engineers who will embed AI agents into developers’ daily work, enabling workshops, pairing and coaching to craft robust prompts and reliable tickets for automated actions.

You will serve as the team contact to share what works, build end-to-end AI workflows from idea to production, and ensure repositories are ready for agents with context, skills and validation checks.