Senior AI Code Review Engineer (Copilot) – Remote

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own features end-to-end for the Copilot code review assistant. You will shape agent behavior, balance performance and cost, and ship improvements without a fixed spec.

Join a remote-first team in the United States, collaborating across product and platform to build the world’s leading AI-powered developer tools. You’ll work on pull requests, review quality, and ensure scale with on-call rotations and robust reliability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering with production systems.
• Strong knowledge of multiple programming languages listed.
• Experience delivering production software and systems.

Responsibilities

• Improve how the agent reviews: context, memory, and PR handling over time.
• Integrate frontier models, balance quality, latency, and cost.
• Use offline and online evals to validate changes.
• Develop end-to-end review experiences in VS Code, Copilot app, and CLI.
• Reduce false positives and unnecessary comments.
• Maintain high-throughput service with on-call rotation.
• Advance workflows to accelerate the whole team.

Skills

6+ years software

Distributed systems

Multiple languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree in CS/EE

Doctorate in CS/EE

Associate’s degree + 5+ years

Equivalent experience

Tools

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own features end-to-end for the Copilot code review assistant. You will shape agent behavior, balance performance and cost, and ship improvements without a fixed spec.

Join a remote-first team in the United States, collaborating across product and platform to build the world’s leading AI-powered developer tools. You’ll work on pull requests, review quality, and ensure scale with on-call rotations and robust reliability.