Remote Embedded AI Automation Engineer for Production

Harness; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Flexible work schedule

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

Monthly, quarterly, and annual social/

Monthly internet reimbursement

Job summary

Harness is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to embed inside enterprise engineering teams, building AI-native automation on the Harness platform. This hands-on role writes production code and scripts, builds production pipelines, and connects Harness AI Agents into a customer’s existing systems, staying engaged until capability is live in production.

You will work directly alongside customer engineers, turning business objectives into working software rather than documentation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on coding in customer environments.
• Experience building integrations against APIs and event-driven systems.
• Background in forward-deployed, solutions engineering or embedded consulting.
• Deep grounding in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and derive working integrations from objectives.
• Excellent stakeholder communication with customers.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites for active builds.

Responsibilities

• Embed inside a customer’s engineering organization for the length of a build engagement to design and build agent‑driven automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Write production code connecting Harness AI Agents to a customer’s pipelines, repositories, ITSM tooling, security systems, and infrastructure.
• Partner directly with customer engineering stakeholders and the broader Harness delivery team to translate an approved plan into working software.
• Prototype quickly, ship incrementally, and iterate directly with customer engineers rather than handing off a static design document.
• Turn what you build into reusable patterns and share them with the broader Harness delivery organization.
• Bring direct feedback to Harness product and engineering teams based on what you learn building in real customer environments.
• Support the transition from custom build to steady‑state operation so the customer can independently operate and extend what you built

Skills

Hands-on coding

CI/CD

API integration

Agent orchestration

Customer collaboration

Job description

Harness is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to embed inside enterprise engineering teams, building AI-native automation on the Harness platform. This hands-on role writes production code and scripts, builds production pipelines, and connects Harness AI Agents into a customer’s existing systems, staying engaged until capability is live in production.

You will work directly alongside customer engineers, turning business objectives into working software rather than documentation.