Automation Engineer (UIPath)

Toptal; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Professional development

Job summary

Toptal in the United States is looking for a Senior Automation & AI Systems Developer to own end-to-end build, deployment, and production support for enterprise automations. You will work across UiPath, Power Platform, Anthropic Claude, and REST APIs to scale automated solutions and integrate AI-assisted patterns.

The role emphasizes production-grade craftsmanship, structured exception handling, CI/CD practices, and governance in a high-volume estate, with opportunities to push into agentic

Qualifications

• Hands-on RPA development with UiPath as primary platform.
• Proven production-grade automation experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong SQL skills for data manipulation in pipelines.
• Current UiPath developer credential required.
• Experience with Agile delivery processes.
• Familiarity with Python or PowerShell scripting for orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy production-grade automations on UiPath.
• Build complex bot architectures with multi-system integrations and robust error handling.
• Incorporate AI capabilities and agentic automation patterns into workflows (Anthropic Claude).
• Develop back-end integrations using Power Platform and APIs.
• Write custom Python/PowerShell scripts and REST API connections.
• Provide production support and incident triage to minimize downtime.
• Contribute to reusable libraries and maintain audit-ready docs.

Skills

RPA Development

Agile Delivery

Production Support

Troubleshooting

High-Volume Ops

Education

UiPath Certification (Active)

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

UiPath

Power Platform

Python

PowerShell

REST API

Anthropic Claude

Azure DevOps

Git

Document Understanding

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on, execution-focused Senior Automation & AI Systems Developer (UiPath & Power Platform) to build, scale, and maintain enterprise automations across our client's regional operations. In this role, you will own the end-to-end development lifecycle for production-grade bots on a mature estate, while actively expanding into cutting-edge AI-assisted and agentic automation patterns.

This position balances rigorous build and production support work on a high-volume platform with a genuine, applied pathway into modern AI engineering. Working across UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform, Anthropic Claude, and REST APIs, you will build complex bot architectures, integrate language models, and construct resilient, multi-system workflows.

General Information (About the Client)

Our client operates a mature, enterprise-scale Center of Excellence (CoE) running a robust production estate-executing over 19,000 monthly jobs across 125+ unattended production robots and 200+ active automations.

Operating within a modern tech environment utilizing UiPath, Power Platform, Anthropic Claude, ServiceNow, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, they are actively advancing from traditional UI-level RPA into agentic automation patterns. They foster a disciplined, engineering-first culture that prioritizes reusable code libraries, structured exception handling, robust CI/CD practices, and strict compliance-ready documentation.

Tasks and Deliverables

• Production Automation Development: Design, develop, test, and deploy resilient, production-grade automations primarily on UiPath across core business lines.
• Complex Architecture Engineering: Build and maintain advanced bot architectures incorporating multi-system integrations, structured exception handling, retry logic, and automated recovery patterns.
• AI & Agentic Service Composition: Integrate AI capabilities directly into automation workflows, utilizing Anthropic Claude, Document Understanding, classification models, and structured LLM prompts.
• Power Platform Back-End Integration: Construct and support modern user interfaces using Power Apps / Power Automate backed by robust UiPath and API execution engines.
• API & Scripting Extensions: Extend automation capabilities beyond basic UI automation by writing custom Python, PowerShell, REST API, and webhook integrations.
• Production Support & Incident Triage: Troubleshoot and resolve production bot failures with minimal downtime, managing queues, analyzing logs, and working closely with architects.
• Code Quality & Governance: Contribute to reusable component libraries, conduct peer code reviews against team standards, and maintain audit-ready technical documentation.

Required Experience

• UiPath Engineering Seniority: 3+ years of dedicated, hands-on RPA development experience with UiPath as your primary platform.
• Production-Grade Bot Experience: Proven track record building and supporting automations running live in production - demonstrating deep mastery of exception handling, logging, error recovery, and multi-system integration (training exercises/POCs do not qualify).
• Database & SQL Proficiency: Practical experience writing SQL queries for data manipulation, extraction, and validation within automated pipelines.
• Active UiPath Certification: Hold a current, active UiPath developer credential (e.g., Automation Developer Professional, Automation Developer Associate, Specialized AI Professional, or valid Advanced RPA Developer / UiARD).
• Agile Delivery Practice: Demonstrated experience delivering software within an Agile framework (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming).
• Preferred Qualifications (Plus):
• Practical Python or PowerShell scripting for advanced orchestration, data manipulation, and custom API connections.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate), REST APIs, webhooks, or AI-assisted development tools (UiPath Autopilot, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude).
• Exposure to agentic automation patterns, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), process/task mining, or secondary RPA platforms (Automation Anywhere).
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps/Jira, and enterprise systems (Microsoft Dynamics 365, Workday, Salesforce, Vertafore, or Oracle Fusion).
• Applied AI Engineering Pathway: Work on a platform where traditional RPA actively merges with Generative AI, Anthropic Claude, and emerging agentic workflows.
• High-Volume Enterprise Impact: Contribute directly to a high-throughput production estate managing tens of thousands of execution jobs monthly.
• Modern Development Ecosystem: Work with modern software engineering practices - leveraging Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines, and structured component libraries.