The software industry remains trapped in outdated delivery rhythms. Backlogs expand unchecked, cycle times stretch across weeks, and code review often devolves into perfunctory approval to meet sprint deadlines. Integration risk, fragile architectures, and ambiguous requirements continue to overwhelm most engineering teams. AI coding agents now produce viable code, yet only when provided with exact specifications and closely monitored execution. The default response is still to add more developers rather than redesign the systems that transform requirements into dependable, production-ready software.
Trilogy has chosen a different approach. We operate an agentic development pipeline from start to finish: engineers own research, specification, architecture, and validation, while AI agents execute implementation. Specifications are crafted to be machine-executable by Claude Code, test-driven, and narrowly scoped to contain integration risk. The outcome is continuous shipment of production features with significantly compressed feedback cycles, reduced integration surprises, and elevated confidence in correctness before code reaches the main branch.
This role is designed for the engineer who prefers designing systems and validating correctness over processing tickets. Your time will divide roughly as follows: 1020% conducting research and technical discovery to map existing behavior, constraints, and stakeholder objectives; 4050% translating that knowledge into precise, test-driven, agent-executable specifications and architectural choices; and 4050% orchestrating and supervising implementation. You own what ships: no silent breakage, no vague specifications, no deflecting accountability to the agent.
You'll work alongside a team that regards specification as product output, review as an engineering function, and delivery as the sole meaningful metric. If you're motivated by clean system design, precise scoping, and uncompromising validationand you already integrate tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or ChatGPT into your everyday workflowthis environment will suit you. Bring your architectural judgment, your test-driven development discipline, and your exacting standards for code quality. If this describes you, join us and define the next generation of software delivery. Apply and demonstrate how you direct agents to produce production-grade results at scale.
What You Will Be Doing
- Technical Discovery: Examining existing systems, stakeholder needs, and data sources to map the problem domain and identify technical constraints
- Technical Specification: Translating research outcomes and stakeholder inputs into precise, machine-executable technical specifications tailored for agentic coding assistants (primarily Claude Code) following spec-driven development practices
- AI Implementation: Directing AI coding agents through implementation, performing continuous review and validation of agent-generated code, and merging validated changes into the production codebase
AI Software Engineer Key Responsibilities
- Continuous shipment of production-quality software features and systems through agentic development workflows, in which AI coding agents execute implementation while engineers control specification, architecture, and quality assurance
Basic Requirements
- Minimum 3 years professional software engineering experience in production environments
- Experience participating in pull request review processes
- Experience using AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor) in a professional setting
About Trilogy
Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely new moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today's modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5606-RO-COUNTRY-AISoftwareEngi.004
