Laurel

Staff AI Corporate Engineer

Laurel
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Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$191k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform for creating, testing, and publishing AI agents and automated workflows.
  • Develop self-service tooling, templates, and scaffolding that enable non-engineering teams to deploy AI-powered applications safely.
  • Own AI-agent delivery pipelines and ensure repeatable, auditable, and secure release processes.
  • Build and manage hosting infrastructure for AI-generated and AI-assisted web pages and internal portals.
  • Establish company-wide guardrails for model access, data handling, prompt safety, and output validation.
  • Advise and educate internal teams on responsible AI integration and maintain the company AI standards playbook.
  • Operate central AI infrastructure including usage dashboards, spend tracking, budget alerts, model configuration, API gateway settings, rate limits, and version management.
  • Implement logging, tracing, and cost attribution for AI workloads.
  • Evaluate and onboard AI models, tools, and providers from pilot through production.
  • Design and maintain the MCP server ecosystem for structured tool use and agent-to-service integrations.
  • Partner with business units to identify AI automation opportunities and deliver production-ready tooling.
  • Provide technical support, documentation, training, runbooks, and onboarding guides for internal AI platform users.

Requirements

  • 3–6 years of software engineering experience in a corporate or enterprise environment.
  • Hands-on experience with AI ecosystem enablement, including Claude, OpenAI Codex or GPT APIs, AI agent frameworks, or MCP integrations.
  • Experience building and operating internal developer platforms, software factories, or CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kubernetes or Docker; and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Understanding of API gateway patterns, rate limiting, OAuth2, API keys, and RBAC.
  • Ability to translate security, compliance, and policy requirements into technical controls.
  • Strong communication skills for documentation and presenting technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with Anthropic Claude APIs, Claude.ai for Teams or Enterprise, or Claude-powered agents.
  • Familiarity with MCP server development and agentic tool-use integration patterns.
  • Exposure to AI model lifecycle management, including fine-tuning, evaluation, versioning, and rollback strategies.
  • Experience with Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for LLM and AI service observability.
  • Prior experience as an internal platform or DevOps engineer supporting developer communities.
  • Working knowledge of or willingness to develop expertise in OpenClaw and AI agent orchestration.

Benefits

  • Equity and 401(k) benefits are provided.
  • Bi-annual in-person company off-sites are held in unique locations.
  • The company offers a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are not available.
Laurel

About Laurel

51-200 employees

Laurel is the world’s first AI Time platform for professional services firms. The company's AI transforms how organizations track, analyze, describe, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. By automating work time and connecting time data to business outcomes, Laurel enables firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. Founded in 2018, Laurel serves many of the world's largest accounting, consulting and law firms.