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This role will create automated PR reviewers, code-quality gates, test-generation capabilities, and codebase-aware agents, integrating them directly into Slack, Git, CI/CD, IDEs, and internal engineering workflows.\nThis lead-level engineer will help set the technical direction for AI-enabled developer tooling while ensuring solutions are reliable, secure, measurable, and widely adopted. If you combine strong software engineering and system-design experience with hands-on AI expertise and a passion for reducing developer toil, we’d love to welcome you aboard.\nWhat You Will Do\nBuild and launch AI-powered developer tools that engineers use every day, including automated PR review, code-quality gates, test generation, and codebase-aware agents.\n\nIntegrate these tools into Slack, Git, CI/CD, IDE, and internal platform workflows so code moves from development to production faster without lowering quality or security.\n\nMeasure adoption, cycle time, review load, and defects; establish benchmarks and AI evaluation frameworks to assess quality and impact, using data and developer feedback to reduce toil and continuously improve the developer experience.\n\nExpectations of Your Experience\nRequired Qualifications:\nLead-level software engineering and system design with 8+ years of professional experience building production services, internal platforms, or developer tooling, with strong ownership of architecture, reliability, and technical direction.\n\nAdvanced proficiency in Python and working proficiency in at least one additional language such as TypeScript/JavaScript or Go.\n\nExperience building CI/CD integrations, PR bots and status checks, CLIs, code-analysis pipelines, IDE integrations, or internal developer platforms - not only using AI tools as an end user.\n\nAdvanced proficiency with the use of containers - Docker and Kubernetes experience.\n\nLLM and agent engineering with hands-on experience with prompt and context engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, RAG over codebases, agent workflows, evaluation harnesses, and productionizing AI features.\n\nStrong knowledge of GitHub or GitLab APIs, webhooks, branch protection, required checks, custom review comments, risk scoring, and merge policies.\n\nExperience combining linting, static analysis, automated testing, changed-code coverage, security scanning, and merge blocking into reliable delivery workflows.\n\nExperience in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing; AI-assisted test generation; test-data creation; coverage strategy; flaky-test management; and dependable CI integration.\n\nCode quality and application security tooling: Practical experience with tools such as SonarQube, Semgrep, CodeQL, ESLint, Ruff, SAST, dependency scanning, secret detection, supply-chain controls, and policy-as-code.\n\nAI evaluation, guardrails, and observability: Ability to build regression suites, model-output quality measures, human-review paths, logging, metrics, tracing, and failure-analysis workflows for AI-powered systems.\n\nImpact measurement and technical tool evaluation: Ability to instrument cycle time, review load, defect rates, AI adoption, and developer satisfaction; assess commercial tools; make build-versus-buy decisions; and turn results into priorities and ROI.\n\nSystems and product thinking for internal customers - treats other engineers as the product’s users; drives adoption, gathers feedback, iterates, and balances speed vs. Safety/governance.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDirect experience with AI code review or agentic coding tools in production (CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot, GitHub Copilot code review, Qodo/PR-Agent, Anthropic Code Review, or similar).\n\nPractical use of agent frameworks or orchestration tools (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or custom agent loops).\n\nExperience with risk-based or policy-driven automation (auto-approving low-risk PRs, severity scoring, or policy-as-code).\n\nFamiliarity with observability for developer tools and AI systems (logging, metrics, tracing of AI review outcomes, evaluation dashboards).\n\nPrior work measuring developer productivity or DevEx impact (cycle time, review load, AI adoption metrics, or DORA-related instrumentation).\n\nExperience operating in regulated or high-compliance environments (security review processes, auditability of AI decisions, or governance of AI-generated code).\n\nKnowledge of large monorepos or multi-language codebases and the unique challenges they create for AI tooling.\n\nMinimal Requirements\n8 Year in technical with a major programming language with a preference to python\n\nMust be using AI in their current role or pet project\n\nWhy You Should Be Excited\n100% company-paid health, dental, vision, life, and short-term disability insurance options\n\nGenerous 401k contribution (not a match)\n\nFlexible PTO + 10 company holidays\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nFantastic company culture\n\nWork on a truly unique, market- defining product\n\nAdditional Information\nAt Nucleus we are committed to achieving excellence in our field by combining diversity, collaboration, teamwork, and pride in our work. 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