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Senior R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$163.9k - $196.7kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior R&D Software Engineer for the Fivetran AI team, building the governed context layer for AI agents, researching emerging AI techniques, and delivering production-grade software across back-end and front-end systems in a hybrid, Austin-based role.

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 turn the proven ones 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 repetitive parts of the job
  • Partner with product and design 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 between back-end and front-end work
  • Trusted expert capable of executing complex tasks with minimal hand-holding
  • Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning findings into prototypes
  • Strong product and market awareness to judge which techniques are worth building
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA
  • Writes well-structured, performant code and can navigate unfamiliar codebases
  • Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling to speed up engineering work
  • Analytical mindset to identify gaps and design improvements
  • Thrives in a startup-like environment with ownership

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQLFrontend development (React, TypeScript)
Nice to have:SRE / Reliability engineering

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays, Global Week of Rest, volunteer days)
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual events, 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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