Staff AI Experience Engineer - Developer Tools & Standards

Dayforce; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dayforce, a global HCM platform, is hiring a Sr. Principal Software Developer focused on AI Experience. Based in Canada, you will lead architectures and hands-on implementations that scale AI-assisted development across Engineering teams.

You will define context patterns, standards, and workflows for agentic coding tools, while partnering with developers and platform teams to operationalize AI practices, embedding reliability, and delivering measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing practices.
• Experience with prompts, memory/state patterns, and retrieval strategies.
• Ability to define engineering standards and guardrails.
• Experience partnering with development teams to implement shared practices.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve reusable skill design patterns and coding artifact standards that drive AI-assisted development effectiveness across Engineering.
• Define how agent context is structured, scoped, and maintained across repositories and pipelines.
• Design reusable context patterns including prompts, retrieval strategies, memory/state patterns, and tool exposure configurations.
• Establish practical guardrails and standards to reduce failure modes for AI-assisted development.
• Build and maintain reusable AI agent skills, workflows, templates, scaffolding, and guides.
• Define production-readiness standards for reusable skills with contracts and evaluation coverage.
• Partner with development teams to operationalize AI-assisted workflows in repositories and testing practices.
• Establish standards for AI engineering artifacts such as specifications and workflow patterns.
• Define evaluation and adoption criteria for scalable AI engineering capabilities including reliability and maintainability.
• Build data-driven visibility into AI-assisted outcomes and ROI across Engineering.
• Define scalable implementation standards to support adoption.
• Collaborate with platform teams and vendors on tooling integration and evolution.
• Help establish the AI Engineering enablement operating model with priorities and metrics.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML

Agentic coding tools

CI/CD

LLM tooling

Context engineering

Architectural design

Documentation

Job description

Dayforce, a global HCM platform, is hiring a Sr. Principal Software Developer focused on AI Experience. Based in Canada, you will lead architectures and hands-on implementations that scale AI-assisted development across Engineering teams.

You will define context patterns, standards, and workflows for agentic coding tools, while partnering with developers and platform teams to operationalize AI practices, embedding reliability, and delivering measurable ROI.