AI Engineering Systems Lead
Rootstock Software
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Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and extending the internal engineering infrastructure that allows both human developers and AI agents to ship Salesforce (Apex/LWC) code reliably. Day-to-day work spans autonomous bug-fix pipelines, a root-cause analysis engine, enforced architectural guardrails, CI/CD tooling, and a local test runner — all designed to make correctness structural rather than convention-dependent. It suits a systems-minded engineer with hands-on experience building agentic or AI-assisted development tools.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 31,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 13,100–46,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No explicit years-of-experience requirement is stated at the role level; seniority is inferred from the scope of ownership described (autonomous pipelines, root-cause engine, enforced architecture, guardrails suite) and the expectation of self-directed, frontier-level work.
Compensation is described as base salary + annual bonus + LTIP with level set by experience; no figures are published. Candidates are asked to include their desired salary range in the application.
Java and JavaScript are listed as illustrative examples of 'solid programming fundamentals' with the explicit note that 'strong engineers pick up the rest' — they are treated as a hard gate on general programming competence, with the two named languages as interchangeable evidence of that competence.
Salesforce, Apex, and LWC are explicitly called 'a plus, not a gate' in the posting and are therefore marked as preferred.
The title 'AI Engineering Systems Lead' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal), so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
The role requires US work authorization; visa sponsorship (including H-1B) is not available.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): agentic AI development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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