# AI Innovation Engineer at 829studios > Remote · region unclear · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3A829studios%3Aa4f08b43-d3ef-429a-b155-3c37681efd3b (read 2026-11-12). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [829studios](https://alderhq.app/companies/829studios) - Location text: Remote - Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · region unclear (evidence: "Remote, region not stated") - Posted: 2026-08-14 (89 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-11 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/829studios/a4f08b43-d3ef-429a-b155-3c37681efd3b - Skills listed (inferred): Python ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $110k–$135k per year (from the listing's pay field) ## Description (the employer's text) 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 evaluating the performance of workflows. You have integrated multiple workflows into a custom frontend in coordination with 829’s Head of Apollo and Engineering Resources. You have supported the growth of the innovation function as a center of excellence and / or an extension of 829’s Data Platform, Apollo. ### Responsibilities and Duties ### Workflow & Agentic Engineering (60%) Architect and build proprietary AI agents and automation workflows. Using company-specific data to drive defensible competitive advantage. Playbook: Develop and manage a playbook that includes discovery, pilot, improvement, implementation, adoption and measurement phases to execute work. Pilots & Proof of Concept: Lead pilots across multiple disciplines to test approaches and technology, using results to inform production workflows and gain buy-in. Integrations & Data Pipelines: Develop and maintain integrations between AI tools and core business systems and advertising platforms, including API builds, validation frameworks, and data pipelines. SME Collaboration: Collaborate closely with subject matter experts to ensure solutions and workflows deliver value, enable team members to produce their best work, are usable, and access that appropriate data. Leadership Collaboration: Collaborate with senior leaders to ensure that workflows accomplish desired strategic and quality objectives. Adoption & Enablement: Ensure that workflows and systems are consistently improved and adopted through systems and cadences that check outputs, measure progress towards goals, and revisit training and adoption mechanisms. ### AI Stack Curation / Governance / Documentation (15%) Own the substrate of 829’s AI Innovation Initiatives. AI Stack Documentation: Build and maintain 829's AI stack — tool inventory, vendor strategy, build-vs-buy posture, integration map, and shared-context architecture. Skill Library: Develop reusable patterns, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations that provide strategic value and compound across workflows. Build vs. Buy: Consult on agency decisions to build workflows and tools vs. buy point solutions to achieve objectives. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3A829studios%3Aa4f08b43-d3ef-429a-b155-3c37681efd3b and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.