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Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$196k - $245kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff R&D Software Engineer to join the Fivetran AI team, building the governed context layer for AI agents, with scope across research, prototyping, production software, SRE, QA, and mentoring in a hybrid New York, NY role.

Responsibilities

  • Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and decide what’s worth pursuing for Fivetran AI’s roadmap — then convince others
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, then turn proven ideas into shipped, production-grade features
  • Define technical direction that spans multiple teams within Fivetran AI
  • Build and maintain back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
  • Drive the AISQL capability forward: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
  • Take ownership of production reliability across the platform: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work
  • Set the bar for testing and QA practices, and perform hands-on QA when needed
  • Use coding agents to automate repetitive tasks
  • Take high-level direction and independently define and execute concrete plans
  • Mentor other engineers and raise the technical bar across the Fivetran AI team
  • Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java
  • Trusted expert beyond own team with ability to influence multiple teams
  • Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning findings into prototypes and production systems
  • Strong product and market awareness to judge which techniques are worth building
  • Track record of translating high-level direction into concrete work autonomously
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, QA
  • Writes well-structured, performant code and can navigate unfamiliar codebases
  • Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence decisions beyond own team
  • Thrives in a startup-like environment with ownership and shifting priorities

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQL
Nice to have:Front-end (React/TypeScript)SRE / QA practices

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time off / flexible/unlimited vacation where applicable, plus sick time and holidays
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to mental health support platform for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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