Sr. AI Automation Engineer — Production-Grade LLM Agents

Coalition, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical insurance with dental &视科

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Home office stipend & WeWork access

Wellness programs

Job summary

Coalition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation, to architect and deliver production-grade AI agents and workflows.

You will collaborate with operators, product, data, and engineering teams to translate complex processes into reliable software and reusable capabilities, balancing rapid experimentation with strong engineering judgment. You will define system architecture, data contracts, and evaluation methods, ensuring safe, auditable automation with proper permissions and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including substantial recent experience building and shipping LLM-backed applications used by real users.
• Demonstrated experience taking AI agents or multi-step automation workflows from prototype through reliable production operation.
• Strong Python engineering skills and practical SQL expertise, including the 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.
• Experience designing and operating systems that integrate with business-critical systems of record.
• Strong judgment around evaluation methodology, reliability, safety controls, and the tradeoffs required to deploy AI systems responsibly.
• Solid production engineering fundamentals across Git, CI/CD, containers, deployment, monitoring, testing, permissions, and rollback.
• Ability to lead technical work in ambiguous environments, influence stakeholders, and turn incomplete requirements into practical, high-quality solutions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work directly with both technical and non-technical partners.

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

LLM-backed applications

Python

SQL

Prompting

Agent design

System architecture

CI/CD

Observability

Communication

Mentorship

Tools

MCP

Job description

Coalition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation, to architect and deliver production-grade AI agents and workflows.

You will collaborate with operators, product, data, and engineering teams to translate complex processes into reliable software and reusable capabilities, balancing rapid experimentation with strong engineering judgment. You will define system architecture, data contracts, and evaluation methods, ensuring safe, auditable automation with proper permissions and