Fivetran 07/21/2026

Senior R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

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USA - Austin (dbt)

Responsibilities

  • 01Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and evaluate what's actually relevant to Fivetran AI's roadmap
  • 02Prototype new ideas quickly, then take the ones that prove out and turn them into shipped, production-grade features
  • 03Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
  • 04Contribute to the AISQL capability: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
  • 05Take ownership of production reliability: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work to keep the platform trustworthy at scale
  • 06Write and maintain tests, and do hands-on QA to catch issues before customers do
  • 07Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
  • 08Partner with product and design, bringing your own understanding of the AI tooling market to shape what gets built next
  • 09Develop software designs and contribute to the technical roadmap for the Fivetran AI platform
  • 10Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Requirements

  • 015+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
  • 02Considered a trusted expert in your subject area, capable of executing complex, ambiguous tasks with minimal hand-holding
  • 03Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning promising findings into working prototypes
  • 04Strong product and market awareness — able to judge what ideas are worth pursuing

What we offer

  • 01This is a full-time hybrid position based out of our Austin, TX office
  • 02Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team