{"id":1717549,"url":"https://alion.io/job/smartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach","title":"Request for Proposal: AI Engineering Enablement & Adoption Coach","company":{"id":43157,"name":"SmartLogic","domain":"smartlogic.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/smart-logic","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":126000,"max_usd":263000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":7868},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Elixir","optional":false},{"name":"React Native","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby on Rails","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Ruby","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T19:12:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T21:08:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"About SmartLogic\nSmartLogic is a U.S.-based custom software development consultancy serving clients since 2005. We build and maintain custom web and mobile applications and are looking to intentionally modernize how our engineering team builds software through effective, responsible use of AI-assisted development tools and practices.\nWhat We Are Looking For\nWe are seeking an experienced AI engineering consultant or practitioner to help SmartLogic move from individual, ad hoc AI usage to a more intentional, repeatable, team-wide approach to AI-assisted software development.\nThis is not a management role or an outsourced engineering leadership position. We are looking for someone who can work directly with our Staff Engineers and developers to assess how we work today, identify meaningful opportunities for improvement, and help our team build the skills, standards, and workflows needed to use AI effectively in production software development. This is intended to help upskill our existing staff with modern AI practices.\nBusiness Objective\nOur goal is simple: Build high-quality software faster and better than we can using traditional development methods alone.\nWe believe effective AI adoption can help us:\nIncrease engineering capacity without increasing headcount at the same rate.\nImprove delivery efficiency and project margins.\nReduce writedowns, rework, and avoidable delivery costs.\nKeep our engineering team current and competitive as software development practices evolve.\nCreate consistent, responsible AI practices across project teams.\nWe do not expect a consultant to arrive with a predetermined AI ROI formula. Part of this engagement is helping us establish realistic baselines and determine what measures are actually useful for evaluating improvements in delivery speed, quality, and engineering capacity.\nScope of Work\nWe expect the engagement to include:\nAssess:\nCurrent AI usage, engineering workflows, skill levels, pain points, and opportunities across the team.\nIdentify the highest-value use cases for AI-assisted development within our environment.\nEvaluate AI tools and practices and recommend where SmartLogic should standardize, experiment, or avoid adoption.\nPlan:\nDevelop a practical AI engineering enablement upskill strategy and prioritized roadmap.\nEstablish repeatable practices, standards, playbooks, workflows, or reusable tooling that can be adopted across project teams.\nCoach:\nUpskill developers and Staff Engineers through hands-on application of AI in real development workflows that shows measured efficiencies.\nEnsure AI-assisted development maintains strong engineering standards around architecture, maintainability, testing, code review, security, privacy, and quality.\nMeasure:\nHelp establish appropriate baselines and measures for assessing whether AI adoption is meaningfully improving software delivery profit margin.\nExpected Outcomes\nAt the end of the initial engagement, we want to have:\nA clear understanding of our current AI maturity and highest-value opportunities.\nA prioritized AI adoption roadmap.\nDefined standards and practices for responsible AI-assisted software development.\nDevelopers and Staff Engineers who are more capable and confident using AI effectively in production work.\nRepeatable workflows and practices that extend beyond individual power users.\nA practical approach for evaluating whether these changes are helping us build quality software faster and more efficiently.\nOur Environment\nSmartLogic has 8 engineers, including 2-3 staff engineers, 1 project manager, 1 QA specialist, and 1 designer working across multiple client projects at any given time. Our primary stack is Elixir/Phoenix, with additional work in Ruby on Rails, ReactNative and sometimes Flutter. Current AI usage is individual and uneven.\nClient Work Considerations\nMost of our engineering work happens in client codebases. Client contracts vary in how they permit AI tool usage, and some involve sensitive data, including health information. Any recommended practices must account for client IP, confidentiality obligations, and differing permissions across projects. The selected partner will be required to sign an NDA.\nIdeal Partner\nWe are looking for someone with:\nStaff Engineer-level software engineering depth and judgment. You should be strong enough in traditional software engineering practices to effectively coach experienced Staff Engineers and senior developers, not simply teach AI tools.\nDeep, hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools in real production codebases.\nDemonstrated ability to help engineers use AI without lowering the bar for architecture, maintainability, testing, security, code review, and overall software quality.\nExperience helping engineering teams adopt AI, not simply using it personally.\nExperience developing practical workflows, standards, playbooks, or internal tooling that other engineers actually use.\nStrong understanding of the risks and limitations of AI-generated software, including when AI assistance should not be used.\nExperience evaluating the impact of AI on software delivery without relying solely on superficial adoption metrics.\nStrong coaching and communication skills, including the ability to influence and develop experienced engineers with established technical practices. \nProposal Response\nPlease include:\nRelevant experience helping software engineering teams adopt AI-assisted development.\nExamples of similar engagements and outcomes.\nYour proposed approach for SmartLogic.\nWho would perform the work and their relevant technical background.\nRecommended engagement structure and timeline.\nPricing and payment structure.\nReferences or relevant case studies, if available.\nSubmission Details\nPlease submit proposals as a PDF to Bri Bellavati,  by October 23rd.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5844,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Software","Mobile App Development Services","Web Development Services","Custom Software Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T19:12:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":30,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.528,"p_room":0.578,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/smartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/smartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T22:14:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":36475,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":43157},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=43157"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsmartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsmartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsmartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/smartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsmartlogic-request-for-proposal-ai-engineering-enablement-adoption-coach"}]}