AI Automation Engineer Intern

Single Grain•Los Angeles, CA

134d•Hybrid

About The Position

Single Grain is hiring a high agency AI Automation Engineer to increase Revenue Per Employee by building AI powered systems that create nonlinear leverage across the company. This is not a task executor role. This is a leverage role. Your mission is to identify hidden efficiency opportunities, prioritize them based on ROI, and ship production grade AI systems that materially increase capacity without adding headcount. If measurable leverage is not visible by Day 90, the scope or hire is wrong. Single Grain is a fast moving, award winning, AI driven digital marketing agency. We have been helping top brands like Amazon, Uber, and Salesforce grow since 2009. We specialize in Paid Media, SEO, Content Marketing, CRO, and more, powered by a lean, high performing team focused on smart, impactful work. We do not just use AI, we build it. We have created proprietary AI tools including Karrot.ai, an AI powered performance marketing system that generates ads, landing pages, and campaign assets in seconds, and ClickFlow, an AI driven SEO experimentation platform that helps teams identify content opportunities, optimize pages, and increase organic traffic through systematic testing and workflow automation. These tools are not side projects. They are embedded into how we operate and how we serve clients. We practice what we preach. Our podcast has 150 plus million downloads, and more than 193,000 marketers subscribe to our YouTube channel. We move quickly, push hard, and expect a lot from ourselves and each other. AI is not just a tool we use. It is core to how we operate, from creative to strategy to execution. Our long term vision is to build a small but elite team that stays lean, scrappy, and relentlessly focused on tech enabled innovation and measurable business impact. We do not micromanage. We do not hire people who need their hands held. But we do collaborate deeply, give honest feedback, and leave space for mistakes, growth, and iteration. No egos. No fluff. Just people who care about doing great work and supporting each other.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to generate at least $15k to $20k per month in recurring efficiency value in a prior role by Month 4 equivalent
Shipped at least 3 production grade AI or automation systems that delivered measurable business impact
Proven experience orchestrating LLMs, automation tools, APIs, and no code or low code platforms into working systems
Clear documentation habit with SOPs and async training assets
Ability to independently diagnose workflows and propose ROI ranked solutions without being told what to build
Comfort being measured on Revenue Per Employee and annualized efficiency value
High adoption track record with at least 70% usage of systems within 30 days of deployment
High agency systems thinker who rapidly diagnoses inefficiencies and maps processes visually and logically
Thinks in Revenue Per Employee, margin expansion, headcount avoidance, and compounding leverage
Strong ROI based prioritization judgment and ability to distinguish high leverage systems from low value noise
Builder with bias toward shipping fast v1s and iterating in production
Skilled in prompt system design and structured AI workflows
Comfortable asking uncomfortable but productive questions
Influences cross functional teams without formal authority
Handles resistance maturely and drives adoption through clarity and results
Treats AI as infrastructure, not a novelty tool

Nice To Haves

Put “AI is cool” as the first line of your cover letter or subject line, or your application will not be reviewed.

Responsibilities

Shadow all major departments and map the top 10 workflows end to end
Quantify time cost and economic impact of each workflow
Identify the top 5 highest ROI automation opportunities
Present a ranked Automation Opportunity Matrix to the CTO
Prioritize based on revenue impact, margin expansion, and headcount avoidance, not novelty
Ship first automation end to end
Ship 3 to 5 production grade AI automations
Document each automation via SOP and Loom using the Camcorder Method
Demonstrate at least 15 hours per week of recurring time saved
Launch an Automation ROI Tracker dashboard
Establish a clear automation intake and prioritization framework
Achieve at least 70% adoption rate within 30 days of launch for shipped systems
Automate at least 30 to 40% of repetitive internal workflows
Reduce production cycle times by at least 30% in targeted areas
Enable at least one function to increase client capacity without hiring
Build reusable automation templates and internal frameworks
Implement quarterly leverage reporting tied to RPE
Deliver at least $250k in annualized measurable efficiency value
Improve Revenue Per Employee by at least 30%
Create an internal automation architecture layer
Build a self serve automation request and ROI ranking system
Institutionalize an ROI first automation culture across teams