AI Solutions Engineer - Agents & Automation
About Us
HeadQuarters is a global start-up that partners with US cannabis companies to provide support in finance, sales operations, and logistics. We are currently seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to join our growing product development team.
The Role
We're hiring an engineer to design and build AI agents and automations for our external customers in the fast growing Cannabis / CPG industry. You'll partner with our team from the first conversation through delivery: understanding a customer's workflows, scoping what an agent should own, building it on top of their systems, and making sure it runs reliably in production. The most important part of this job is learning how a customer's work actually gets done: sitting with their frontline staff, earning their trust, and turning unwritten rules and exceptions into logic a system can follow.
Once an agent is live, you'll hand it off to one of our Operations Managers, who oversee the agent's day-to-day work and output on the customer's behalf.
Every customer runs on a different stack, so this role calls for real engineering depth, and you don't need a long AI resume to have it. We're looking for a strong developer who has recently put LLM-powered workflows into production. Plenty of people can prompt their way to a working prototype. We need someone who can own the code behind it, troubleshoot it inside an unfamiliar environment, and harden it so it holds up long after you've moved on to the next customer.
What You'll Do
Discovery and Scoping (with the AI Sales Lead)Join customer discovery calls to understand their workflows, systems, data, and pain pointsSit with customers' frontline staff to learn how the work actually gets done, capture the rules and exceptions that live in people's heads, and translate them into explicit logicBuild trust with the people whose work you're automating, and treat them as the experts on their processAssess technical feasibility and identify which tasks are good candidates for an agent and where human review should stay in the loopTranslate customer needs into solution designs, effort estimates, and clear scopeBuild proofs of concept and demos that show customers what an agent can do with their own workflowsProvide build and run cost estimates (model usage, infrastructure, maintenance) to support pricing
Build and DeployDesign, build, and deploy AI agents and automations that handle multi-step workflows across customer operationsBuild and configure integrations that link each customer's tools, such as CRMs, ERPs, accounting platforms, email, messaging, and document storage, using APIs where they exist and browser automation where they don'tWrite production-quality Python for integrations, data transformation, and agent toolingUse SQL to validate agent outputs, reconcile records across systems, and measure accuracyBuild error handling, retries, idempotency, logging, alerting, and graceful fallbacks into everything you shipCreate testing and evaluation processes for each agent: test sets, regression checks, and accuracy tracking before go-live and after every changeArchitect deployments so each customer's data, credentials, and permissions stay fully isolated
Handoff and SupportHand off live agents to Operations Managers with runbooks, monitoring dashboards, review queues, and clear escalation pathsTrain Operations Managers to supervise agent output, spot problems early, and handle routine exceptions without engineering helpServe as the technical escalation point when an agent fails or a customer's systems changeUse what you learn from each deployment to build reusable components, templates, and deployment patterns that make the next customer faster to deliverMeasure and report impact for each customer against a baseline: hours saved, turnaround time, error rates, and cost per run
First-Year Mission
Your first year is measured by the operating results customers see, not by how many agents you deliver.Establish a baseline for every customer workflow you take on: hours spent, turnaround time, error rates, and costDeliver measurable, sustained improvements against those baselines for customers across multiple industriesShorten the time from signed agreement to measurable customer resultsHand off agents that Operations Managers run day to day with minimal engineering involvementEarn renewals and expansions because the results hold up over time
RequirementsSeveral years of professional software engineering, solutions engineering, or automation engineering experienceProof of recent production LLM workflows: something you built with Claude, OpenAI, or a similar platform that real users rely onStrong Python: you structure, test, and debug your code, and you understand what AI-generated code is doing before you ship itStrong SQL: joins, CTEs, window functions, and tracking down data quality problemsBrowser automation experience with Playwright or a similar tool, for systems with limited or no APIsSolid experience with REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, pagination, and rate limits across a wide range of third-party platformsA track record of troubleshooting production failures: reading logs and stack traces, isolating root causes, and fixing them permanentlyComfort with Bash and the command line for deployment, scheduling, and debuggingGit and version control as a standard part of how you workWorkflow discovery skills: you can interview the people who do the work, uncover the steps and exceptions they don't think to mention, and turn tacit knowledge into explicit rulesOperator empathy: you build trust with frontline staff, treat them as the experts on their work, and explain technical tradeoffs in plain languageComfort in customer-facing settings: you can run a technical conversation with a customer and push back on scope when neededStrong documentation habits, since the people running your agents day to day won't be engineersNice to HaveExperience with the Claude API, Claude Agent SDK, or Claude CodeWorking proficiency in TypeScript / JavaScript (Node.js)Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), including building or configuring MCP serversExperience building tool-using AI agents that run multi-step workflowsPrior solutions engineering, sales engineering, consulting, or agency experience delivering technical projects for multiple clientsIntegration experience with common business platforms such as Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Microsoft 365, and Google WorkspaceExperience with workflow platforms such as n8n, Make, or Zapier, and good judgment on when a workflow should move from no-code to codeCloud deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and serverless functionsMulti-tenant architecture and familiarity with security reviews, SOC 2, or customer data protection requirementsDocument and data extraction from invoices, PDFs, and spreadsheetsBackground in finance, accounting, or back-office operationsExperience working with distributed, international teams
How We'll Evaluate
We care about what you've actually built and whether you understand it. Expect to:Walk us through an LLM workflow or automation you built and shipped: the architecture, what broke, and how you fixed itComplete a practical exercise debugging and hardening an existing automationTake part in a mock customer discovery conversation, including interviewing a frontline operator about their workflow, then outline how you'd scope, build, and hand off an agent for that customer
Benefits
🌍 Work fully remotely in a flexible and collaborative environment
🤖 Build and apply your AI engineering expertise by designing AI agents and automation solutions for real-world business challenges
💼 Work directly with leading U.S. cannabis companies, helping build solutions that improve how their teams operate and scale
📈 Grow your career through hands-on ownership, exposure to emerging AI technologies, and continuous learning
Our Values
We are guided by curiosity, collaboration, and persistence. We seek to understand deeply, work collectively to solve complex challenges, and remain resilient in pursuit of meaningful, long-term impact. These principles shape how we operate as a team and how we support the success of our clients.
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Looking forward to meeting you!
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