Staff Engineer, AI Tooling & Agentic Workflows

Tern; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Tern is seeking a Staff Engineer for R&D AI Tooling to reshape the travel industry through agentic development. This role involves shipping real engineering work weekly while building the tooling and workflows that enhance team performance.

As part of a mission-driven team, you'll work closely with a supportive environment that values creativity, curiosity, and operational excellence. Enjoy a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Staff or principal background at an AI-native company.
• Experience with MCP integrations, custom agents, eval frameworks.
• Ability to build and own tooling that accelerates workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ship real engineering work every week in the same codebase.
• Train and certify engineers on new workflows.
• Optimize day-to-day engineering and develop custom skills.

Skills

Agentic development fluency

AI fluency with judgment

Public signal

Current individual shipping record

Leveling instinct

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Postgres

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Tern is seeking a Staff Engineer for R&D AI Tooling to reshape the travel industry through agentic development. This role involves shipping real engineering work weekly while building the tooling and workflows that enhance team performance.

As part of a mission-driven team, you'll work closely with a supportive environment that values creativity, curiosity, and operational excellence. Enjoy a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.