Developer Productivity Engineer — AI-Driven Tooling

Thurn Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance Day 1

401(k) with employer match

HSA contributions

Catered meals daily

Monthly tech stipend

Gym membership

Job summary

Thurn Partners is hiring for a hands-on software engineering role on the Software Development team. You will own developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows that accelerate delivery across a large codebase.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, AI-driven coding workflows, and auto-remediation to minimize build failures, while aligning with leadership on productivity metrics and engineering goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience as an infrastructure-focused software engineer.
• Deep, production-level Python expertise across the language and its ecosystem.
• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools or agents in a real engineering workflow, including writing skills or configurations for them.
• Experience working with C++ and Java.
• Low ego—able to work both collaboratively and autonomously.
• Strong communicator, comfortable working directly with engineering teams to understand and prioritise pain points.

Responsibilities

• Build and own CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, and test acceleration systems across a large, fast-moving codebase.
• Implement internal AI coding workflows that let engineers delegate well-scoped work to coding agents.
• Build auto-remediation flows that detect and fix common build failures without human intervention.
• Evaluate and adopt new AI-powered developer tools, writing shared configurations and skills for agents like Claude Code and Codex.
• Automate local development environment setup and reduce drift between local, CI, and production environments.
• Build and maintain standard CLI tools, starter service templates, and IDE integrations used across engineering.
• Work directly with engineering teams to understand where friction exists and build platform-level solutions that remove it.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define and track developer productivity metrics.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Infra engineering

AI tools

C++

Java

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Build tooling

IDE integrations

Bazel

AI code agents tooling

Job description

Thurn Partners is hiring for a hands-on software engineering role on the Software Development team. You will own developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows that accelerate delivery across a large codebase.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, AI-driven coding workflows, and auto-remediation to minimize build failures, while aligning with leadership on productivity metrics and engineering goals.