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Staff Engineer - AI Productivity

Hightouch is a Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP) that empowers companies to activate their data warehouse to power personalized marketing and business operations.

Hightouch

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 180k-320k USD

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About Hightouch

Hightouch is the modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams. Our AI agents reimagine marketing workflows, allowing marketers to create content, plan campaigns, and execute strategies with transformational velocity and performance.

Hightouch is a rare company built on the intersection of two fundamental technological shifts: advances in LLMs and agentic AI, and the creation and rapid adoption of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks. Building on these tailwinds, we’ve become a leader in AI marketing and partner with industry leaders like Domino’s, Chime, Spotify, Ramp, Whoop, Grammarly, and over 1000 others.

Our team focuses on making a meaningful impact for our customers. We approach challenges with first-principles thinking, move quickly and efficiently, and treat each other with compassion and kindness. We look for team members who are strong communicators, have a growth mindset, and are motivated and persistent in achieving our goals.

About Hightouch

Hightouch is the modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams. Our AI agents reimagine marketing workflows, allowing marketers to create content, plan campaigns, and execute strategies with transformational velocity and performance.

Hightouch is a rare company built on the intersection of two fundamental technological shifts: advances in LLMs and agentic AI, and the creation and rapid adoption of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks. Building on these tailwinds, we’ve become a leader in AI marketing and partner with industry leaders like Domino’s, Chime, Spotify, Ramp, Whoop, Grammarly, and over 1000 others.

Our team focuses on making a meaningful impact for our customers. We approach challenges with first-principles thinking, move quickly and efficiently, and treat each other with compassion and kindness. We look for team members who are strong communicators, have a growth mindset, and are motivated and persistent in achieving our goals.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff AI Productivity Engineer to accelerate how our engineering organization works with AI coding tools. This is a hands-on technical role focused on building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation that makes AI agents dramatically more effective across our codebase.

AI tools are evolving rapidly, and we believe the companies that invest in making agents truly productive - not just available - will have a significant advantage. You'll own this problem end-to-end: from setting up cloud development environments where agents can run autonomously, to building MCP integrations that give agents access to our internal systems, to creating the documentation and context that helps agents understand how we build software.

You’ll have the hands-on acumen to do a lot of the heavy lifting yourself and the leadership skills to drive cross-team efforts to raise the bar everywhere. This role is a companion role to our Developer Productivity role but has a distinct focus: while Dev Productivity owns the build/test/deploy pipeline, you'll own the AI-assisted development experience. An exceptional candidate could wear both hats.

Some of the problems we’ll be working on include:

  • Own the agentic development environment: Ensure agents can operate in independent cloud-based development environments, execute our full test suites, examine build results visually, etc
  • Build our tooling integrations: Build MCP server integrations that connect our agents to the systems needed to build and debug software, such as CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, Github, etc
  • Documentation and context: Own our repo-wide agents.md file and work with teams to ensure our library of agent guidance and skills is continually pushing the bar. Ensure our conventions and package structures are exposed in ways that agents can effectively use
  • Enablement: Work with our engineers to understand where agents are struggling and address root causes such as better docs, tooling access, etc. Develop tooling for non-engineers to make simple visual updates to our application
  • Serve as a “PM” for internal AI agents: Consistently keep us on the leading edge of AI productivity trends by staying abreast of what is state-of-the-art in industry and driving those improvements across Hightouch

We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above. This is a senior role, but we focus on impact and potential for growth more than years of experience. The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $320,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.

About You

You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers. You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Must have

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can dive into complex backend code and understand it quickly
  • Deep hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or similar)
  • Experience writing effective agent documentation, custom instructions, or context files that meaningfully improved agent output
  • Track record of building developer tools or infrastructure that other engineers actually use
  • Comfortable working across the stack: you'll touch CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code

Nice to have

  • Experience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrations
  • Background in developer productivity, platform engineering, or developer experience roles
  • Experience with our stack: TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL
  • You've set up sandboxed or containerized development environments at scale

Interview Process

Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit. We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions! Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate. We don’t ask you to write code to solve technical brainteasers that don’t appear in your day to day job.

  • Recruiter Screen [30m]: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
  • System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
  • AI Skills Interview [60m]: We’ll dive into how you leverage AI and how you’ve helped others do the same
  • Hiring Manager Interview [45m]: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles
  • System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical

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Salary: 180k-320k USD

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We're Hightouch, and we're on a mission to make the best customer data technology in the world available to every enterprise. We were founded by engineers who, after years of working with customer data platforms and AI, saw the transformative impact of enabling business and marketing teams to activate customer data. However, they also recognized the limitations of existing rigid tools like legacy Customer Data Platforms. By building a platform that sits on top of an organization's existing data infrastructure, our founders knew that teams could unlock a more performant, flexible, and secure solution to activating customer data at scale — and thus, Hightouch was born.

Our Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP) empowers companies to activate their data warehouse to power personalized marketing and business operations. We enable anyone to deliver personalized customer experiences, optimize performance marketing, and move faster by leveraging data and AI across their organization. With Hightouch, you can use your data warehouse to power business growth. Enterprises use our platform to collect behavioral events, resolve identities into Customer 360 profiles, build audiences, sync data to over 200 destinations like ad platforms and CRMs, and analyze the results of marketing campaigns. We've built a product that can handle the scale of the largest enterprises' most intense customer data use cases. Now, we are dedicated to helping enterprises around the world leverage the most innovative technologies in AI and customer data to grow their business. We believe in a future where marketers can break free from manual work, using AI to achieve 1:1 personalization by simply setting goals and letting AI agents decide the next best action for each individual customer.

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