AI-Forward Engineer - Build AI Across Teams (Hybrid)

Swoop; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop is seeking an AI-Forward Engineer based in Redwood City, CA, to lead how AI reshapes every function of our startup. You will prototype AI tools, integrate them into product, engineering, data, design, and go-to-market workflows, and empower teams with practical AI capabilities.

You will build with Claude Code, Claude, Gemini, Kimi, and other frontier models, delivering reliable AI-powered solutions while focusing on security and cost efficiency in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in engineering or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages including TypeScript, Java, and Python.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub flows/actions, and CI/CD pipelines, and an instinct for where AI can accelerate them.
• Knowledge of AWS.
• Already building with AI, whether frontier models like Claude, Kimi, or Gemini; agentic coding tools; or something you hacked together last weekend.
• Comfort working across teams that don’t speak your language and translating their pain into working tools.
• A tinkerer's obsession — show us what you’ve built.
• Bias for shipping over perfecting — you’d rather demo a rough v1 in an hour than a polished v3 next week.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with every function (product, engineering, data, design, operations, sales, and product marketing) to discover pain points and translate them into AI-enabled solutions.
• Experiment with and implement AI-assisted developer tooling, leveraging Claude Code for agentic coding workflows and AI-enhanced CI/CD pipelines that help engineering teams ship faster with higher confidence.
• Leverage frontier models (Claude, Gemini, Kimi, GPT) as core engineering tools, evaluating new model releases for coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities, and integrating the best-fit models into team workflows as they evolve.
• Build and evolve our AI-augmented testing pipeline: from product spec use cases through test cases, test data, unit tests, and end-to-end Playwright automation, all generated via Claude Code, plus large-scale codebase improvement and refactoring through AST-based tooling (Java/Spoon, TypeScript/OXC, Flutter Dart Analyzer).
• Evaluate and deploy AI-powered design tools, such as Figma, Pencil, Stitch, Veo, and Nano Banana.
• Integrate AI-native intelligence platforms into go-to-market, operations, customer success, and support workflows.
• Stay on the leading edge of the AI tool landscape: continuously scouting, testing, and benchmarking new tools as they emerge weekly.
• Create internal tools and interfaces (chat-based assistants, dashboards, browser extensions, Slack integrations) that make AI capabilities accessible to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Establish best practices for agentic engineering, model evaluation, cost management, security, and responsible AI use across the organization.
• Instrument and monitor AI-powered systems for reliability, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness.

Skills

TypeScript

Java

Python

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

AWS

Claude Code

Gemini

Kimi

Spoon

OXC

Flutter Dart Analyzer

Tools

Claude Code

Gemini

Kimi

Spoon

OXC

Flutter Dart Analyzer

Job description

Swoop is seeking an AI-Forward Engineer based in Redwood City, CA, to lead how AI reshapes every function of our startup. You will prototype AI tools, integrate them into product, engineering, data, design, and go-to-market workflows, and empower teams with practical AI capabilities.

You will build with Claude Code, Claude, Gemini, Kimi, and other frontier models, delivering reliable AI-powered solutions while focusing on security and cost efficiency in a fast-growing environment.