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Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation

Coalition · Any location, United States · On-site

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About Coalition

Protect your business from evolving AI threats. Coalition combines comprehensive cyber insurance + AI coverage, with proactive security services to manage digital risk. Backed by Index and Felicis.

About the role

Coalition is building an AI Automation team to eliminate manual work and improve how teams across the company operate. As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation, you will lead the design and delivery of reliable, production-grade AI agents and workflows that solve meaningful business problems. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including substantial recent experience building and shipping LLM-backed applications used by real users
  • Demonstrated experience taking AI agents or multi-step automation workflows from prototype through reliable production operation
  • Strong Python engineering skills and practical SQL expertise, including the ability to work directly with production data models
  • Deep experience with prompting, tool use, agentic loops, structured outputs, multi-step workflows, error handling, and production deployment
  • Experience designing and operating systems that integrate with business-critical systems of record
  • Strong judgment around evaluation methodology, reliability, safety controls, and the tradeoffs required to deploy AI systems responsibly
More about this role

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

Coalition is building an AI Automation team to eliminate manual work and improve how teams across the company operate. As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Automation, you will lead the design and delivery of reliable, production-grade AI agents and workflows that solve meaningful business problems.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for an AI-native engineer who can move from ambiguous business problems to durable technical solutions. You will work closely with internal operators, product and data partners, and engineering teams to understand complex processes, develop reusable agent capabilities, and establish the technical patterns that allow AI automation to scale safely across Coalition.

You will balance rapid experimentation with strong engineering judgment. You will define system architecture,...

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