Software Engineer, AI Productivity

The role

You will build and roll out tools that help the company use AI effectively. You will work with engineering, research, operations, and people teams to create reliable internal tools and workflows.

What you will do

• Identify where AI tools can improve velocity and build or integrate solutions.
• Build backend services, scripts, workflows, user interfaces, LLM integrations, and agent infrastructure.
• Own workflows for cloud agents, agent management, and internal automation.
• Help engineers use AI to write, test, debug, review, and validate code.
• Empower researchers to extract signals and iterate quickly.
• Build tools for operations and recruiting workflows.
• Create playbooks, examples, onboarding, office hours, and demos.
• Partner on security and data access.
• Evaluate commercial tools and recommend what to adopt.
• Define success metrics for adoption, productivity, and satisfaction.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship quickly.
• Deep excitement about AI tools and strong opinions about how they should be used.
• Hands-on fluency with AI coding workflows and modern LLM-based tools.
• Technical flexibility to build backend services, internal tools, integrations, automation, and user interfaces.
• Strong product judgment and taste for developer experience and internal tooling.
• High empathy and excitement to work across engineering, research, operations, recruiting, and other teams.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and operate across many technical domains.
• Good judgment around security, permissions, data access, and safe tool rollout.
• Clear communication, documentation, and teaching ability.
• Comfort driving adoption, not just writing code.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer tools, agents, or automation platforms.
• Experience building internal tools specifically for research, robotics, or operationally-intensive problems.
• Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, and Kubernetes.

About the company

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. They are developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices.