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Senior R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$174.9k - $209.9kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior R&D Software Engineer to join the Fivetran AI team, building the governed context layer for AI agents, including Agents Schema and Context Builder, with a focus on prototyping, production-ready backend/frontend software, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and evaluate what’s actually relevant to Fivetran AI’s roadmap
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, then take the ones that prove out and turn them into shipped, production-grade features
  • Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
  • Contribute to the AISQL capability: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
  • Take ownership of production reliability: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work to keep the platform trustworthy at scale
  • Write and maintain tests, and do hands-on QA to catch issues before customers do
  • Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
  • Partner with product and design, bringing your own understanding of the AI tooling market to shape what gets built next
  • Develop software designs and contribute to the technical roadmap for the Fivetran AI platform
  • Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
  • Trusted expert in subject area, capable of executing complex, ambiguous tasks with minimal hand-holding
  • Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning promising findings into working prototypes
  • Strong product and market awareness — able to judge which emerging techniques are worth building versus hype
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across the full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA
  • Writes well-structured, performant code and can dive into unfamiliar codebases to suggest improvements
  • Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling to speed up day-to-day engineering work
  • Analytical mindset to identify gaps in existing systems and design practical, pragmatic improvements
  • Thrives in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and a high degree of ownership

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQLFrontend developmentAI tooling / coding agents
Nice to have:SRE / reliability

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away from work (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays)
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Mental health support platform access for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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