Senior AI Automation Engineer, BetterUp
$165-230k
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AI-driven employee coaching platform
Open for applications
AI-driven employee coaching platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$165-230k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock greater clarity, potential, purpose, and passion for every one of their members, with an innovative approach to coaching and leadership development.
Role
Who you are
- You experiment with new models, agent frameworks, and orchestration patterns on your own time because you can't help it. Claude, the Anthropic SDK, and MCP are already in your toolkit
- Cause you can't help it. Claude, the Anthropic SDK, and MCP are already in your toolkit. You've replaced parts of your own work or life with agents you built yourself, you read model release notes the day they drop, you pay for the tools out of pocket, and you have a strong opinion about why one agent framework beats another for a given problem
- You publish your work where you can: open-source, write-ups, demos, or conference talks
- 7+ years of engineering experience, with a track record of shipping real systems at scale
- The ability to sit with a non-technical operator, understand their actual workflow rather than what they think the solution is, and translate it into a working agent or automation
- A founder's bias for action and a senior engineer's obsession with quality
- Full-lifecycle ownership, from the first discovery call to the tenth production bug
- Comfort when the problem isn't fully scoped, and a preference for finding the right work over waiting for it
- We are dedicated to building diverse teams that fuel an authentic workplace and sense of belonging for each and every employee. We know applying for a job can be intimidating, please don’t hesitate to reach out — we encourage everyone interested in joining us to apply
What the job involves
- This is applied agent engineering: tool-using AI systems built on real business data, embedded in the workflows people live in every day, trusted enough to be part of how the work actually gets done
- This is foundational work. It shapes how BetterUp wins in the AI era, and how many more people grow through what we build
- You'll embed with HR, Sales, Customer Success, Coach Operations, Legal, and Finance to do three things:
- Understand how people actually work, with sufficient detail to build the right solutions
- Apply AI to fit the workflow as it is, not as a redesign would have it
- Reimagine what comes next, once you've earned the team's trust
- We are a company of AI builders. Across every function, people are shipping their own agents, Claude skills, and projects. We have the latitude to act and an explicit push from leadership to do it. This role exists to multiply our team's leverage and to rebuild BetterUp from first principles around what AI makes possible
- The split is roughly 30% product, 70% engineering. On the product side, you'll map workflows, define success metrics, and decide what's worth automating versus what's worth redesigning
- On the engineering side:
- Build the infrastructure for reliable, powerful agents: MCP servers, stateful sub-agents, agent skills, and instrumentation that ensures durable success
- Integrate across the systems BetterUp runs on: Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Okta, Workday, Google Workspace, AWS
- Set the bar for effective, safe and reliable agentic access. This work touches coaching data, employee data, and partner data, and BetterUp is a company built on trust
- Build reusable skills and tools that the rest of the company can leverage
- Multiply your impact: review other builders' integrations, share patterns, raise the floor on what non-engineers can ship safely
Application process
- You'll work inside an AI Transformation team with a clear mandate, real budget, and direct executive support. And you'll work with peers across every function who are just as obsessed and just as capable
- Apply with a link to a portfolio, GitHub, or working agent. Anything that shows what you build when you're not being told what to build
Our take
Companies are becoming increasingly informed regarding the importance of mental health in the workplace, especially in improving the interpersonal and leadership skills of their employees. Whilst many online platforms provide coaching services to help people excel in the workplace, existing options generally focus on career-based skills as opposed to overall mental wellness.
BetterUp connects employees with online career coaches, working directly with companies to improve mental health and enthusiasm in the workplace. The online service leverages AI analysis of questionnaire results to match employees with personalised video coaching sessions and career development services, providing support in areas often neglected by employers, such as sleep, parenting, and overall mental fitness.
BetterUp has seen substantial success and has the world's largest network of coaches (with over 3,000), offering coaching in 46 languages across 90 countries. It's also offering AI coaching to keep pace with digital demand for contextual, tailored insights. The multi-unicorn company has ample opportunity for further growth and expansion.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $579m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid parental leave
- Personalized BetterUp Coach
- $360 each year for wellness programs
- Annual $1K learning and development stipend
- Equity package
- 5 volunteer days and 4 paid Inner Work™ days a year
Company HQ
Govalle, Austin, TX
Leadership
Alexi Robichaux
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Political Science at USC, and then worked in Business Insight at the Walt Disney Company. Was a Product Manager at Socialcast, and Director of Product Management at VMware.
Eduardo Medina
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied Business at USC and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain, and as an Associate at Altamont Capital Partners.
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