AI Automation Engineer

About Nova Benefits

Nova Benefits is on a mission to provide the best in class health and wellness benefits for employees in India. We envision that a vast majority of the county's population will get better access to high-quality healthcare through their employers. We are a tech-first company and believe that technology can make this vision a reality by offering a 10x better experience and fixing the broken processes for all stakeholders - Employees, Employers, HR admins, Insurers, and Healthcare providers. At Nova, we're looking to create and own the employee wellness category. In a short span of 5 years , we've built an outstanding team, achieved product-market fit and become the first Insure-tech company to secure an IRDAI Insurance broking license. The difference? We see ourselves in the business of improving employee happiness instead of insurance and as such more an HR Tech company. Nova Benefits is founded by Saransh Garg (IIT Bombay, BCG, Accel, Y-Combinator). We are backed by top global and regional VC's such as Bessemer Venture Partners, SIG, Better Capital, Titan Capital and Multiply Ventures.

About The Role We are looking for an

AI Automation Engineer

to join our product engineering team. This is a new role at Nova — you'll be the person who identifies manual, repetitive, or inefficient processes across the company and builds AI-powered automations to eliminate them. Think of this as a

Solutions Architect meets AI Builder

role. You won't be writing large-scale production code — instead, you'll use automation platforms (n8n, Make, Zapier), AI APIs (OpenAI, Claude), scripting (Python/JS), and internal tools to ship solutions fast. A workflow you build on Monday should be saving someone 5 hours by Friday. You'll work across every team — engineering, ops, customer experience, sales — identifying what can be automated, prototyping it quickly, and getting it into production. You should be obsessed with eliminating toil and building things that work without human babysitting.

Core Responsibilities Identify automation opportunities across departments by embedding with teams, understanding their workflows, and spotting repetitive manual work Design, build, and maintain automation workflows using n8n,

Make.com

, or Zapier Integrate AI/LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) into workflows for intelligent document processing, data extraction, classification, summarization, and decision support Build AI agents and assistants for internal use — bots, data lookup tools, report generators, monitoring alerts Write Python/JavaScript scripts for custom automation logic when no-code tools hit their limits Connect third-party APIs, webhooks, and REST endpoints to orchestrate data flow across multiple internal and external systems Build and maintain internal tools and dashboards using Retool, Windmill, or similar platforms Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines — connecting AI to company knowledge bases and documentation Monitor, debug, and maintain deployed automations — when something breaks, the workflow should self-heal or alert, not silently fail Document every automation: what it does, what triggers it, what breaks it, and how to fix it Train non-technical team members on using the tools and workflows you build Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tools landscape — new models, new platforms, new capabilities — and bring relevant ones into Nova's stack

Experience Minimum 0-2 years

of experience in automation, scripting or AI integration Demonstrable projects or portfolio showing automation workflows you've built — personal projects, freelance work, or internship output all count Prior experience in a startup or fast-paced environment Active user of AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot Has experimented with building AI agents or multi-step AI workflows