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In your role, you’ll find opportunities for enhancing efficiency and productivity by looking for workflows which can be executed 10-100x faster or more often than a human team could using AI agents, integrations and other patterns. You will build, deploy, and run them in production.\nYou report into the central AI & Automation team, partner directly with domain leadership on priorities, and bring patterns back so the whole company compounds.\nFind the leverage in your domain\nMap the workflows in your domain - the ones running today, and the ones that don’t exist yet because they weren’t feasible without agents or automation tools.\nIdentify the step-change opportunities: where AI, ML, or automation unlock throughput, coverage, or speed.\nBuild the business case, quantify projected impact, and align with domain leadership on priorities. \nDesign the future-state workflow\nMap structured and unstructured data flows across the systems involved (CRM, ERP, ticketing, document stores, internal tools, external SaaS).\nDefine the target workflow: what the agent does, what the human does, and where they hand off.\nFigure out what context the agent or model needs to do the work well - and how to get it there reliably (retrieval, grounding, tool access, memory).\nDesign human-in-the-loop checkpoints so review adds value without becoming the bottleneck.\nBuild and connect the systems\nStand up agents and automation pipelines using the organization’s approved AI platforms and frameworks.\nConnect agents to business systems - via MCP servers, APIs, webhooks, CLIs, and skills - within the guardrails set by IT and security.\nConfigure tools, prompts, context, and retrieval pipelines so agents perform reliably on real work, not just in demos.\nHandle integration gnarliness: auth, schema drift, rate limits, data quality, and the messy last-mile of enterprise systems.\nEnable access and training for business to run the workflows\nRun agents and automation pipelines in production\nOwn agent performance end-to-end. Track the KPIs that matter - throughput, quality, cost, human intervention rate, cycle time, adoption.\nBuild and manage evals. Re-run them on any material model, data, or workflow change before it ships.\nTriage failures, tune prompts and context, iterate on the workflow, and retire agents when they’re no longer the right tool.\nInstrument observability: tracing, structured logs, dashboards. You don’t ship what you can’t see.\nWhat we’re looking for\nHands-on technical fluency. CLIs, APIs, webhooks, SQL, and Python scripting. Working knowledge of LLM and agent behavior - prompting, context, tool use, RAG, MCP, evals, failure modes. Be very comfortable with a cloud platform.\nTrustworthy with elevated access. Least-privilege, auditability, and safe rollbacks are second nature.\nStrong technical and process judgment. You think in outcomes and KPIs, can defend prioritization calls, and are comfortable being the most technical person in a business meeting and the most business-savvy in a technical one.\nNice to have\nPrior experience working hand in hand with businesses to deliver measurable outcomes.\nHands-on experience with an enterprise agentic platform (CrewAI, LangChain, AWS Bedrock, Claude, Codex) or building directly against a model API.\nBackground in product management, solutions engineering, consulting, forward-deployed engineering, or technical operations.\nExperience in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, GxP, SOX).\nSuccess in year one\nShipped three or more workflows into production that are measurably moving a business KPI, with agent evals and observability in place.\nDomain leadership brings you into planning early, not late.\nContributed at least one reusable asset another engineer on the team is now using.\nEnabling non builders to become builders using the artifacts you created.\nCompensation Ranges:\nThe base salary range for standard cost of living areas is: $152,100-$190,100\nHigher cost of living areas: $167,300 - $209,100\nLower cost of living areas: $136,900-$171,100\nAdditional components such as bonus and equity are also included in this role.\nThe pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.\nRemote USA\n$152,100—$190,100 USD\nOUR OPPORTUNITY\nNatera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.\nThe Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nCompetitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!\nFor more information, visit www.natera.com.\nNatera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.\nAll qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. \nLink: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/\nPlease be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. 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