AI Automation Engineer

Irvine, CA, CA

$40–$42 Per Hour
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6 days ago

Job Description

Job Title : AI Automation Engineer
Location: Onsite – Irvine, CA (Day 1 Onsite)
Duration: 6 Months

Salary Range: $40.00 - $42.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.

Job Description:
Must-Have Technical/Functional Skills

Must Have 7+ years of Experience in Generative AI.
3+ years of software engineering experience, with solid proficiency in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript.
Hands-on experience building with Claude Code / Claude Skills or an equivalent agentic coding assistant (e.g., OpenAI Codex, Cursor), including the skill/plugin packaging model (SKILL.md-style definitions, front-matter, tool scoping).
Working knowledge of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — building, deploying, and registering MCP servers; comfortable with OAuth/SSO-based auth patterns.
Experience integrating with enterprise SaaS APIs and data sources — Workday, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), Slack — plus strong Excel/spreadsheet automation (formulas, pivots, reconciliation logic).
Understanding of data classification and AI governance concepts (PII handling, RBAC, guardrails) in an enterprise setting.
High discretion with confidential material — org-change plans, headcount, and vendor financials — before they're announced or finalized.
Strong written communication — comfortable working directly with an executive office to scope fast-turnaround, judgment-sensitive asks.

Roles & Responsibilities

Build and maintain Claude Skills/Plugins for Strategy, Portfolio and Governance's recurring deliverables: CW/vendor cost-split analysis (SOW-level $ by support tier, supplier reconciliation to source-of-truth totals), org-change one-pagers, MPR pre-read assembly, AI-adoption reporting, and hiring job description generation.
Automate data pulls and reconciliation from source systems — Workday (org/headcount), ServiceNow SPM/Master Portfolio, CW expense/SOW spreadsheets, and SharePoint/M365 — into standardized Strategy, Portfolio and Governance reporting formats, with built-in checks against known source totals.
Develop and register lightweight MCP server integrations connecting Claude/Claude Code to the systems the Strategy, Portfolio and Governance office relies on day to day (Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint/M365, Slack, Jira/Confluence) via PayPal's Cosmos AI Nexus MCP Hub.
Certify and publish skills/plugins through the Cosmos Skills & Plugin Registry, meeting taxonomy, metadata, and CI compliance-validation requirements.
Apply RBAC and data-handling guardrails correctly given the sensitivity of what flows through these tools — unannounced org changes, headcount/hiring plans, and vendor financials — so nothing is exposed outside a strict need-to-know.
Work directly with Pallavi to translate ad hoc and recurring Strategy, Portfolio and Governance asks into repeatable automation, iterating quickly as reporting needs shift week to week.
Maintain clear documentation for each skill/plugin (purpose, inputs/outputs, data sources, owner) and provide day-two support/maintenance once in production.

Preferred / Nice to Have

Prior exposure to financial/budget analysis, vendor cost reconciliation, or contingent-workforce (SOW) reporting.
Familiarity with data engineering (SQL) and business intelligence tools (Looker, Power BI, Tableau).
Prior work on an internal AI/automation platform team, or with a skill’s/plugin/tool registry and its certification pipeline.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Irvine, CA, CA
Salary	$40–$42 Per Hour

Skills

Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
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Automation Engineeringunmatched
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Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
Cost Analysisunmatched
Documentationunmatched
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Financial Analysisunmatched
Lookerunmatched
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Microsoft Excelunmatched
Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
Microsoft SharePointunmatched
Node.jsunmatched
OAuthunmatched
Pagerunmatched
Power BIunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Reconciliationunmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Requirements Validation/Verificationunmatched
SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
ServiceNowunmatched
Single Sign-On (SSO)unmatched
Slackunmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
Spreadsheetsunmatched
Standards Strategyunmatched
Statement of Work (SOW)unmatched
Tableauunmatched
Taxonomiesunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
Web Client Plug-insunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched

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