AI Engineering Systems Lead

Role Description

You own the internal systems that let Rootstock engineers — and our agents — ship production Salesforce code fast and ship it correct.

This isn't a greenfield daydream. There's real, running scaffolding for you to take ownership of and extend:

• Autonomous coding pipelines.
• A bugfix pipeline already turns a Jira ticket into a reviewed Apex/LWC pull request, with an observability layer that scores every run. You'll deepen it, widen it to new pipeline types, and raise the bar on how autonomously and reliably it ships.
• A root-cause engine, and the evals that keep it honest.
• One of our most important tools investigates a bug across multiple repos and millions of lines of code to find the actual root cause, grounded in a continuously built specification corpus. Evals run constantly — we pit the current generation against candidate generations and against fixes real engineers actually shipped. You'll own it and keep pushing it forward.
• A 'Constitution' of enforced architecture.
• We maintain foundational architectural decision records that bind every repo, on a single thesis: every principle must have a deterministic enforcement seam — a type, a startup check, a CI test, or a hook — never just a doc. You'll extend this and the runtime that enforces it across the Claude Code session lifecycle.
• TDD tooling that actually changes behavior.
• A local in-memory Apex test runner lets engineers run the red-green-refactor loop without deploying to an org. You'll build the tooling that makes test-first the path of least resistance, for humans and agents alike.
• The guardrails.
• A suite of quality and safety hooks that format, scan, and block bad edits before they land, plus the PR gate that runs the full scanner suite. You'll decide what the next generation looks like.

Qualifications

• A strong systems and types thinker.
• Real fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development.
• Solid programming fundamentals.
• Comfort building developer tooling, CI/CD, and orchestration: hooks, pipelines, observability.
• Salesforce and Apex experience is a plus, not a gate.

Requirements

• You build things for fun.
• You enjoy experiment, trial, failure, and rapid iteration.
• You've built a proof of concept just to test a theory.
• You're a self-directed learner who's eager to leave a real mark on how an organization builds software.

Benefits

• Base salary, annual bonus, and a long-term incentive plan (LTIP).
• Claude license, full access to Salesforce's AI tooling, approved API spend, and budget for local model experimentation.

Company Description

Rootstock brings proven depth in ERP and manufacturing — real products, real customers, decades of hard-won domain knowledge. We're putting that depth behind a clear blueprint for becoming AI Native, with active development underway and the funding to see it through.