AI Automation Engineer (Claude Code)

About You
You are an AI Engineer who turns Claude Code into reliable unattended automation for real engineering teams. You will join the software team of a channel incentive platform company to adapt an existing Jira support triage routine built in Claude Code for another product to a platform of about 70 microservices. You will own the work from discovery to handover. You will partner with a subject matter expert from the platform team and present design alternatives to the clients architect for decision. You are persistent and self-directed and you are comfortable refining a procedure again and again until the output is right.

Note: This position operates under a contractor framework for an initial period of 3 months and requires availability to work on U.S. Eastern Time (ET) starting at 8:00 AM.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field is desired or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 years of professional software development experience including production C# code and reading Framework code.
• 1 year of hands-on experience building LLM agents or automations.
• Proven delivery of Claude skills or Claude Code automations used by a real team.
• Experience designing agents through a written procedure including hard rules investigation steps classification logic and output formats.
• Experience applying least-privilege design to agents with limits enforced in the environment and permissions.
• Experience running scheduled or unattended agents through Claude Code routines or an equivalent scheduler including cloud environments and connectors or MCP servers.
• Hands-on experience with Jira Service Management including JQL saved filters boards the service desk REST API and the difference between internal and customer-visible comments.
• Experience with GitHub workflows including apps branches draft pull requests and code review.
• Ability to read and write production C# code and to read Framework code.
• Ability to read code well enough to trace a feature across microservices.
• SQL skills to read a schema and write scripts that use only existing tables and columns.
• Experience improving prompts from failures by reading session transcripts finding the root cause of a wrong output and changing the procedure.
• Ability to learn a large codebase and a support process on your own with limited time from subject matter experts.
• Sound judgment with customer-facing risk defaulting to internal communication when a public action cannot be undone.
• Comfort proposing options with clear trade-offs and accepting the architects final decision.
• Ability to teach developers who use Claude but have never built a routine.
• Advanced English Proficiency. Strong verbal and written communication skills including technical discussions stakeholder interactions and documentation.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with agent observability evaluation or reliability tools.
• MCP server development experience.
• Experience with support operations or IT service management processes.
• development experience.
• Experience with channel incentive rebate or other financial-flow platforms.
• Anthropic AWS or other AI certifications/

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Run a one-week discovery of the reference routine and its documented gotchas the support queue (board saved filter statuses and ticket types) and the repositories and code paths the routine must read.
• Propose the adapted design covering JQL scope classification rules investigation depth SQL and schema rules internal and public comment rules and permissions and present alternatives to the clients approver for decision.
• Build the routine by writing the prompt as a numbered procedure with hard rules configuring the cloud environment connectors and schedule and keeping the prompt in source control.
• Test the routine by hand on one or two tickets review every comment it posts during the trial and adjust the prompt for each class of mistake keeping a dated record of every change.
• Open draft pull requests only through the routine writing C# code when needed and following the teams standard review and test process.
• Train the platform engineers on how the routine works what its labels mean how to read a session transcript and how to edit the prompt safely.
• Write the maintenance guide and hand over ownership of the routine to a named owner on the platform team.

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About Us

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At Applaudo talented people design build and scale meaningful AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization we collaborate across design development cloud data and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate make decisions and grow.

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Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast take ownership and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally investing in modern ways of working and leading AI-native transformation at scale.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time