AI Automation Engineer V

PLEASE NOTE: Bitovi has been engaged by Avalara to lead initial and technical interviews for this role. While Bitovi will conduct the early rounds the final interview and hiring decision will be made by Avalara directly.

As an AI Automation Engineer you will help shape how work is automated orchestrated and improved across Avalara. You will lead the design and engineering of scalable AI powered automation solutions using n8n as a core orchestration platform to improve productivity quality and operational scale. This is a highly visible individual contributor role that combines hands on engineering platform ownership and technical leadership to accelerate business transformation across the organization. You will partner with teams across Avalara to embed intelligent workflows AI agents and data-driven decisioning into business processes while establishing standards that enable secure reliable and measurable automation. This role reports to the Sr Manager Enterprise Systems.

This is a full-time role with Avalara offering a fully remote work arrangement.

Own and help execute Avalaras enterprise AI automation and transformation strategy with n8n serving as a core workflow orchestration platform

Design and build scalable & secure automation solutions that reduce manual work and improve business process efficiency

Develop AI-enabled workflows intelligent agents and decisioning frameworks that support business transformation across multiple functions

Architect API-first and event-driven integrations that connect enterprise systems automation platforms and AI services

Establish platform standards for development deployment monitoring reliability and governance across automation initiatives.

Define and maintain CI/CD processes environment strategies and release practices that improve automation quality and delivery speed

Create reusable automation frameworks workflow templates prompt patterns and AI agent accelerators that increase consistency and reuse

Implement observability monitoring and performance measurement practices for both traditional and AI-driven workflows.

Lead technical design reviews workflow assessments and post-incident reviews to improve platform reliability and operational excellence

Mentor engineers and implementation partners while promoting best practices for AI automation agent orchestration responsible AI and workflow engineering

Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related field and 10 years of experience in enterprise automation workflow engineering integration engineering or platform architecture

Deep hands-on experience with n8n or Boomi including designing and operating enterprise automation solutions and AI-enabled workflows

Strong expertise in API-first and event-driven architectures REST APIs webhooks OAuth JWT and secure integration practices

Experience implementing CI/CD automation governance observability and reliability practices across enterprise-scale platforms

Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform including AI and machine learning services and large language model integrations

Demonstrated ability to identify high-value AI automation opportunities build AI-enabled solutions responsibly measure business impact influence technical direction and raise engineering standards through mentorship and leadership.

12-Month Success Signals

Within the first 12 months this role will have:

Enabled AI-native automation capabilities including production-grade AI agents integrated into core workflows

Improved automation reliability and reduced workflow failure rates and/or MTTR

Standardized automation patterns including AI-enabled orchestration patterns adopted across new transformation initiatives

Implemented measurable observability including AI performance business impact and cost metrics

Delivered AI-driven automation use cases that reduce manual effort improve decision-making or shorten process cycle time across multiple functions

Raised execution standards across the automation team through mentorship technical leadership and AI capability development

Avalara is an AI-first Company AI Expectations

As an AI-first company Avalara expects this role to embed AI into how automation and transformation work is designed and executed.

This role will:

Design and implement AI-enabled workflows and transformation patterns that materially improve speed automation and scale

Use AI tools to optimize development productivity workflow diagnostics process analysis and root-cause investigation

Identify high-value AI automation opportunities tied to efficiency reliability employee experience or customer impact

Apply AI responsibly with appropriate governance security and risk considerations

Elevate AI capability across the automation team by sharing best practices and driving measurable adoption This role must demonstrate applied AI impact not casual tool usage and measure improvements enabled by AI-driven automation and transformation.

AI is embedded in our workflows decision-making and products. Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

• Youll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies ready to thrive here.

• Youll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency contributing solutions and driving results for your team our company and our customers.

• Youll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package paid time off and paid parental leave many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical life and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity equity and inclusion and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Were defining the relationship between tax and tech.

Weve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - were a billion dollar business - and were not slowing down until weve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

Were bright innovative and disruptive like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture weve designed that empowers our people to win. Weve been different from day one. Join us and your career will be too.

Were An Equal Opportunity Employer

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company we dont want people to fit into our culture but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion age gender national orientation disability sexual orientation US Veteran status or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know.