Software Delivery & AI Automation Engineer

We’re hiring a Software Delivery & AI Automation Engineer to make Plaquette effortless to build, package, release, and deploy in customer environments, and to multiply our team by eliminating recurring operational work through pragmatic automation (including AI-assisted workflows). This is not an SRE/on-call production role: Plaquette is delivered to customers on-prem as a Python package with C++ simulation backends, and we run minimal hosted infrastructure. Your impact comes from making software delivery reliable, and from building internal tooling that boosts team productivity and saves the team real time. A good fit is someone who enjoys both: • the unglamorous but high-leverage work of build/release engineering and customer installability, and • tinkering with the latest AI tools, e.g. to quickly build small but end-to-end tools that solve real problems. What you will do: • Ship Plaquette reliably to customer environments: - Make builds reproducible and reliable for a Python product with native C++ simulators (toolchains, CI, platform quirks). - Own and improve our packaging/release pipeline (wheels/sdists, versioning, automated checks, release confidence). - Improve developer golden paths: fast local setup, consistent builds, actionable CI failures. - Reduce customer onboarding friction with robust install docs, environment checks, and more. - Make lightweight licensing and auth flows stable and predictable. • Multiply the team with internal AI automation: - Ship small internal apps and workflows that eliminate recurring overhead (e.g., recruiting pipelines, spreadsheet tooling, structured intake forms, internal portals). - AI-powered integrations of tools we use (GitHub, Linear, Google Workspace/CSV exports, etc.) and turn manual glue work into reliable systems. - Create agentic workflows that assist software development and other operational tasks by drafting, reviewing, improving, and suggesting changes, backed by clear completion criteria, traceable logs, and explicit human review checkpoints. - Stay up to date on new LLM models and tooling releases, continuously evaluating them to identify options that could materially improve team speed, quality, or cost.