Senior Guardrail Engineer

About the job

The Opportunity A fast-growing, venture-backed AI startup is building autonomous AI systems that help businesses automate complex work. With strong early customer traction and recent funding, the company is expanding its team and seeking exceptional talent to help shape the future of AI-powered operations. The Role We're looking for an AI-native engineer to transform how software is built by designing development systems around AI agents from the ground up. You'll create the infrastructure, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and workflows that enable a small engineering team to safely and efficiently manage large-scale AI-generated code. This role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, AI tooling, and platform innovation. Successful internal solutions will help shape future product capabilities. Key Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered development workflows, tooling, and orchestration systems.
• Create context management, evaluation, testing, and review frameworks for AI-generated code.
• Implement security, quality, and compliance guardrails.
• Establish metrics and processes to improve engineering velocity and effectiveness.
• Enable engineers through best practices, training, and adoption of AI tools.
• Partner with leadership to translate successful internal workflows into product features.

What We're Looking For

• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments.
• Highly self-directed and execution-focused.
• Deep hands-on experience with AI and agentic workflows.
• Strong systems thinker with excellent architectural judgment.
• Credible technical partner to senior engineers.
• Comfortable working closely with founders and leadership teams.