AI Operations Associate
US$85,000 – US$105,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Oct 2026
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$85,000 – US$105,000 / yr |
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linkAbout Fuel Cycle:
Fuel Cycle empowers leading organizations with agile research solutions that deliver decision-ready insights — fast, flexible, and fully integrated. As a market research disruptor, our AI-powered Insights Platform is built for speed, precision, and scale. With cutting-edge tools and seamless audience connectivity, we help brands ditch the guesswork and make smarter, customer-led decisions at lightning speed.
Why work at Fuel Cycle?
Join a high-growth team where curiosity is valued, ownership is encouraged, and your work drives real-world impact. Whether you’re based at our Los Angeles HQ, New York City hub, working remotely across the U.S., or part of our global team in India, you’ll help shape the future of decision intelligence for some of the world’s most iconic brands.
The Role:
The AI Operations Associate is Fuel Cycle’s AI transformation role, with one mission: make every function in the company AI-native. We start with IT, Services, Sales, and Marketing.
You’ll begin by owning our AI for IT stack. That means deploying agentic workflows across the Service Desk, application management, and cybersecurity operations. You’ll shape the roadmap alongside our Chief AI Officer, then build and ship it.
This is not an IT Operations seat with AI bolted on. You’ll own the shift from manual, hand-offs-between-people workflows to AI-driven pipelines, and you’ll measure and report the business impact of each one.
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If an agent can do the work, you build it. You architect, build, and deploy the replacement.
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If it can’t yet, you make it possible. You fix the underlying data and re-engineer the process until it can.
AI for IT is your starting point, and from day one you’ll work in lockstep with Services, Marketing, and Finance. As our internal playbook matures, your scope grows to HR, Legal, Customer Success, and the rest of the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
IT Operations (Initial focus)
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Own the AI-Native Service Desk & App Automation: Architect and deploy autonomous AI agents capable of resolving IT help desk tickets independently. You will move beyond basic ticket triage to build self-executing agentic workflows for software provisioning, account access management, hardware procurement, and system troubleshooting.
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Ship Autonomous Security & Network Pipelines: Design and deploy end-to-end AI pipelines that automate core cybersecurity operations and infrastructure tasks. This includes agentifying threat detection, anomaly isolation, routine patch management, firewall adjustments, and new user network configurations.