Altruist

Customer Success Automation Engineer

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3 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and iterate on AI agents and applications for internal Customer Success workflows and customer-facing onboarding, self-service support, and proactive engagement.
  • Scope and prioritize requests by identifying the highest-leverage opportunities.
  • Use customer feedback and real-world interaction patterns to improve internal tools and customer experiences.
  • Define success metrics, track adoption and outcomes, and validate business impact with data.
  • Evaluate cost-to-serve, efficiency tradeoffs, ROI, LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and third-party tools when making technical decisions.
  • Write clean, maintainable code and ship quickly while maintaining reliability and quality.
  • Partner with DevOps and Security to deploy reliable AI applications that meet security, compliance, and infrastructure standards.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success leadership and frontline teams to translate pain points into solutions.
  • Drive adoption through demos and training, and establish best practices, playbooks, and documentation.

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language, with Python preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source models.
  • Experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or similar.
  • Practical knowledge of prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and evaluating AI tools and models for cost, latency, accuracy, and maintainability.
  • Strong familiarity with APIs, webhooks, integration patterns, messy real-world data, and reliable data pipelines.
  • Experience with CRM platforms, especially Salesforce, Service Cloud, or Experience Cloud, or the ability to ramp up quickly.
  • Salesforce experience with Apex, Flow, or Salesforce APIs is a strong bonus.
  • Ability to prioritize high-leverage opportunities, define success metrics, reason about ROI and cost-to-serve, and own outcomes.
  • Self-directed, proactive, product-minded, customer-focused, and comfortable operating through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule requiring three days per week in the San Francisco, Culver City, or Dallas office.
  • Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans, including HMO and PPO options.
  • 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
  • Professional growth opportunities, including an employee mobility program and annual learning and development budget.
  • Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel.
  • Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparedness.
  • One month work-from-anywhere policy, with some country exceptions.
  • Equity and competitive benefits are available for eligible positions.

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About Altruist

201-500 employees

Altruist builds a custodian and wealth management platform for independent registered investment advisors, combining account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting in one system. The company generates revenue as a brokerage custodian and through advisor software and services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Culver City, California, it is privately held and serves RIAs across the United States.

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