AI Innovation Engineer

As AI Innovation Engineer at 829, you'll work across the organization — partnering with VPs, directors, sales leadership, and subject matter experts — to drive operational excellence through AI-native tools and workflows. Your work directly impacts the team's ability to deliver cutting-edge services to clients, building technology with real impact internally and externally.

This is not a traditional AI strategy role.

You'll write Python, build agentic workflows, ship MCP integrations, and use coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) as daily workflow. We're hiring a builder/coach who ships production AI work and earns adoption from subject matter experts. We are not hiring a strategist who delegates implementation, an AI evangelist without an operating record, or a researcher whose work doesn't practically reach the operating teams that need it.

This is a foundational role reporting directly to the President/COO. You'll have autonomy on execution, ownership of 829's AI stack and skill library, and workflow architecture. You must be comfortable being scrappy, resourceful, and hands-on, while also operating cross-functionally to influence the broader organization.

What Success Looks Like

6 Months

• You’ve established a draft playbook around agentic workflow development inclusive of testing, implementation and adoption.
• You’ve successfully crafted 3 - 5 workflows that have met adoption criteria.
• You are able to quantify the success of 1 - 2 workflows through quantitative and qualitative data.
• You have crafted a system to catalogue workflows, skills, and AI tools that enables shorter time-to-value and reduces sprawl.
• Your peers, colleagues and 829’s Leadership Team regularly seek your counsel in relation to AI Service Enablement.

12 Months

• You have a pressure-tested playbook that details the agentic workflow implementation process and ongoing management.
• You have established a framework for