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.

What Youll Do

As an AI Automation Engineer you will help shape how work is automated orchestrated and continuously 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 is a full-time role with Avalara offering a fully remote work arrangement across the United States.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• 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 and resilient 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 alerting 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

What Youll Need to be Successful

• 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.

Pay Range Details

The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may bedifferent in other locations.

Colorado $126000-$201600 (annually)

Washington $126000-$222800 (annually)

California $126000-$244000 (annually)

NYC $139200-$244000(annually)

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. Thesuccessful candidates actual salary/wage may be based on various factors such as geographiclocation candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations. This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance depending on the terms of the applicable plan and the employees role.

Avalara is an AI-first Company

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.

How Well Take Care of You

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.

What You Need To Know About Avalara

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.