Gem

AI Engineer, Developer Experience

Gem$154K — $315K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in building and launching tools or pipelines, not limited to just models or papers.
  • Strong focus on developer experience, ensuring tools are functional and user-friendly.
  • Experience with integrating large language models (LLMs) into development tools meaningfully.
  • Background in creating developer tooling or internal platforms that enhance productivity.
  • Enthusiasm for collaboration with AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Pragmatic approach to scalable and maintainable solutions.
  • Ability to express strong opinions while remaining open to others' ideas.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance internal AI tools for developers within the software development lifecycle.
  • Create resilient agents and frameworks for an AI-powered software factory.
  • Engineer context to maintain accurate and relevant AI-generated code and documentation.
  • Boost performance, observability, and safety of the internal AI model architecture.
  • Define workflows to optimize AI efficiency and accuracy organization-wide.
  • Design AI evaluation processes to enhance code quality and reduce technical debt.
  • Establish an AI-driven work model where agents proactively seek engineer guidance when needed.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Hybrid work options available, promoting flexibility.
  • Opportunities for equity or commission-based compensation.
  • Supportive and low-hierarchy work environment that encourages creativity and problem-solving.
Full Job Description
WHAT YOU'LL DO

As an AI DevX Engineer, you'll work across product and infrastructure layers to ship custom, internal-facing AI software that's both powerful and reliable. This means building tools that are intelligent, fast, and deeply embedded into the entire lifecycle of software development. These tools need the context and access to give superpowers to engineers working on any task, from writing code to responding to incidents.

Since human attention is now the critical bottleneck for our engineering work, you'll also be building AI tools that are capable and trustworthy enough to autonomously drive toil management work like fixing brittle tests, cleaning up old code, and updating stale documentation. In short, you'll free our engineers - yourself included - to focus on real innovation.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

  • Build internal developer-facing AI tools and agents that are intelligent, fast, and deeply embedded into the software development lifecycle
  • Create autonomous, resilient agents and evaluation frameworks to power an AI-driven software factory
  • Drive context engineering that keeps AI-legible code, skills, and documentation reliable as the codebase moves fast beneath it
  • Improve the performance, observability, and safety of the model architecture behind our internal AI tools
  • Define and champion the workflows that maximize AI efficiency and accuracy across the organization
  • Design processes for AI to evaluate and improve the state of code quality, test coverage, documentation freshness, and other toil
  • Shape a model of AI-driven work where agents begin to own initiatives, proactively asking engineers for direction when greater judgment is required


WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You'll join a team of engineers working across the broad surface of developer experience and release engineering. You'll also partner with leaders and AI power users across the organization, incorporating their feedback into the development process and training them on workflows that will make them effective.

This is a high impact role where you'll be a part of defining what an AI-native development environment looks like, and building the infrastructure, processes, training, and guardrails that make it a reality. You'll be identifying and solving hard problems in a low-hierarchy organization where ambition is met with support, not gatekeeping.

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING

  • A track record of building and shipping real tools or pipelines-not just models or papers
  • An eye for developer experience: you care how tools work and how they feel to use
  • Experience integrating LLMs into development tools in impactful ways
  • Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure that improves engineering productivity
  • Excitement to have AI as a core collaborator in the development lifecycle
  • A pragmatic mindset about what's scalable and maintainable
  • Strong opinions, weakly held-you move quickly but bring others along


For candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate's experience and qualifications, and location.

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

The base pay range for this role is $154,600 - $315,000 per year.

Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!

Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Gem

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar AI Engineer, Developer Experience jobs: