Senior AI Automation Engineer (Remote) — Scale AI Workflows

Coalition; United States; Remote; USD 107,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Flexible PTO

Home office stipend

Wellness programs

Job summary

Coalition, a remote-first insurer focused on digital risk, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation to lead design and delivery of reliable AI agents and workflows used by internal teams. You will translate complex business problems into durable software, define system architectures, and ensure governance, permissions, and auditability at scale.

This senior IC role requires hands-on Python, experience with LLM-backed systems, and the ability to mentor engineers while raising the

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including substantial recent experience building and shipping LLM-backed applications used by real users.
• Experience taking AI agents or multi-step automation workflows from prototype through reliable production operation.
• Strong Python engineering skills and practical SQL expertise, including ability to work directly with production data models.
• Deep experience with prompting, tool use, agentic loops, structured outputs, multi-step workflows, error handling, and production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of AI agents, reusable skills, and automation workflows used by Coalition’s internal teams.
• Translate complex, ambiguous business processes, judgment calls, and edge cases into reliable, maintainable software.
• Design and evolve integrations between agents and systems of record using MCP and comparable tool-integration frameworks.
• Define architecture, interfaces, data contracts, and operational standards for production AI systems.
• Establish evaluation strategies, quality baselines, and release criteria; use results to make sound deployment and iteration decisions.
• Build systems with robust controls for permissions, observability, auditability, human-in-the-loop review, failure containment, and rollback.
• Partner with data engineering and business stakeholders to ensure automations use trustworthy data and have sustainable ownership.
• Drive technical decisions across multiple workflows, identify reusable patterns, and raise the engineering bar for the team.
• Mentor engineers and technical partners through design reviews, implementation guidance, and practical AI engineering standards.
• Document systems, decisions, and operating practices so that teams can safely maintain and extend what you build.

Skills

Python

LLM apps

Agent workflows

CI/CD

Git

SQL

Containers

Tools

Git

SQL

Containers

Job description

Coalition, a remote-first insurer focused on digital risk, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation to lead design and delivery of reliable AI agents and workflows used by internal teams. You will translate complex business problems into durable software, define system architectures, and ensure governance, permissions, and auditability at scale.

This senior IC role requires hands-on Python, experience with LLM-backed systems, and the ability to mentor engineers while raising the