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AI Operations Engineer a new title on company job boards

Engineering · Emerging, unverified · not on Hacker News yet · 5 open roles at 5 companies · median $163k

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Builds and runs the AI agents and automations a company's own teams use, from finance and legal to partnerships, and keeps them working.

New: first seen Aug 2026, job board

Why it exists

Written by rule from our own data

First seen in our data in August 2026, in a company job-board posting from AST SpaceMobile. Today 5 open roles use the title at 5 companies, most of them in data platforms.

  1. PostingThe oldest AI Operations Engineer posting we holdAST SpaceMobile, Aug 2026 · backs: first sighting
  2. PostingAI Operations EngineerCoast, Nov 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title

Where it is posted

Sectors

  • Data platform1
  • Fintech1

Cities

  • New York2
  • Dallas1
  • San Francisco1
  • Boston1
  • Seattle1
  • Palo Alto1

Countries and remote

  • United States4
Remote option0%

Posted pay

Middle half $138k to $165k, median $163k from 4 postings that state a base range (USD a year).

Who is hiring for it

Open postings on their own job boards, read 6h ago
#CompanyOpen roles
1AST SpaceMobileA publicly traded satellite designer and manufacturer based in Midland, Texas, United States.1
2ClickHouseThe real-time analytics database and ClickHouse Cloud.1
3CoastA company hiring most for Product Designer and Full Stack Engineer.1
4CodeRabbitAI code review and change-governance platform for pull requests.1
5RobinhoodAn American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California.1

Open roles

Open role$150k to $180k

AI Operations Engineer

New York, NY

CoastPosting ↗
Open role$140k to $180k

AI Operations Engineer, Americas

SF | Boston

CodeRabbitPosting ↗
Open role$153k to $180k

Senior AI Operations Engineer, Enterprise Tech

Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY

RobinhoodPosting ↗
Open role$110k to $165k

AI Operations Engineer

NAMER and LatAm

ClickHousePosting ↗
Open role

Principal Automation and AI Operations Engineer

Dallas, Texas, United States

AST SpaceMobilePosting ↗
Role
AI Operations EngineerCoastNew York, NY$150k to $180k
AI Operations Engineer, AmericasCodeRabbitSF | Boston$140k to $180k
Senior AI Operations Engineer, Enterprise TechRobinhoodBellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY$153k to $180k
AI Operations EngineerClickHouseNAMER and LatAm$110k to $165k
Principal Automation and AI Operations EngineerAST SpaceMobileDallas, Texas, United States

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About this title

Builds and runs the AI agents and automations a company's own teams use, from finance and legal to partnerships, and keeps them working.

3 open postings titled "AI Operations Engineer - IT/Internal Infrastructure" or close to it at 3 companies (job-board scan, 2026-09-25). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.

Median posted salary $163k from 4 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.