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Staff AI Engineer, Developer Productivity
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Staff Engineer on Oura's AI Transformation team to architect and own the agentic software development pipeline that turns agentic development into the standard way engineers across iOS, Android, backend and AI services ship software.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Set the technical direction for the agentic pipeline: own its architecture, including agent orchestration, context management and tool calling, and improve its reliability, throughput, cost and developer experience across mobile, backend and web repositories; run it unattended where the risk allows
- Close the loop across the SDLC: extend agentic workflows beyond code generation into spec quality checks, test generation, automated review, CI failure triage and repair, release verification, and post-deploy signals
- Prototype fast, then harden: get a new workflow running in days, prove it on real tickets with real squads, and turn what holds up into production infrastructure
- Run AI in production properly: own eval sets, LLM-as-a-judge grading, versioning, tracing and dashboards; track merge rate, rework, time-to-signal, cost per change and escaped defects and make them visible to engineers and leadership
- Make autonomy safe: design sandboxing, permissions, human checkpoints and guardrails proportional to risk, with privacy by design as the default
- Lead AI-native engineering by example: set the bar for AI-augmented engineering across the organization and raise the craft of engineers around you
- Drive adoption with the teams: embed with squads and their AI DRIs, find where the pipeline breaks on real work, fix the system rather than the single output, and turn what works into paved paths, skills, templates and docs
- Partner cross-functionally with platform, developer productivity, security and privacy, AI infrastructure, mobile and backend squads, product and design, and engineering leadership
What we're looking for
- Building and operating production systems that other engineers depend on, including developer tooling, internal platforms, or AI infrastructure at scale
- Built and operated agentic coding workflows or autonomous loops in a real engineering organization, beyond demos: background agents producing PRs, automated review, CI repair, test generation, or similar, with adoption and measured results
- Reason about specification, review, testing, CI/CD, release and operations as one system, and know where the bottleneck moves when code generation gets cheap
- Set direction across teams you don't manage, write the designs others build on, and are trusted with the hard calls on architecture and risk
- Strong on fundamentals: mobile domain or backend APIs, concurrency, distributed systems, testing, debugging and reliability; treat AI output as a draft and can show how you verify it
- Fluency in one domain of backend, iOS, or Android, with a stretch into others; use the tools available to work across platforms and pick up new stacks quickly
- Understand the responsibility of handling sensitive personal data and of giving agents access to real systems, and design for both from the start
- High agency: thrive in ambiguity and shape the requirements yourself through experimentation
- Collaborative and resilient: bring teams along, take feedback from skeptical engineers, share credit, keep going when experiments fail or tooling changes, and communicate clearly with engineers, managers and non-engineering partners
- Existing right to work in the UK; no visa sponsorship available for this role
Nice to have
- Experience with coding agents at depth: skills, MCP servers, hooks, sub-agent orchestration, headless runs
- Built evaluation harnesses or benchmarks for coding agents, or LLM-as-judge grading tied to build and test outcomes
- Experience with sandboxed execution at scale: ephemeral dev environments, VM or container fleets, macOS build infrastructure
- Background in developer productivity measurement (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) and in turning metrics into decisions without turning them into targets
- Shipped to mobile apps or other environments with slow, expensive feedback loops
- Experience in digital health, wearables, MedTech, or other privacy-sensitive or regulated products
- Contributions to open-source AI projects, or a portfolio of projects built on the latest agent capabilities
- Mentored engineers or led an engineering community of practice
Your team
AI Transformation team
A fast-moving, LLM-forward team that prioritizes rapid prototyping, iterative loops and AI-native development, with the speed of a startup and the reach of a product used by millions of members.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- An Oura Ring of your own + employee discounts for friends & family
- Flexible working hours
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
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About Oura
Empowering every person to own their inner potential
Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Mission
To empower every person to own their inner potential.
Key facts
- Digital health, wearables
- Products include the Oura Ring and its connected app
- Used by millions of members
- Every employee has an Oura Ring of their own