GitLab

AI Engineer

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5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$108k - $130k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose business problems by mapping workflows, identifying constraints, and determining whether AI is appropriate.
  • Own AI initiatives from stakeholder discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
  • Design, develop, and rapidly ship AI-powered solutions focused on measurable business value.
  • Build solutions that reduce bottlenecks, shorten lead times, and increase organizational throughput.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing systems and workflows using APIs, orchestration tools, and AI platforms including GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
  • Use GitLab’s AI offerings as Customer Zero and provide real-world usage feedback to R&D.
  • Partner with stakeholders across functions to clarify constraints, align on outcomes, and bridge technical and non-technical perspectives.
  • Track business metrics, flow metrics, adoption, ROI, and feedback loops to evaluate performance.
  • Evaluate tools, document technical patterns, and create reusable foundations that scale team impact.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or a similar modern scripting language.
  • Production-quality coding, debugging, and end-to-end delivery skills.
  • Practical experience with prompt engineering, context management, multi-turn interactions, and output evaluation.
  • Understanding of model selection, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, context-window trade-offs, and capability-versus-cost decisions.
  • Experience with agentic architecture patterns, tool use, multi-agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop designs, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and production reliability patterns.
  • Hands-on familiarity with models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and open-source alternatives.
  • Ability to design AI safety controls including input validation, output filtering, access controls, prompt-injection defenses, and data-leakage prevention.
  • Experience with enterprise business systems, data models, workflows, and integrations such as Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk, Workato, Relevance AI, and Glean.
  • Ability to own complex initiatives independently from discovery through delivery and define measurable outcomes.
  • Product mindset with experience scoping MVPs, prioritizing, iterating, and considering adoption and user experience.
  • Preferred: experience with the GitLab platform and CI/CD workflows.
  • Preferred: consulting, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical experience.
  • Preferred: familiarity with value stream mapping, flow metrics, or Theory of Constraints thinking.
  • Preferred: experience with n8n, Make, or Workato alongside custom development.
  • Preferred: startup or high-growth company experience.
  • Preferred: mentoring or leading technical projects with junior engineers.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental leave
  • Fully remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Location-based eligibility may apply by country

Tech Stack

Categories

GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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