BetterUp
AI
SeniorAIAutomationEngineer
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“Senior AI Automation Engineer at BetterUp. Skills: AI Automation Engineering, Agent Engineering, Workflow Automation, System Integration. Embed with HR, Sales, Customer Success, Coach Operations, Legal, and Finance. Understand how people actually work”
What You'll Achieve.
Multiply our team's leverage; Rebuild BetterUp from first principles around what AI makes possible; Ensure durable success for agents; Set the bar for effective, safe and reliable agentic access; Multiply your impact
Industry & Context.
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; Comfort when the problem isn't fully scoped
Hybrid Expectation: work from local office at least 2 days per week (or 8 days per month), Travel up to 25% of the time for client engagements (hybrid role), Travel up to 50% of the time for client engagements and internal BetterUp purposes (remote role), Candidates across the US
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of engineering experience, 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, Full-lifecycle ownership, from the first discovery call to the tenth production bug, Comfort when the problem isn't fully scoped, Preference for finding the right work over waiting for it
Nice to Have
Experience with Claude, Experience with the Anthropic SDK, Experience with MCP, Published work in open-source, write-ups, demos, or conference talks
What You'll Do.
Understand how people actually work
Apply AI to fit the workflow
Reimagine what comes next
Define success metrics
Decide what's worth automating versus redesigning
Build the infrastructure for reliable
Integrate across the systems BetterUp runs on
Set the bar for effective
safe and reliable agentic access
Build reusable skills and tools
Review other builders' integrations
Raise the floor on what non-engineers can ship safely
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Embed with HR, Sales, Customer Success, Coach Operations, Legal, and Finance; Work with peers across every function; Review other builders' integrations; Share patterns
Full Job Description
Let’s face it, a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship. We do. We can’t cram it all in here, but you’ll start noticing it from the first interview. Even our candidate experience is different. And when you get an offer from us (and accept it), you get way more than a paycheck. You get a personal BetterUp Coach, a development plan, a trained and coached manager, the most amazing team you’ve ever met (yes, each with their own personal BetterUp Coach), and most importantly, work that matters. This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience. Frankly, it’s not for everyone. But for people with fire in their belly, it’s a game-changing, career-defining, soul-lifting move. Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career, doing life-changing work in a fun, inventive, soulful culture. If that sounds exciting—and the job description below feels like a fit—we really should start talking. ABOUT THE ROLE 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 ABOUT BETTERUP 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 p
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