Software Engineer - AI Productivity at Hightouch

Hightouch seeks a hands-on technical leader to accelerate AI coding tool adoption within their engineering organization. The role focuses on building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation that maximize agent effectiveness across their codebase.

Key Responsibilities:

Establish cloud-based development environments where AI agents operate autonomously

Create MCP server integrations connecting agents to internal systems (CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, GitHub)

Maintain comprehensive agent guidance documentation and ensure proper code structure exposure

Partner with engineers to identify agent bottlenecks and implement solutions

Stay current with AI productivity trends and drive adoption across the company

Required Qualifications:

Strong backend coding fundamentals

Hands-on experience with AI coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or similar

Demonstrated success writing agent documentation that improved output quality

Track record developing developer tools other engineers actually use

Full-stack comfort: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, tooling, application code

Nice-to-Have: MCP server development, developer productivity background, TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL, large-scale sandboxed environments

Salary: $180,000 - $320,000 USD/year, equity 0.01% - 0.1%

Interview: Recruiter screen, system design, AI skills interview, hiring manager conversation (~4.5 hours total).