Staff AI Operations Engineer — Scale Reliable AI Workflows

Checkr; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Learning & development

Equity compensation

Relocation stipend

In-office perks

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Staff Operations AI Engineer to architect and refine AI-driven operations at scale in Denver. You will design integration architectures and data structures that power AI Agents, automate workflows, and ensure secure, observable systems across Checkr and third-party platforms.

You’ll own end-to-end projects, serve as a technical authority, and collaborate with teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions that improve efficiency and AI quality.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years in automation platforms, integration architecture, or AI-enabled operations.
• Deep expertise in API design, OAuth/token-based authentication, webhooks, and event-driven systems.
• Proven experience building reliable automation workflows with observability, retries, and failure handling.
• Solid SQL experience for data transformation, validation, and operational analytics (Snowflake a plus).
• Advanced comfort with JSON, schemas, and data normalization for LLM and automation use cases.
• Hands-on experience running LLM-powered agents or automations in production, including guardrails and output validation, with proven experience in prompt engineering frameworks.
• Familiarity with integrating with CRM and support systems (e.g., Salesforce, Zendesk).
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the integration architecture that enables AI Agents to operate safely and reliably across Checkr systems and third-party platforms.
• Build production-grade API integrations with secure authentication flows, webhook and event-driven patterns, and robust automation workflows that coordinate actions across tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, and internal services.
• Ensure AI-driven operations are resilient through strong error handling, retries, observability, and fallback mechanisms.
• Proactively identify integration gaps, system bottlenecks, and failure modes, and lead the technical solutions that improve reliability and scale.

Tools

Tray.io

Make

Zapier

UiPath

Python

Snowflake

Job description

Checkr is seeking a Staff Operations AI Engineer to architect and refine AI-driven operations at scale in Denver. You will design integration architectures and data structures that power AI Agents, automate workflows, and ensure secure, observable systems across Checkr and third-party platforms.

You’ll own end-to-end projects, serve as a technical authority, and collaborate with teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions that improve efficiency and AI quality.