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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Systems Engineer - Forward-Deployed Builder - **Company:** AI ACQUISITION CORP. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $144,000.0 - $264,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Zapier, Stripe, Webhooks, Data Pipelines, Web Api - **Published:** June 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c984826782c6de13 ## About the Role Do you have experience in System troubleshooting? ## Description Deconstruct messy real-world workflows - sales ops, marketing ops, product ops, fulfillment, support - into their underlying steps, then build the system that makes them run automatically and correctly. * Build agentic systems that ship value - agents, automations, internal tools, data pipelines, reporting/attribution - that real people and real revenue depend on. * Build product - stand up and rebuild complex products fast (think: an AI app builder, a reporting dashboard, an internal ops platform), making sharp build-vs-buy-vs-reuse calls under a deadline. * Own the unglamorous plumbing - the integrations, the data model, the tracking, the thing that has to actually work - that everything else is gated on. * Reason commercially - figure out why a funnel, campaign, or product isn't working from first principles, and fix the real cause, not the symptom. This is not static work. The systems need someone who keeps improving them - not someone who builds once and walks away. Who you are * You're obsessive in the healthy way. When you get into something you go all the way down - best resources, deepest forums, you can't help it. You have side-builds you're proud of, built because you wanted to, not for a job. * You ship absurdly fast. You build instead of debating. You've turned around things in a day or a weekend that other people quote in months. * You're an agentic-engineering native. You don't just use AI - you build with it at the systems level: agents, memory, tools, orchestration, evals, failure modes. * You see the whole board. You're technical, but you reason about the business and the user too. You can take a fulfillment gap and see the revenue model, not just the bug. * You're right the first time. "Probably fine" isn't in your vocabulary. When you hand something off, it's tested and it works. Someone shouldn't have to check whether your work is 50/50 wrong. * You're high-agency. Drop you a one-line brief and you make sensible decisions, document your assumptions, and ship - you don't wait to be managed. * You can take a punch and throw one. We're blunt. We'll attack your approach hard - because we attack each other's approaches hard, that's how the work gets good. You engage, you defend your thinking with substance, and you bounce back. You can hang in a room with direct Americans, dry British roasting, and EU bluntness without getting precious. * You live in the frontier. Your feed is AI all day. You can name what you started using in the last two weeks and why. * You're intellectually honest. You say "I don't know" instead of bluffing, and you trace problems to root cause instead of grabbing the first plausible answer. Signals we screen for (you don't need all of them - show us the strongest) * Evidence you build things you drive - agents, automations, tools, a product you started, or something significant you initiated and pushed through at a job. This matters more than your résumé or your degree. (Some of the best people here have non-CS backgrounds.) * Hands-on depth with agentic / AI engineering - building with LLMs and agent frameworks, not just prompting a chatbot. * Experience in the info-product, agency, or DTC/GTM world - you understand funnels, offers, paid ads, cold outreach, CRO, or how an agency actually makes money. * GTM engineering / automation - n8n (strongly preferred), or Make/Zapier with genuinely complex builds (branching, error handling, API calls - not 3-step zaps). * Comfort with APIs, webhooks, JSON, and a real coding language (JS/Python/TS). You can read and debug a system, not just generate it. * Bonus: martech / sales-tech depth - CRMs (Close a plus), tracking/attribution, ESP/email systems, Whop/Stripe, multi-tenant platforms. What this role is NOT * Not a prompt-engineer-who-tinkers. We need someone who ships systems real revenue depends on - not someone who plays with AI toys and never lands value. * Not a pure spec-taker. If you can only build exactly what you're told and can't reframe the problem, this isn't it. * Not a manager/coordinator role. This is a hands-on building role - the person who makes the machine actually work. * Not a place that needs all-nighters. We want you thinking at your best. 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