AI Engineer, Developer Experience

Overview About Retool: Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling customer support workflows, and building admin dashboards. AI is redefining what it means to build software—and who gets to build it. At Retool, we’re building the first enterprise AppGen platform that transforms natural language into production-ready code, integrates directly with business data, and enforces enterprise policies automatically. Over 100 million hours of work have been automated by developers and domain experts using our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic initiatives. Let’s build the future together! WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU: The internal Developer Experience (DevX) team at Retool is evolving how engineering works within Retool. We’re hiring AI DevX Engineers to push the boundaries of what Retool engineers can do with LLMs. If you’re passionate about building bespoke AI experiences for engineering teams—fast, reliable, and powerful—we want to talk. What You’ll Do As an AI DevX Engineer, you’ll work across product and infrastructure layers to ship internal-facing AI software that is powerful and reliable. You’ll build tools that are intelligent, fast, and deeply embedded into the entire lifecycle of software development, with the context and access to give engineers superpowers for tasks from writing code to responding to incidents. You’ll also build AI tools capable of autonomously driving toil management, such as fixing brittle tests, cleaning up old code, and updating stale documentation. In short, you’ll enable engineers — including yourself — to focus on real innovation. Build internal developer-facing AI tools and agents that are intelligent, fast, and deeply embedded into the software development lifecycle Create autonomous, resilient agents and evaluation frameworks to power an AI-driven software factory Drive context engineering that keeps AI-legible code, skills, and documentation reliable as the codebase moves fast beneath it Improve the performance, observability, and safety of the model architecture behind our internal AI tools Define and champion the workflows that maximize AI efficiency and accuracy across the organization Design processes for AI to evaluate and improve the state of code quality, test coverage, documentation freshness, and other toil Shape a model of AI-driven work where agents begin to own initiatives, proactively asking engineers for direction when greater judgment is required Who You’ll Work With You’ll join a team of engineers working across the broad surface of developer experience and release engineering. You’ll also partner with leaders and AI power users across the organization, incorporating their feedback into the development process and training them on workflows that will make them effective. This is a high impact role where you’ll be part of defining what an AI-native development environment looks like, and building the infrastructure, processes, training, and guardrails that make it a reality. You’ll be identifying and solving hard problems in a low-hierarchy organization where ambition is met with support, not gatekeeping. The Skillset You’ll Bring A track record of building and shipping real tools or pipelines—not just models or papers An eye for developer experience: you care how tools work and how they feel to use Experience integrating LLMs into development tools in impactful ways Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure that improves engineering productivity Excitement to have AI as a core collaborator in the development lifecycle A pragmatic mindset about what’s scalable and maintainable Strong opinions, weakly held—you move quickly but bring others along Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is $154,600 – $315,000 per year. For candidates in the United States, pay and benefits include equity and/or commissions where applicable, and a comprehensive benefits plan (medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)). Retool provides hybrid work arrangements and reserves the right to modify pay and benefits terms in accordance with applicable plans. This job posting may reflect multiple career levels and will be refined during the interview process based on factors such as scope, responsibilities, experience, qualifications, and location. Additional compensation in the form of equity and/or commission is dependent on the position offered. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations. #J-18808-Ljbffr Retool