AI-Native People Systems Engineer — Equity & Flexible Hours

Nscale; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base + bonus + equity

Dynamic progression plan

Human-First Flexibility

Job summary

Nscale is building an AI-native People function. As a People Systems Engineer, you’ll own design, tooling, and delivery of custom tools and integrations that connect Workday, Greenhouse, and adjacent systems to support a global workforce.

You’ll experiment with frontier AI capabilities, develop agentic workflows, and ensure secure, permission-aware access while collaborating with Security and Corporate Engineering to scale our platform responsibly.

Qualifications

• Track record of independently shipping and supporting custom applications or automation solutions.
• Strong technical skills across application development, APIs, data flows, and automation tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to build production-grade LLM applications and tool-using AI agents, with hands-on experience using integration protocols such as MCP to integrate agents with enterprise systems.
• Practical Workday expertise across integrations, security, business processes, and workforce data.

Responsibilities

• Independently design, build, and support custom People tools, applications, and services.
• Develop agentic workflows and People capabilities for Nscale's shared employee agent, taking emerging models and AI tooling from experimentation into production.
• Build integrations and automations across Workday, Greenhouse, and adjacent systems, connecting employee lifecycle processes around authoritative data sources.
• Partner with Security and Corporate Engineering on reusable access services for applications and agents, enforcing user permissions and business approval requirements, and capturing audit evidence.
• Make technical design and build-versus-buy decisions through shared architecture and security reviews, accounting for existing capabilities and total cost of ownership.
• Own delivery from design through business acceptance, release, evaluation, and ongoing support, retiring redundant tools and manual processes as capabilities mature.

Skills

Independent shipping

APIs & data flows

AI agents development

Workday integrations

Security & access

Tools

MCP protocol

Enterprise integrations

Job description

Nscale is building an AI-native People function. As a People Systems Engineer, you’ll own design, tooling, and delivery of custom tools and integrations that connect Workday, Greenhouse, and adjacent systems to support a global workforce.

You’ll experiment with frontier AI capabilities, develop agentic workflows, and ensure secure, permission-aware access while collaborating with Security and Corporate Engineering to scale our platform responsibly.