Lead, AI Engineering & SDLC Automation
Agilent Technologies12 hours ago
Barcelona, Spain or Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$167k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and shape strategy, roadmaps, and delivery approaches for AI engineering and SDLC automation.
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend AI tools, agents, copilots, platforms, and automation opportunities.
- Design and deliver engineering tools, agentic workflows, copilots, and automation that improve developer productivity and software delivery.
- Integrate AI and automation into CI/CD pipelines, developer paved roads, engineering workflows, and platform services.
- Establish governance, evaluation methods, safety guardrails, usage controls, and secure integration patterns for responsible AI use.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives from discovery and experimentation through implementation, adoption, and measurement.
- Build reference implementations, mentor engineers, support technology adoption, and track productivity, quality, reliability, toil-reduction, and developer-experience outcomes.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, developer productivity, workflow automation, SDLC automation, or related areas.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong software engineering experience building integrations, automation, APIs, developer tooling, or platform capabilities.
- Hands-on experience building or integrating AI agents, copilots, LLM-based solutions, agentic workflows, or similar capabilities.
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery, SDLC tooling, developer workflows, and cloud or platform services.
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, including governance, safety guardrails, evaluation methods, usage controls, and secure integration.
- Experience leading technical work across teams through expertise, collaboration, and influence, and helping engineering teams adopt new tools and practices.
- Ability to solve ambiguous engineering problems, communicate complex technical topics, and balance productivity with quality, reliability, security, cost, and responsible AI use.
Benefits
- Full-time role with the option to work remotely.
- Occasional travel may be required, with a day shift schedule and no stated end date.
- Eligible for bonus, stock, and benefits in addition to base pay.
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About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies builds analytical instruments, lab software, diagnostic and genomics solutions, plus consumables and services used by pharmaceutical, chemical, environmental, and clinical labs. It sells systems such as chromatography and mass spectrometry platforms, pathology and molecular diagnostic kits, and supports lab operations through its CrossLab services business. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agilent is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: A) with global manufacturing and R&D sites.